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David Young
David Young serves as the senior minister for the North Boulevard Church of Christ in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He has worked for churches in Missouri, Kansas, and Tennessee, taught New Testament at several universities, and travelled widely teaching and preaching. He is the former host of the New Day Television Program, a board member for the Renew Network, and the author of several books, including A New Day (NB Press), The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, (Fortress Press, co-authored with Michael Strickland), A Grand Illusion (Renew Publications), and King Jesus and the Beauty of Obedience-Based Discipleship (Zondervan). He holds the B.A. from Freed-Hardeman University, the M.A. from Harding School of Theology, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in New Testament from Vanderbilt University. David and his wife Julie have two married children.
Saving Christian Education
In their important book, Mission Drift, authors Peter Greer and Chris Horst describe numerous organizations that have veered from their Christian roots into a secularism that undermines their founding ideals. The stories are sad: non-profits, ministries, foundations, and even businesses that once started with the passion of the gospel have often ended up betraying the...
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Home Alone: Surviving the Pandemic for Married Couples
So, the shelter-at-home order was fun for three or four days. Movies every night! But the fun is over. The pandemic with its shelter-at-home order is now dragging on, and you’re getting really tired of it. Now, in the middle of the strains of economic insecurity, isolation from friends, rampaging children, blaring screens, mounting bills,...
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The Holy Spirit Is Doing What the Holy Spirit Does
Have you heard that Christianity is on its way out? Don’t believe it for a second.
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What to Do When Your Child Stops Believing (Part 2 of 2)
(If you haven’t yet, you might want to check out Part 1.) So, your teenage or twenty-something child is showing signs that faith in Jesus is no longer significant in their lives. Either she has told you that she no longer believes, or he has simply stopped taking Jesus seriously. How do you respond? #1...
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What to Do When Your Child Stops Believing (Part 1 of 2)
When he was about fourteen years old, my son, Jonathan, sat me down and told me that he had lost his faith in God. I was hurt, but I wasn’t surprised. After all, he had not shown much spiritual interest in several years. He suffered from depression and had been painfully lonely since we moved...
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Harding Commencement Address (Part 2)
We make disciples. Or we’re only singing half-tones. It really is that simple. Of course, this begs the question of what we mean when we say “disciple.” As you must already know, everyone has their own definition of discipleship; the word is confidently used by every church from the Episcopalians to the United Pentecostal Council...
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Harding Commencement Address (Part 1)
Renew founder and board member, David Young, gave the 2019 commencement address to the graduating class at Harding School of Theology. The topic will interest Renew readers as it underlines our conviction that “Jesus’ final command must be our first priority.” Students, family members, faculty, staff: Thank you for the privilege of offering a few...
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Professor Mary Poplin, an Unlikely Convert
“If you are real, please come and get me, please come and get me.” She was an unlikely convert. A well-respected, tenured professor in an elite university, Mary Poplin had grown up in a left-leaning church. But all that remained from her early church faith were strong desires for social reform, spiritual experimentation, and personal...
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A Grand Illusion: How Progressive Christianity Undermines Biblical Faith
A GUIDE FOR EMBRACING BIBLICAL FAITH IN THE FACE OF AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM North American Christianity stands at a major crossroads. Hundreds of thousands of believers have begun to lose interest in apostolic Christianity: the faith of the Scriptures, the great…
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The Best Illustration of the Gospel That I Know
The good news of the Gospel is that though I’m an impure person, I’m declared to be holy in Jesus Christ. Let me summarize this good news using the best illustration of the Gospel that I know of. Joseph Serna served four tours in Afghanistan in the Special Forces, receiving three purple hearts. In the...
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Baptism: What the Bible Teaches
A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING BAPTISM AS A DEFINING COMMITMENT FOR DISCIPLES As church leaders, we see it on people’s faces — they want renewal. Baptism helps disciples and seekers find a renewed faith in Jesus and commitment to following him.…
The Illusion of Progressive Christianity
You know the scene: You’re taking a university religion course, and one of your assignments is to read sections of the Hebrew Scriptures. As you read through the first several Old Testament books, you notice how violent God appears to be: he sends plagues. He orders the death penalty for blasphemy. Sometimes he actually commands...
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