A New Look

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Clark Bunch

It’s been a long time since I tweaked the design. A good piece of advice I was given early on, and continue to give others, is to find a good theme that works and leave it alone. Without going in to a whole bunch of details, this format should be wider on your screen and more visible. The other was a little narrow.

One of the things we had to loose was the code in the sidebar for a link button. The source code below creates a button that links back to The Master’s Table. Simply copy the html and paste in a post or sidebar text to add the button to your blog.

<a href="https://themasterstable.wordpress.com"><img src="https://themasterstable.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/last-supper4.jpg?w=128" alt="Go to The Master's Table" title="Go to The Master's Table" width="128" height="53" /></a>

Take a look around, let me know what you think. Except for a few minor adjustments this should be about it.

One Person’s Testimony

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Clark Bunch

We’ve all heard stories of a single vote that decided the fate of an election, or remember the lesson of the Knight Rider: One person can make a difference. But have you ever been alone in a crowd when it comes to Christian faith? Even if no one says anything negative, the temptation is to clam up about anything religious, to simply go with the flow. Can one believer really make a difference? Continue reading →

Happy Monday

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Clark Bunch

Hello friends! I had a busy week (and one very, very sick day) and blogging was just not a part of it. Here’s a short Happy Monday post, and hopefully we’ll be getting back to our regularly scheduled programming. God is good all the time, all the time God is good.

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The picture below was taken in north-west Georgia as Samaritan’s Purse workers leave their mark during relief efforts following a recent tornado. If you have to have a stump in your back yard…

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Happy Monday

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Clark Bunch

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Fred Luter’s Call for African-American Missionaries

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Clark Bunch

Fred Luter with Tom Elliff

Fred Luter is the first African-American to serve as SBC president. But of the 4,900 missionaries serving the International Mission Board, only 27 are African-American. That’s only 1/2 of 1%, despite the fact that 1 million of the SBC’s 16 million members are African-American. There are far more Hispanic and Asian missionaries in the field, and Luter would like to promote change.

“A lot of our African American churches are in the ‘hood,” said Luter, who pastors Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, La. “It’s a daily fight every day. [People ask me], ‘Why do I need to go to Africa, Asia or Europe? We need to get people saved in this community.'” “It’s a both/and approach,” Luter said. “We need to reach the people in our neighborhoods and get African Americans out on the foreign field.”

Read this article in full at Baptist Press.

Do Unto Other Bloggers…

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Clark Bunch

Coffee with Jesus – Doable

I was reading a list of blog writing tips on Chief of the Least, and he ended by asking for additional advice. I jotted down what I consider the usual for the beginning blogger, then stumbled onto something profound: stats are people too. Continue reading →

Happy Monday

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Clark Bunch

As a public service to our guy readers, you have three shopping days left.

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A Short Lesson About Reading the Bible

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Clark Bunch

There’s an old saying about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. The key to understanding scripture is context. If you quote half a verse to support any argument, the first thing I’m going to do is go find the whole verse, then read the whole paragraph. We need to know who is writing, to whom, and under what circumstances before applying any particular verse to our situation.

There are always critics of religion in general and of Christianity in particular that insist religion was invented or the Bible was written to control people. Roman emperors used religion to build an empire, Medieval kings used it to build wealth and add territory, and Christians today use scripture to justify everything from suppressing women to persecuting homosexuals. Sadly, to some extent, each of those arguments have some merit. Emperor Constantine made the switch from persecuting Christians to embracing Christianity in order to defeat the enemies of the Roman Empire. I think we should blame Rome for that, not Christ. The problem with the Middle Ages is that the vast majority of Europeans were illiterate. If the kings and knights of Medieval Europe could have read the Bible for themselves, they would not have been so easily manipulated. Thank God for Gutenberg, am I right? Which brings us to today. Continue reading →

A Lesson for Those Who Serve

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Clark Bunch

Church people are notoriously bad tippers. This is certainly not news to me, and I consider myself something of an expert. I worked at Shoney’s while in high school, Chick-fil-A during college, and am today an ordained minister. With much apology I realize the above statement is true. The worst case I ever heard of was a church group going out on a Sunday afternoon following their morning service. After being served by the cook and wait staff, they informed the waitress they would not be leaving a tip because they believed it was wrong to work on Sunday. Let me repeat: AFTER they ate the food the cooks worked to prepare and the waitress worked to serve, they told her it was wrong to work on Sunday. That’s the opposite of sharing the Gospel. If those are really your convictions what you should do is NOT eat out or shop on Sundays.