Whatever doubts I may have harbored about having recently fallen down an evangelical rabbit hole were completely erased by the announcement of a racially segregated meeting at the upcoming TGC Women’s Conference (TGCW18). “Women of Color” is being promoted as a “special evening of fun and fellowship” sponsored by…
I hate death. We tend to euphemize it with words like passed, departed or sleep. But while these may help lessen the emotional blow of its reality the truth is that death is a malevolent intruder that mocks both life and the Giver of life. The wise man understood…
Today a friend sent me this rarely viewed video clip of testimony from John Perkins and family members regarding a horrific event that took place in the deep South during the 1960s. Ferguson, Baltimore and now McKinney serve as stark reminders that our nation has a long way to go…
August 1 I loaded my 2001 Excursion with my wife, five daughters and granddaughter and headed to Texas for a month-long Sabbatical. My son and sons-in-law are maintaining the home fires until various members of our traveling party return intermittently over the next week or so. Being in Texas,…
In a previous post I made the argument that the Ten Commandments did not begin at Mt. Sinai. Today I want to go on to demonstrate that neither did they end at Mt. Calvary. Just as the Ten Commandments were not the revelation of a new standard of righteousness…
Since the beginning of my ministry as a pastor I have been committed to preaching the Bible expositionally. The main way that I do that is by working through books in the Bible verse-by-verse. Recently, in my exposition of Exodus, I have come to chapter 20, which contains the…
Dear Mr. President, I heard the news about the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday in a phone call from my wife. At that time, the details were still murky, but news reports were confirming several children had been shot by a gunmen at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. I watched…
Image Source I thank God for all the talk about the gospel among evangelical churches today. Granted, some of it can degenerate into trite jingoism and anomalous platitudes, but still, at least the necessity and centrality of the evangel is once again being recognized by believers who purportedly take…
A few days ago I was grieved to hear of the death of Ezra Blaize Kline, the 7 week old son of Justin and Rebekah and grandson of my dear friend, Ted Christman and his wife Diane. Ted is the founding pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Owensboro, Kentucky….
Over the last several years I have had multiple opportunities to reflect on the composition of the Southern Baptist family of which I am a part. I’ve seen that composition change significantly from 1978, when I began to pastor my first church, to the present. Gone are those who…