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Nathan Finn is offering some no-punches-held suggestions for fixing the SBC. See here and here .

With all the talk among my Southern Baptist friends about shoddy SBC record keeping, inflated rolls, and "false conversions," it...

Recently, Berten A. Waggoner, National Director of the Vineyard family of churches, issued a statement describing the new position that the...

9Marks has just released two good interviews. Fred and Elizabeth Catherwood, daughter and son-in-law of D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, offered refl...

One thing has always troubled me. I’ve from time to time been in conversations where the question is asked: “What about Joe? He’s a really g...

I thought "Weird Al Yankovic" was retired! But the man who brought you "I'm Fat" (a spoof of Michael Jackson's ...

John Piper helps us confront this question with Jesus' words. (HT: JT , Z )

This Sunday I have the privilege of opening up Eph. 2:1-10 to the saints at FBC. What a tremendous passage! Though I've had occassion to...

Yesterday I reviewed CT's list of the 50 books that have shaped evangelicals over the last 50 years and posted my reactions here . Last...

I've enjoyed two posts in the last couple of days. Those were Al Mohler's reflections on books and what they tell us about a person...

Yesterday I mentioned 39 things that really encourage me as the pastor of FBC. That's an odd number to end on, so let's make it an...

That's Nathan Finn's assessment. He lists why he sometimes wants to leave the SBC but continues to stay in the neighborhood.

My beloved brother in Christ, friend, and mentor C.J. Mahaney frequently encourages Christians to look for "evidences of grace" in...

This morning my wife read to me a devotion from Susannah Spurgeon that captured my heart and prayer. I thought I'd share with you this...

Yesterday was awesome. The Lord's grace and kindness was so abundant as we celebrated our new lives together as church and pastor during...

Several years ago, I moved to Washington, D.C. to begin work with a public policy think tank. It was a privilege to work on public policies ...

Thoughtful: Brother Michael Leach offers an interesting look at pastoral theology, the centrality of the Scripture, and African American ch...

Lig and Mark at T4G have posted some helpful and encouraging words over the past couple of days. Lig quotes Spurgeon on the warfare of pas...

This weekend, I trust, will be a special one. I have the great privilege and honor of being installed as the senior pastor of First Baptist...

In this series of posts, I've maintained that the defining feature of nominal Christianity is that it blurs distinctions. It blurs disti...