Pure Church

A good friend wrote to me this past week with a good question. Actually, two good friends wrote with two good but different questions, both ...

Below are a few clips and bits that have been helpful to my soul over the last week or so.... Mark Dever on Ambrose baptizing Augustine : Am...

You all should meet Dave Jorge. He is the pastor of worship here at First Baptist Church, Grand Cayman. It is an honor to serve the people o...

Lord willing, I'll post a more substantive post later today. But I just had a Mars/Venus kind of experience with my wife and thought I...

While at the DG Pastors' Conference this past February, a young man from Advancing Native Missions pressed into my hands a White Horse...

One of the most striking passages in Scripture--among many, many that could be named--is Numbers 25. (I'll wait while you dig that one ...

Yesterday, I had the privilege of preaching a funeral for the grandmother of a former elder of the church, a man I count as a Barnabas to me...

Here are a few things, some trivial, some interesting I've been noodling on lately. 1. Melinda Doolittle was robbed ! Okay, yeah, I wat...

I've not known Dr. Mohler for very long, perhaps three or four years. I first met him during a visit to Washington, D.C. He spoke at a...

Equating gratitude and thankfulness in some ways seems to cheapen the more rarely used term "gratitude." We say "thank you,...

That's what my mother often says when she attends a funeral and hears all the nice things people say, or witnesses the deep grief of per...

Our deepest gratitude is to be expressed to Christ Jesus our Savior, who loved us, and gave himself for us, and purchased with His own blood...

Perhaps you've not met Jonathan Leeman. Perhaps you've never heard him preach, or you've not read anything he's written. T...

Learning to express gratitude hasn't been easy for me. And I'm certain I've not expressed enough gratitude to God for the people...

That question has been kicked around a bit. And, I know, there are as many unsatisfying or cloudy answers as there are people who think they...

Are Evangelicals disdained in the classroom today? The Washington Post takes a look at some research attempting to answer this question. O...

One would think that most baptists are "died in the wool baptists," by which I mean are knowledgeable about what baptism is and wh...

The new edition of 9News is out. This issue focuses on preaching. Check it out here . Two other resources you may find helpful from 9Marks...

Ryan Townsend is a dear brother that I got to know a bit while in DC. Since most of you don't know Ryan, here's what you need to kn...

When you pastor in the Washington, D.C. area or an area like Grand Cayman, you will see a lot of people come and go. Some places are really...