Gay marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage, but also parenting. It promotes and normalizes a family structure that necessarily denies us something precious and foundational. It denies us something we need and long for, while at the same time tells us that we don’t need what we naturally crave. That we will be okay. But we’re... Continue Reading

In one sense the nine marks of an unhealthy church could simply be the opposite of all that makes for a healthy church, so that unhealthy churches ignore membership and discipline and expository preaching and all the rest. But the signs of church sickness are not always so obvious. It’s possible for your church to... Continue Reading

You have not done wrong if people desire to hear you preach or read your books. If your preaching and writing are excellent and edifying for the church then I thank God for you. Keep up the good work. But remember that Big Eva is big business. No preacher, alliance, coalition, or ministry is too... Continue Reading

From the very beginning, the enemies of truth launched an effort to infiltrate and confuse the people of God by mangling the truth and by blending lies with Christian doctrine. Attacks against the truth regularly came not only from persecutors on the outside but also from false teachers and professing believers within the visible community... Continue Reading

Something about the assembled church requires particular behavior that is set apart from behavior in the rest of life. So while an individual Christian is the temple of God’s spirit and ought to behave in ways that are pleasing to him, the church gathered is, in a special and distinct way, the sanctuary of God’s presence,... Continue Reading

Proverbs 22:6 is a parenting scripture. It’s not a scripture about salvation. The scripture is simply saying that through consistent discipline you can train your children to behave. Herein lies the problem. Salvation does not come through obeying the rules. It comes by grace through faith. If your good works cannot save you, then your... Continue Reading

One of the greatest challenges for a pastor when he preaches is not his speaking ability (though it is important to speak well) or how accurate his exegesis of the passage was (though it is important to be diligent in the study). The greatest challenge for the preacher is the right managing of his own... Continue Reading

“Preach as if anyone will listen to your sermon, because they can. If your church is putting your sermons online, and your church has “Baptist,” “Bible,” or some other conservative marker in its moniker, know that people living far away might be listening for something they can protest.”   The lead story (above the fold)... Continue Reading

“How could something like this exist in our country given what seems to be the significant “racial progress” over the last fifty years? The sing-along song displaying unvarnished racial animus was sung by supposedly accomplished college students during the same week that the moving and emotional events memorializing the extraordinary courage of the participants of... Continue Reading

“Why is God so slow in making us holy? Think about it for a second. If God wanted to, he could have made us instantly perfect the moment we believed in Jesus Christ. Or, he could completely deliver us from our clinging sins in the blink of an eye.”   There are certain sins I’ve... Continue Reading