If you answered no or had to think about your answer to that question, then you obviously need to get out more. And, perhaps expand your circle of friends. There are other things I am tempted to write, but that will have to suffice for now. In light of the recent politicization of the pulpit…
Modern Baptists, Religious Liberty & Forgetting History
Most Baptists — including Baptists of the Southern (or Great Commission kind) — have never heard of Elder John Leland. I first heard of John Leland when I had the privilege of serving on the Religious Liberty Committee for the Baptist General Association of Virginia during my tenure as Pastor of Grundy Baptist Church in…
No to Pulpit Freedom Sunday & Political Endorsements!
This Sunday, October 7, approximately 1,400 Christian pastors across the United States will participate in the 5th Annual “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.” The event, created by a group known as the Alliance Defending Freedom, began in 2008. According to the group’s website (here): The goal of Pulpit Freedom Sunday is simple: have the Johnson Amendment declared unconstitutional…
Calvinism, Connections & Cronies in MBTS Search?
“Good ol’ boy is an American slang term that can have both positive and negative meanings, depending on context and usage. . . . It can be used as a pejorative term, referring to someone who engages in cronyism among men who have known each other for a long period of time. Collectively these people…
Free Speech, Anti-Muslim Movies & “P**s Christ”
During a week in which the President of the United States stood before the morally corrupt body known as the United Nations and used a video (that no one has seen) to apologize for and appease Radical Muslim savages who assassinated the American Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans; in a week that the producer of…