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Get More Creative. Watch The Beatles in Action.
Lessons and learnings from watching the world’s most popular band at work.
‘Gotcha’ Sermon Clips Are Bad for the Church
I just don’t see how the ministry of the church is strengthened by showcasing bad examples of preaching on social media.
Spiritual COVID and Losing Your Taste for God
Thoughts on losing taste and smell, and what it means when spiritually we find it hard to “taste and see that the Lord is good.”
3 Simple Ways to Flatten Your Neighbor
It’s easy to flatten our neighbors into rigid categories, without care and consideration, nuance or grace, and thus betray a Christian view of humanity.
Why Roe v. Wade May Not Make It to 50
Why I’m cautiously optimistic that the landmark abortion case may soon be reversed.
What OxyContin Reveals About Structural Sin
The gospel is the answer to both individual and institutional sin.
Work Out Your Body . . . and Your Soul
To be a well-rounded individual, to be people of depth and insight, we must pursue working out in three dimensions: body, soul, and mind.

Church Health

Do Churches Really Discipline for Non-Attendance? A Brief History of Four Baptist Churches
Baptists disciplined for non-attendance because they believed attendance was part of the covenant obligations of church membership. Here’s a brief history.
Pastor, Your Time is Purchased
Pastor, your time is purchased so that you can lead your people in helpless faithfulness.
When a Pastor’s Child Strays
I write not as a mere observer or sympathized, but as a father and a pastor who prays for his own wayward children. How desperately I long for them to embrace the faith they were taught.
Did Unreached Peoples Set Paul’s Mission Agenda?
Paul wanted to reach the unreached. This was a matter of urgency for him, as it should be for our churches. But was that Paul’s primary motivation in missions? Perhaps … keep reading…
“A Hedging and Fencing”: How Charles Spurgeon Promoted Meaningful Membership
This work of “hedging and fencing” is what keeps the church distinct from the world. And as the pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon saw it was one of his chief duties.
Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah . . . Oh My!—Practical Help for Preaching Longer Books
I hope the following eight “tips” will help preachers delight in the Scriptures as they prepare to preach—and persevere!—through its biggest books.
Confessing the Faith: The Place of Confessions in Church Life
So in 2021, in a largely unchurched and post-Christian European country, why make confessions a regular rhythm in church life?

Evangelical History

Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet – An Interview with Bruce Gordon
At Easter 1525 the Reformation was formally instituted with abolition of the mass and the celebration of a new Reformed order of the Lord’s Supper. Zurich had formally left the Roman church.
The Golden Rule and the Writing of History
“If the problem with Christian historians used to be hagiography (making our religious heroes into uncomplicated saints), the danger today is hamartiography (making our religious opponents into unmitigated sinners).”
The Time Martin Luther King Prayed at the Billy Graham Crusade
Here’s what Martin Luther King prayed when Billy Graham invited him to speak at his NY crusade, seven months after the bus boycott ended in Montgomery.
Evangelical Worship: From War to Mosaic?
A new, challenging, and charitable study of the recent history and congregational experiences of evangelical worship
What the Lord’s “Imminent” Return Means
An explanation from A.T. Pierson, arguably the foremost missions advocate of the late nineteenth century.
Carl Trueman and the Evangelical Mind
There have always been Christian voices defending gospel truths in the groves of academe.
Southern Baptists and the Founding of Israel
A new book that anyone interested in Baptist history or American views of Israel should definitely read.

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