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The Babbling Pastors

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RSS Kingdom People

  • Trevin’s Seven
    Links for your weekend reading.
  • The Good and the Bad of Losing Cultural Christianity
    As we cheerfully embrace the opportunities before us, let’s not be blind to the challenges we will face and the beauty we will lose as the sunset of cultural Christianity fades.
  • Evangelicals Weighed and Wanting?
    Let’s hope that in the days ahead, if the world finds us intolerable, it will be for all the right reasons.
  • Trevin’s Seven
    Links for your weekend reading
  • Christianity’s Public Witness: Not Just a Red State Problem
    What if some of the concerns voiced about Christianity’s public witness are motivated by embarrassment at evangelicals who are insufficiently docile toward elite secular opinion?
  • Are Tattoos Worse Than Adultery?
    A debate between Tanzanian and American Christians can illuminate a better way to explore disagreement.
  • Trevin’s Seven
    Links for your weekend reading.

RSS Church Health

  • Finding Elders in Immigrant Churches
    As pastors faithfully shepherd those in their care and train new leaders, Christ will continue to make sure his church is supplied with more leaders who are eager to equip the saints for the work of ministry.
  • What’s in the Water?: Baptism as a Sign of Addition (Part 3)
    The Word led to baptism, which led to a defined worshiping community, and as people were baptized, they were “added” to that community. That’s what Luke is teaching us.
  • What’s in the Water?: Baptism as a Sign of the New Covenant (Part 2)
    We’ve now explored the various invisible realities to which baptism points. Most preeminently, we we discussed the nature of the new covenant as a regenerate community.
  • Five Reasons to Pastor an Old Church, Even With All Its Problems
    Starting a new church is exciting, especially when compared to taking an established church with all its problems.
  • What’s in the Water? — Combatting Superstition and Sentimentalism with Scripture (Part 1)
    If we’re going to get baptism right, we need our thinking and practice shaped by Scripture. That’s why at my church our elders recently entered a study about baptism.
  • Baptists and Calvinism: Lessons from Sprague’s Annals of the American Baptist Pulpit
    Just like today, Baptists were in the nineteenth century were a “big tent” denomination. Differences persisted, but they were handled with charity.
  • Our Church Wants a Plurality of Elders, But We Don’t Know Where to Start
    Transitioning to a plurality of elders is an urgent topic—for both planters and pastors who don’t yet have this structure. Why? Because the quality of your elder plurality determines in large part the health of your church. It really is that important.

RSS Evangelical History

  • A Guide to Choosing a Christian College
    Christian parents and students should move beyond rhetoric to see what a school’s Christian commitment means in practice.
  • How to Counter Anti-Evangelical Hostility
    Clickbaity hostility to evangelicals is everywhere. How do we respond?
  • A Modernist Christian Nationalist: John Wilsey on John Foster Dulles’s Faith
    Historians are to be truth tellers, not judges.
  • When Martyn Lloyd-Jones Confronted a Pastor Who Loved Controversy and Denunciation
    Martyn Lloyd-Jones was convinced an orthodox ministry can be spoiled by a wrong spirit with wrong methods.
  • Why American Church Membership Is Plummeting
    And why we should take religion polls with a grain of salt.
  • Alvin Plantinga on “Fundamentalism”
    The term is often deployed as a lazy slur rather than a serious argument.
  • Denominations: To Leave or Not to Leave?
    Churches, and the denominations they compose, are highly imperfect things, because they are filled with people like me.
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