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The Fleeting Pleasures of Sin

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. (Hebrews 11:24-25 ESV) With an interesting turn of phrase, the author of the heroes of the faith chapter in Hebrews […]

Freedom from Morality

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God […]

Will the Southern Baptist Convention Survive?

At the 2021 SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) Annual Meeting in Nashville last week, quite a few people wondered if the SBC, as currently established, would survive the great turmoil going on within its ranks. One friend said that the SBC would indeed survive, “but will we still recognize it?” Both are interesting questions. For those […]

The Chosen: Concerned but Keep Watching

There seems to be a debate going on in Christendom and I don’t mean Russell Moore’s scathing letter to SBC president Greear. I’m talking about The Chosen. The #1 crowdfunded television program ever. Written by Dallas Jenkins, scion of Left Behind’s Jerry Jenkins, wowed audiences, secular, and Christian in its first season. It was made […]

Does Abuse Absolve Adultery? A Response to Rachael Denhollander and Others

A PDF version of this post may be found here. On May 23, 2018, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary received the resignation of Professor of Missions and Cultural Anthropology David Sills. No reason was given for it publicly at the time. In a statement issued to the Biblical Recorder, SBTS President R. Albert Moher, Jr., wrote, […]

Will the House that Gwen Built Survive?

On Saturday afternoon, May 29, we began receiving emails and phone calls asking if we had heard that Gwen Shamblin Lara, her new husband, Joe (William J.) Lara, and five other leaders of Gwen’s church, Remnant Fellowship – Jennifer J. Martin, David L. Martin, Jessica Walters, Jonathan Walters, and Brandon Hannah – had gone down […]

Choices

All of us make choices every day. Most of our choices are mundane. “What shall I have for breakfast?” “What outfit will I wear to work/church/boating?” Other choices, though, have longer term and more far-reaching impact. Should I marry him/her? If I do, where will we live? Shall we have children? Choices. Many times, we […]

To Be or Not to Be Accountable

Often newly formed cults and/or high demand authoritarian groups which may be operating within the church claim they are trying to “get back to the New Testament church.” These groups have some vague idea that the first century church had an unadulterated uniform pristine faith. The church, they think, was error free under apostolic direction […]

Inappropriate Appropriation

Down through history the people of God have gone astray, not generally by directly repudiating God – at least at first – but by adding false gods, and pagan ideas and practices into the mix of their beliefs. Ahaz was the King of Judah c. 735–720 B.C. He acknowledged God and yet he “was the […]

When the Abused Become Abusers

No one with a modicum of cultural awareness could have missed the fact that in the past few years a rather intense media spotlight has been shined on all types of abuse—physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, etc. And nothing has served to more clearly train this spotlight on these subjects than the #MeToo1Wikipedia, “Me Too movement.” […]