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For the Sunset of Summer: A Summer Reading List for 2021

"Everyone has a book in them and that, in most cases, is where it should stay." I did not often agree with the late Christopher Hitchens, but he was probably right in that assessment. We may only read a fraction of the number of books we would want t ...

July 30, 2021

The Way Forward for the Southern Baptist Convention: A Very Personal Word from Albert Mohler

Southern Baptists will soon be gathering in Nashville, and the one big question looming over the Convention will be this — how do we move forward? This meeting comes as several issues have been building in intensity for years, while others have er ...

June 2, 2021

Common Conviction, Cooperative Commitment, and Common Sense — The Southern Baptist Convention and the Future

Southern Baptists will soon meet in Nashville for the 2021 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The annual meeting is expected to draw thousands of messengers from our churches and an abundance of national attention. Serious issues will be add ...

May 26, 2021

Women Pastors, Women Preachers, and the Looming Test of the Southern Baptist Convention

"Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea." That was the message the prophet Elijah heard from his servant. Then, "And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain." That's the wa ...

May 10, 2021

They’re Coming for Oral Roberts University, and that Means They Are Coming for You, Too

Will Christian colleges survive? Will colleges and universities that hold to historical biblical definitions of gender and sexuality and marriage be forced into the academic wilderness? What about American collegiate sports? Will conservative Christi ...

March 25, 2021

Pivoting to Surrender: A Warning for All Christians

Your vocabulary word for the day is, “pivot.” According to the Oxford Languages Dictionary, pivot can be used as a noun, meaning, “The central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.” As a verb, pivot means, “To turn, as if ...

March 4, 2021

Abortion – The Central Sacrament of the Political Left

This past Friday, January 22, 2021 marked the forty-eighth anniversary of one of the darkest days in the history of the United States. Forty-eight years ago, the Supreme Court handed down the decision known as Roe v. Wade, and abortion on demand was ...

January 25, 2021

A Properly Sentimental Season: Celebrating Christmas from the Heart

This time of year, Christians celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a time of joy, thanksgiving; a time with family and friends. Indeed, it is a time filled with worship as we remember that glorious gospel truth: “The Word became flesh ...

December 23, 2020

A Commitment to Truth: The Twentieth Anniversary of the Baptist Faith & Message

The year of our Lord 2020 must not pass into history without reflecting on the fact that this year marked the twentieth anniversary of one of the most significant events in the history of American Protestantism -- the conservative revision of the Sou ...

December 18, 2020

Vaccines and the Christian Worldview: Principles for Christian Thinking in the Context of COVID

Americans of my generation remember the incredible sight of the first human footprints on the moon. In 1969, the Unites States celebrated one of the greatest technological achievements in human history. The Apollo 11 mission took man into space, land ...

December 14, 2020