6 Obstacles to Revival
W.B. Sprague’s 1832 work, Lectures on Revival, is a helpful book in thinking trough the subject of...
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Author: Allen Nelson IV
The Drunkenness and Repentance of Brother Johnnathan Osburn
I have a book I received as a gift from Plum Creek Baptist Church in Taylorsville, KY. This book...
Read MoreAugustine vs. Pelagius
The Debate In the 5th century — the early 400s — there was a controversy in the church between two...
Read MoreA Primer on Jacob Arminius, John Wesley, and Charles Finney
Jacob Arminius and John Wesley Jacob Arminius (1560-1609), in response to William Perkins, wrote,...
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A Case for Confessions of Faith
Recently I read through a little over half of James Bannerman’s classic tome, The Church of...
Read More5 Reasons People Don’t Believe Certain Truths from the Bible
In teaching on the doctrine of regeneration recently, I was thinking through explanations on why...
Read MoreCounseling Awakened Sinners and Recent Converts
I had the privilege recently of reading William Buell Sprague’s 1832 book* Lectures on Revivals of...
Read MoreThe Loveliness of Christ
Jesus is lovely. In Song of Solomon 5:16 the Bride says to Solomon, “he is altogether...
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The Preaching Killdeer
My Grandparents and I – 2003 Growing up in rural Arkansas I had many opportunities to walk...
Read MoreWhat Does my Son Think of Church?
Last Wednesday my wife had a bit of a toothache from a recent filling and so I offered to take our...
Read More7 Ps for Better Preaching
Anyone who faithfully preaches God’s Word always desires to grow in his ability to...
Read MoreA Book of Numbers: What the 2019 SBC Annual Church Profile Data Tells us About the Southern Baptist Convention
The 2019 annual church profile for the Southern Baptist Convention came out recently and the...
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When God Brings the Sun Burn
Here’s an old sermon outline that I touched up for a blog post. It’s from Jonah 4:5-11. It has to...
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Pastors, Plagues, and Playing Games
In my GBTS class on ecclesiology the other night, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson told us the story of John...
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4 Conversion Stories
John Wesley I disagree with Wesley on several important doctrinal points. But consider how he...
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9 Reasons to Depart from Iniquity
Today’s post has my name on it, but I didn’t write it. Rather, we turn to our friend...
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When Providence goes Viral
I wrote this post while there were still quite a few unknowns about COVID-19. President Trump had...
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Spurgeon: God is Good and God is Sovereign
God is good and sovereign! The following is taken from Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Sermon...
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Why Spontaneous Baptism Sunday is Not a Good Idea
Here I am, a Baptist writing a post against baptism. But actually, this post isn’t actually...
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The Aim of Shame
I don’t buy the argument that says Americans are worse today than we were 50 years ago, 100...
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Why so Many Almost Christians?
George Whitefield once preached a message on Acts 26:28 entitled, The Almost Christian. In...
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You Must be Born Again: Make Regeneration Great Again
In God’s kind providence, it was a biblical understanding of the great doctrine of...
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5 Reasons a Historical Adam Matters
Did a man directly created by God out of the dust named Adam really exist in history? Did he...
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Latitudinarianism and the Southern Baptist Convention
Really, part of me is just going for blog title of the year. The rest of me, however, does have a...
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Meeting Jesus, Missing Heaven
Is there a more alarming passage in the Scriptures than Matthew 7:21-23? As He is concluding the...
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