pastors

Recently, during a public conversation with SBC 1st VP, Dr. Lee Brand, I had the opportunity to share what I think pastors in rural churches can do in the current tumult of the Southern Baptist Convention. I thought I would share these thoughts in writing as an...

Is church membership a manmade idea or is it really biblical? In this short post, we'll consider just one text. Peter told pastors in his first epistle to “shepherd the flock of God that is *among you*.” (1 Peter 5:2) There is a lot there we could unpack but let me...

Boy. Guess I sort of tipped my hand right there in the title, didn't I? I mean, unless you stumbled upon this post because you thought I was about to make the case that Bigfoot really does exist. Well, I'm not. He doesn't. Neither does the Loch Ness Monster. And...