SBC

What Can Rural Church Pastors do in the SBC?

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...

Making Baptist Great Again: The Path to a Conservative Resurgence in the SBC

This blog post is reworked from a sermon preached on June 13, 2021, at Perryville Second Baptist Church. You can listen to that message here.  An Exposition Ephesians 2:19b-20 says, “you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built...

Baptists and the Christian Tradition: Towards an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity (book review)

Baptists and the Christian Tradition offers ample material contributing to the conversation of what it means to be an evangelical, committed to the church catholic.

Latitudinarianism and the Southern Baptist Convention

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 point to make. And I understand that latitudinarianism is probably not a word you casually mention much over coffee.  But I’d like to take a quick trip in church history,...

A Review of By What Standard

A Review of By What Standard

In mid-December 2019, Founders Ministries released the CineDoc By What Standard? God's World...God's Rules (watch for free here). I considered doing a tweet thread with my thoughts, but think by the time I'm finished, it'll be a bit much for Twitter. This will not be...

The SBC’s 7,000

The SBC’s 7,000

In 1 Kings 19 the prophet Elijah thought he stood alone before the Lord as the last faithful man in all of Israel. In v.18, however, God reveals that there are more faithful people than just Elijah – a lot more: “I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees...