Blog Posts

  • Weary of “Well Done?”

    The words I hate to hear – “well done.” Don’t get me wrong, I love whenever I get the opportunity to eat steak with my wife. But it hurts buying her a filet mignon when she treats it like that. I’ve tried to convince her to stop using those words and to venture into a…

  • What’s to do Now that Easter is Over?

    What’s to do now that Easter’s over? But is it truly over, Scott?  Well, of course not. The knowledge of our Lord’s resurrection should always stay with us. But, all the festivities of Easter are now past. The weekend itself is behind us. The big event has happened. And so, what now? What should we,…

  • Baptists: “A Great Mass of Ignorant People?”

    Two hundred and fifty years after the first baptistic confession was penned by the seven London Congregations, the Southern Baptist Convention hosted a visiting English committee on American soil. As Southern Baptists gathered in Memphis on May 1889, John Broadus prepared to introduce this committee of English Baptists brethren to the messengers. Broadus, the president…

  • Elders and/or Pastors

    Southern Baptists are discussing the biblical and historical understandings of the word “pastor” today in ways that have direct implications for future cooperation among their numerous churches. A motion was made in the 2020 annual meeting in Nashville for the Credentials Committee to investigate the apparent ordination of female “pastors” within a cooperating and credentialed…

  • To be or not to be, exempt that is…

    Pastor, if you’ve not given much thought to how you will respond to a request for religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine, let this be your encouragement to do so. Here is a helpful article to aid your thinking and here’s why you should read it: It’s thoughtful As Christians, we can nuance problems and…