I was raised in a large Southern Baptist church in Houston, Texas. I was educated in Southern Baptist institutions. I was ordained in a Southern Baptist church. Coming of age in the 1980’s I remember well overhearing the discussions at…
The latest edition of the Mortification of Spin is up and running: Author and blogger Aimee Byrd joins your regular hosts Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt to talk about a perennial issue throughout the life of the church: abuse. Though…
The latest Mortification of Spin is up in which we are joined in the Underground Bunker once again by Aimee ‘Dueling Banjos’ Byrd, one of the founders of the recent Reformed Chick Lit. movement which looks set to become a…
The latest Mortification of Spin is up in which we are joined in the Underground Bunker once again by Aimee ‘Dueling Banjos’ Byrd, one of the founders of the recent Reformed Chick Lit. movement which looks set to become a…
In the introductory article to this brief series, we marked out the limits of our study, namely that we are considering how individual believers, in their various spheres, might faithfully communicate the saving truth to those around them still lost…
On today’s Mortification of Spin podcast Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt invite me to discuss a topic that is widely ignored in the church, probably because it is so hard to handle: verbal abuse in marriage. This is really just…
In the month of November I will be preaching through the book of Ruth. I love this little book nestled between Judges and 1 Samuel. Between those two books, which record such large accounts of prophets, kings, and conquests, Ruth tells the story of…
Once in a while I get free books in the mail. I love to promote the ones that are soundly scriptural. Thankfully, I just received two I want to mention. I also would like to publicize a special deal on…
Whether we are prepared to admit it or not, most of us have ‘celebrity pastors,’ or at least men to whom we offer a measure of unqualified and uncritical appreciation or even adulation. We go beyond that properly Berean spirit…
In 1996, leaders from Reformed and Evangelical churches in America gathered in Cambridge, Massachusetts to issue a call to reformation. They published The Cambridge Declaration, expressing concern that “churches today are increasingly dominated by the spirit of this age than…
