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Big Time Pastors and Unaccountable Elders

The latest Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit is now online. Aimee Byrd and I talk about rich pastors of their great big houses. Specifically we talk about the dangers of pastors being treated as rock stars and elders unaccountable to the congregations…

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Sunday’s Sermon

On Sunday I began a series of messages through the book of Ruth. The first message, entitled “The Road to Nowhere” is available HERE.

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I am a single issue voter

To be a single-issue voter is often sneered at as being too simplistic or overly confined to an ideology. However, I would suggest that all of us are single-issue voters. Each of us have a line, that if crossed by…

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Take heed lest you fall

Sad news has come from Vision Forum in recent days. But, as David Murray points out, the resignation of Doug Phillips carries with it a sobering lesson for all of us.

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Overplaying the grace card?

I appreciate David Robertson’s review of Tullian Tchividjian’s new book One Way Love. Robertson gives voice to many of my own concerns about what I believe is a rising tide of antinomianism within the church, especially among the neo-Reformed. Robertson writes:…

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Overplaying the grace card?

I appreciate David Robertson’s review of Tullian Tchividjian’s new book One Way Love. Robertson gives voice to many of my own concerns about what I believe is a rising tide of antinomianism within the church, especially among the neo-Reformed.

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Those Rascally Calvinists

I have been encouraged by the resurgence of Reformed doctrine within the Southern Baptist Convention. I say “resurgence” because Calvinism in the SBC is nothing new. In fact the Doctrines of Grace are woven within the founding documents of the…

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Killing Children

It is a small leap from killing children in the womb to killing, say, two-year-olds (an idea already proffered by Princeton’s Peter Singer). Belgium is now considering a law that would allow children to be euthanized. This ought to outrage…

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The Constant Reader

I am excited to see the publication of Thy Word is Still Truth. “The embattled title casts this book as an apologia for Westminster Seminary’s stand in a recent internal debate. Yes, it is all of that, but it is…