Luther’s Dying Words are True: We are Beggars.
We’re beggars because the words of man will never fill our spiritual appetite. We need food from heaven. We need to hear from God.
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4 Reasons Why It’s Important for a Pastor to Know Himself
Until heaven, our motives will never be as pure as they should be. But how can we know if they are carnal unless we first know ourselves?
How Can Pastors Combat Conspiracy Theories in Their Church?
The enemy would love God’s people chasing abstract and far-fetched untruths rather than sharing the good news of the gospel with their neighbors.
What Was the Most Important Lesson I Learned in Seminary?
Oddly enough, the more knowledge I gain, the more rarified intellectual air tends to fill the inner balloon that is my ego. But these words are a deflating pin: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
If Justification Is Once-for-All, Why Do I Need to Keep Repenting?
Praying “Forgive us our debts” isn’t just a duty we have as sinners; it’s a privilege we have as sons.
Your Eschatology Has Consequences
How you live now is correlated with how you believe God is working towards eternity.
Religious Liberty Made Me a Baptist
Religious liberty implies a recognition that individuals make conscientious decisions to participate in group associations that have different requirements and different callings than the rest of society and the state. In my view, these truths lead one inside the walls of a Baptist church.
Five Myths about the Church
The church needs a clear definition of its nature before it determines and actualizes its functions and activities.
Fear Being Liked
Being liked is the currency of our social relationships, seen in everything from the unspoken gravitation toward one person over another at a party to the digitized tokens of attention we exchange on social media.
Pastors Should Have Friends within Their Churches
Isolation and loneliness are common struggles for even the most extroverted pastors, and they remind us that those called to shepherd God’s flock need ministry too.
Do You Have Enough Faith to Be Kind?
When we fail to be kind to brothers and sisters in Christ, we are failing to trust God in some way, perhaps his power to change hearts or the sufficiency of his Word.
4 Ways to Make Church History Come Alive for Your Bible Study Group
If you’re someone who loves old books—because you love church history and want others to share your enthusiasm—group Bible study can seem like a balancing act between trying to be helpful on one hand and appearing prideful on the other.
God is Sovereign in Salvation and That’s a Beautiful Thing
Disputed and disdained though it may be, predestination and its sibling, election, are plainly taught in Scripture and every exegete must make peace with it.
Interview: 40 Questions on Pastoral Ministry with Phil Newton
I hope my journey’s biblical, theological, historical, and practical reflections will serve pastors for years to come.
Eight Types of People Churches Should Send to the Mission Field
If you wouldn’t put the would-be missionary on your church staff—assuming you had the funds to do so—don’t put them on a plane.
Forming Evangelical Pastors: Theological Education from the Margins
If the social pressures against historic Christianity do increase—as I expect they will—pastors and ministers will need a deeper doctrinal foundation, one that enables them to effectively catechize and instruct congregations embedded in a neo-pagan West.
Young Pastor, Your Ministry Heroes May Be Right There in Your Church
We should all be Timothy and Paul. That is the Kingdom of God. Disciples making disciples and the faithful learning from the faithful.
Dear Church: Jesus Is God, So Please Don’t Call Him the First and Greatest Created Being
In life we can be confused about many issues and not know many things, but to be confused about who Jesus is and what he has done and to not know him as Lord and Savior is a life and death issue.