Matt Smethurst
Lead Pastor of River City Baptist Church
Matt Smethurst is lead pastor of River City Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel (Crossway, 2025), Before You Share Your Faith: Five Ways to Be Evangelism Ready (10Publishing, 2023), Before You Open Your Bible: Nine Heart Postures for Approaching God’s Word (10Publishing, 2019), and Deacons: How They Serve and Strengthen the Church (Crossway, 2021). He also cohosts, with Ligon Duncan, The Everyday Pastor podcast. Matt and his wife, Maghan, have five children. You can follow him on Instagram or X.
What Does the Bible Say about Itself and Why Is That So Important?
Either he speaks, or we guess.
How not to read the Bible in 2018
January 1 is a new start when it comes to daily Bible reading, here are five suggestions for what not to do in 2018.
‘God plus’ or bust; lose the incarnation, lose it all
The doctrine of the Incarnation isn’t a hot topic in the circles I run in. I’ve seen little ink spilled over it. The mission of the church, the place of penal substitution, the role of women in ministry, and the legitimacy of multi-site? Sure. But not the Incarnation and two natures of Jesus. That’s why…