Photo by Piron Guillaume on Unsplash A year ago I had a procedure called a craniotomy. What is a craniotomy? Here’s a short definition: A craniotomy is the surgical removal of part of the bone from the skull to expose the brain. Specialized tools are used to remove the section of bone called the bone flap. The bone…
When I chose to preach through Ephesians this year, I knew there would come a time where I’d need to walk our church through tough texts. For instance, I knew Ephesians 5:22–30 was in front of us. You know the passage, right? Paul calls the Ephesians to live wisely in an unwise and evil world…
Some friends and I were recently out for dinner and were talking about how to guard ourselves from sexual immorality. We were mourning the latest report of a ministry leader who had fallen into sexual sin and spent much of the evening discussing ways to keep ourselves pure. As that conversation lingered in my mind…
This past week Beth Moore tweeted the following: “Oh man, there’s bouta be a fight. I love this.”—Beth Moore. Someone jokingly responded and asked if she was watching the NBA Finals or taking a shot at the Southern Baptist Convention. I’m pretty sure Mrs. Moore was talking about the NBA game on television at that…
Photo by London Scout on Unsplash Today is Mother’s Day. Here are three facts you should know about the holiday and about mothers in America (original post can be found here): In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation that officially established the first national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers. Many individual states celebrated Mother’s…
*This is a short excerpt from the full document attached. For a defense of our position (below), read the paper here: Should Wives Submit to Abusive Husbands – (Joint Statement) At the beginning of this paper, we need to make clear the context and aim of what follows. In recent days comments by Paige Patterson, the…
How do you get to this point? That was the question my wife and I asked ourselves one night. We were just married, had just began ministry in the church and everything was fresh and new and exciting. Yet we were also experiencing at that time a close-up view of several pastors who had either…
