• Worldview Wednesday: Responding to Aaron Renn’s View of Complementarianism

    In reading Aaron Renn’s book Life in the Negative World, I was surprised to find him in chapter 11 declare Complementarianism an essentially bankrupt doctrine in light of the negative world. I find little disagreement with his assessments that egalitarianism and what he calls thin complementarianism will eventually fall in line with the culture. I

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  • The Road From Indy: Southern Baptist Convention 2024 Reflections

    Friends, the Road from Indy is one that includes a number of twists and turns. No matter what, missions is the destination that leads us to travel cooperation highway. God’s Word and His Spirit fuel our journey. Many off ramps will attempt to distract us and tempt us to abandon our journey, but redemptive accountability…

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  • Worldview Wednesday: Christianity is Cheerfully Binary

    Every day, I try to spend at least fifteen minutes during my devotional reading a book that will challenge me to think as a pastor and Christian. For the past few months I have been reading Rosaria Butterfield’s book Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age. On page 264 she says this “I realized that night

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  • Already Decided… SBC Annual Meeting 2024

    Jeff Iorg makes several cogent points in his article on the Law Amendment . Four stood out to me: From the standpoint of someone who has served in churches that fall on all sides of the women in ministry debate, I can agree that some might still be undecided. But for many the decision has

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  • This year’s SBC was one that I had not planned to attend, but in many ways, it is the phrase “Who Dat?” Which drove our family to attend the SBC 2023. That phrase, adopted as the rally cry for the New Orleans Saints pro football team, really identifies the entire city of New Orleans. The

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  • Message Monday: Getting the Order Right

    5Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished. 6By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil. Proverbs 16:5–6 (ESV) 16“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,

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