My wife used to be the director of a crisis pregnancy center and I’ve known a bazillion evangelical friends who have fostered and adopted, so the “evangelicals are only pro-birth” argument doesn’t persuade me.
Do you know who heaven’s true heroes are? Women who still trust Christ despite being abused and threatened by a rich, powerful, and famous man claiming Christ’s name.
For every church that basically worshipped a former President today, millions of churches preached the gospel, celebrated the incarnation, and baptized new believers; and the only political statement they made is, “Jesus is Lord.”
I am non-negotiably pro-life and anti-abortion. Since I registered to vote at age 18 and cast my first ballot, I have never voted for a pro-choice or pro-abortion candidate. It's a deal-breaker.
Every week a pastor does the work of
• a journalist, writing a 2500 word essay
• a speaker, delivering a 35 minute speech
• a teacher, preparing and teaching lessons
• a therapist, counseling people in crisis
• a coach, training leaders
• a manager, scheduling staffing
If you think that “the real pro-life work begins now,” you haven’t been paying attention. Christians have been adopting, fostering, and serving women in crisis pregnancies for decades.
Livi, 6, at dinner: Dad wasn’t today your day off?
Me: yes, but I ended up working on some stuff
Livi, to everyone else at the table: Dad betrayed his day off, like Judas betrayed Jesus
Why would a book targeting two of the most fruitful church planting pastors of the past 25 years (Keller and Greear) resonate with so many? Because some evangelicals believe our world is a battle field full of enemies more than a mission field full of neighbors.
There so much bad news and griping on Twitter, but I want to celebrate with an update: I’m currently only 50 pounds away from hitting the goal of losing 30 pounds I set in May 2020.
A stunning testimony from sports commentator Nick Wright on navigating the dark moments without God: “At times like this, when there’s an inexplicable tragedy, you’re almost flailing about…Why? Why?”
Refusing a vaccine because God gave you an immune system to protect your body is the same logic as refusing a helmet because God gave you a skull to protect your brain.
The irony of a Christian rejecting religious liberty is that it undermines confidence in the gospel by communicating that the gospel isn’t powerful enough to win the hearts of people in the public square if other religions are allowed to function.
These are the questions one south Asian church asks candidates for baptism. Remember to pray for our brothers and sisters who risk it all for the name of Jesus (Hebrews 13:3).
Billions of people don’t have Jesus or clean water or enough food, but let’s build a life-size Tower of Babel to teach people to hate a made-up summary of Critical Race Theory.
Among the many other problems, this clip espouses a borderline prosperity gospel of parenting: “If you parent your kids rightly, they will behave rightly.”
Christians must hold two things together:
1. Neighbors who suffer from gender dysphoria are made in God’s image and deserve respect, love, and compassion
2. Transgender ideology is evil and actively and catastrophically harms those neighbors
Nine years ago, after Trayvon Martin was murdered, my generation of white, evangelical pastors and Christians could have chosen to lean into justice and to listen to our black brothers and sisters. But we choose our blind spots, our preferred politics, and, ultimately, ourselves.
If you don’t believe the testimony of a decades-long member and leader, an elder so trusted that he was tasked by the other elders to do an internal review, who do you believe other than yourself and your own assumptions?
I appreciate the calls for the SBC to unite around the mission. But saying we should ignore the slanderous movement that is pushing women like Beth Moore and pastors of color from our network is a bit like saying, “Let’s ignore this cancer and just focus on getting healthy.”
I know that
@Eric_Conn
knows the answer.
It’s the cross.
But Eric now espouses a newfangled theology of glory, and I’m not sure the cross fits into it.
Doubling down on Christian nationalism in 2022 when our society is less Christian than ever is sort of like 2006 Blockbuster video doubling the price of DVD rentals to make up for revenue lost to Netflix.
Did you know the Nicene Creed was actually written not with the opening “I believe” but “we believe”? The “we” matters. We are not pioneer interpreters of Scripture. We believe, together, with the Church through the ages.
The world is trying to disciple you.
Your favored news source is trying to disciple you.
Your social media feed is trying to disciple you.
For hours every day, you are being discipled by these voices.
Let the Word disciple you. Let the Word be louder than the world.
After my first read-through of both Voddie Baucham’s and Owen Strachan’s books, I’m convinced that these books are stoking aggressive divisiveness in churches. To be fair, they think they’re defending truth, but I believe that they’re actually dividing the body of Christ.
Growing up in California, I saw firsthand how John MacArthur’s voice and influence was unfortunately more divisive and unhelpful than edifying for many churches. I also find the emerging hero-worship of him to be quite unhealthy.
@William_E_Wolfe
It’s not a woke mob. It’s the testimony of a trusted elder who had been a faithful member and leader for nearly two decades, who was trusted enough that he was tasked by the other elders with doing an internal review. They just didn’t like his conclusions.
Me in 2013: we should pursue ethnic unity in diversity
Evangelicals in 2013: yeah, duh
Me in 2021: we should pursue ethnic unity in diversity
Evangelicals in 2021: uh oh he’s a woke lib
We need to stop bundling racial justice and LGBT+ issues together. The culture does this, but we cannot. Racial justice is biblical. So are historic sexual ethics.
@albertmohler
Dr. Mohler, I have tremendous respect for you. The President who unleashed mayhem is the same man you said wasn’t fit to be President in 2016 and then endorsed wholeheartedly in 2020. We knew this was his character all along.
I met my wife at SBTS 20 years ago. She’s not a pastor, and she never will be, but I guarantee she’s a better leader than all the dudes calling out this post.
Notice the language of “extinction.” What goes extinct? A “species” or “kind.” So he implies that “whites” are a distinct “kind” or “species.” That’s literally racism 101—and it’s wrong biologically, and wicked biblically.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Matthew 18 doesn’t apply to confronting the public words and behavior of public figures. Public acts allow for public response.
Why would NRB fire a level-headed spokesman for making sane, gracious comments about the vaccines? The NRB board is full of execs from Salem Radio, which boasts folks like Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and Lou Dobbs.
I appreciated Adam Greenway affirming emphatically that the seminary Presdients’ statement on CRT did not intend to deny the reality of systemic injustice. I am also grateful for his apology and asking for forgiveness of black brothers and sisters.
#SBC21
At the local historic black Baptist church I attended today, Christ was highly exalted, Scripture was clearly exposited, and the gospel was passionately explained. My heart grew three sizes today, and I’m grateful.
Here’s where I want to be as a Christian.
If you lose orthodoxy, you lose the truth.
If you lose orthopraxy, you lose the way.
If you lose orthopathy, you lose the life.
In other words, if you lose any one, you lose Jesus.
The current effort to “smoke out the woke” will reveal a few who have betrayed orthodoxy, but will end up wrongly accusing many, many more faithful brothers and sisters.