What Does Jesus Think About Year-end Giving?
As a pastor, some of the best (and most challenging) questions I get from people don’t have chapter-and-verse Bible answers. No one ever...
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Nov 13, 20234 min read
How Could a Good God Send Someone to Hell?
This is an excerpt from a book I’ve got coming out in a few weeks, 12 Truths and a Lie: Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s a...
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Oct 23, 20234 min read
Isn’t the Bible’s Morality Outdated?
This is an excerpt from a book I’ve got coming out in a few weeks, 12 Truths and a Lie: Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s a...
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Jul 12, 202313 min read
A Time to Come Together: The Unintended Effects of the Law Amendment
In 2010 Nancy Pelosi urged Congress to pass all 828 pages of Obamacare regulations just minutes after it had been posted, before anyone...
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Jun 6, 20237 min read
How Should We Think About Disfellowshipping Churches In the SBC That Have Women as Pastors?
Next week, more than 12,000 Great Commission Baptists will be in New Orleans for the SBC Annual Meeting. I will be one of them. Every...
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Jul 5, 20223 min read
What Will Our Resurrection Bodies Be Like?
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul doesn’t fully answer our questions about the resurrection, but he gives us the basic parameters for how to...
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Mar 14, 20223 min read
When Should I Not Take Communion?
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul says, “Let a person examine himself … for whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will...
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Nov 29, 20213 min read
What Church Unity Is … and Isn’t
In churches that are reaching unchurched people, there are always going to be issues of unity. Because they reach across political lines,...
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Nov 22, 20214 min read
The Anatomy of Doubt and the Answer to Doubt
The following article by David Platt is reposted with permission. The original, “Battling Our Doubts: Learning from John the Baptist,”...
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Nov 16, 20214 min read
Four Reasons Church Discipline Is Actually Loving
In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul rebukes the church in Corinth for neglecting to discipline those among them who were still stubbornly, willfully...
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Jul 12, 20214 min read
Is Jesus Wrong … Or Do You Just Not Like Him?
When Jesus drove out a mute demon and the man spoke, “the crowds were amazed. But some of them said, ‘He drives out demons by Beelzebul,...
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Mar 4, 20204 min read
The Church, Money, and Awkwardness
You know what’s awkward? Talking about money. You know what’s really awkward? When the pastor starts talking about money. Talking about...
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Feb 7, 20202 min read
The Evils of Prostitution, the Power of Reading Aloud, and Why Every Place Is the Same Now
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Jan 31, 20202 min read
A Loneliness Epidemic, Turn Off Your Notifications, & Tips for Reading the Bible (Even When You
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Dec 20, 20192 min read
Power Disparities, Adoniram Judson’s Spiritual Descendants, & Can We Trust the Gospels?
We’ll be taking a blogging break for Christmas, and will see you again Jan. 6. Enjoy your Christmas and New Year’s! Wisdom for Your...
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Oct 11, 20192 min read
The Gospel of Marx, Child Porn in the U.S., & Preparing for the 2020 Election
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Sep 27, 20192 min read
Kanye’s Conversion, Drag Queen Story Hour, & Today I Hate Foster Care
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Sep 20, 20192 min read
Phone Conversations, Our Hispanic Brothers and Sisters, & the Question Abortion Advocates Won&#
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Aug 28, 20194 min read
Three Ways We Go Wrong When Discussing Homosexuality
Historically, we in the church haven’t done a great job in conversations about homosexuality, and we’ve done an even worse job caring for...
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Aug 9, 20192 min read
Praying for Survivors of Mass Shootings, This Racist Evil Age, & Religious Liberty in the U.S.
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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