Isn’t the Bible’s Morality Outdated?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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Apr 11, 20223 min read
Three Goals Every Church Must Have
Earlier this year, when the Winter Olympics were going on, I read about the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, the swimmer...
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Mar 7, 20223 min read
God’s Design for Sex
In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul wants to show the Corinthians that there is a spiritual dimension to sex because God made us a (here’s your...
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Aug 17, 20203 min read
Christians: Don’t Date Non-Christians
There are many purposes for marriage, but according to Jesus in Mark 10, the immediate reason God created marriage is the need for...
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Aug 10, 20205 min read
Six Characteristics of Gospel-Shaped Love
Jesus said the most defining characteristic of his church should be its love. Your love for each other, he told his disciples, is how the...
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Jul 6, 20205 min read
16 Chapters, One Theme: The Gospel Is Hope
The greatest Christian leaders for the last two thousand years have maintained that Romans is the most important theological book ever...
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Mar 25, 20202 min read
Love Your Neighbor: Stay at Home
On the heels of disastrous events, the gospel has unprecedented opportunity. When God has done the work of shaking their foundations,...
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Mar 17, 20204 min read
Lessons From My Last Lockdown
The following is an email one of our staff members shared with his team. It was a pastoral reminder about our role as church leaders...
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Feb 19, 20203 min read
Kick the Bucket List
One of the conversations I most dreaded having in my life was with my mom during my senior year of college, when I had decided God was...
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Jan 6, 20203 min read
The Foolishness of Pride
I once heard the story about an Army officer who had just been promoted to Colonel. He was feeling pretty high on himself and kept...
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Dec 16, 20193 min read
Your Religious Sincerity Won’t Save You
In the Apostle Paul’s day, there were 613 written, Old Testament laws that Jews strictly adhered to. If that sounds like a lot, it is....
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Oct 14, 20193 min read
The Scandal of Gospel Inclusivity
Salvation through Jesus Christ does not distinguish by ethnicity, economic background, education level, religious history, or moral...
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Aug 19, 20194 min read
Urban Apologetics: As Culture Evolves, So Does Our Approach
Here at the Summit, we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of...
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Jun 3, 20193 min read
Looking Forward to SBC 2019
Last year, after accepting the nomination for presidency of the SBC, I laid out my prayers for our Convention. One year in, as we prepare...
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May 28, 20193 min read
Will People Die for a Lie?
Sometimes we lose the mind-blowing shock of the Apostle Paul’s first-century conversion. The number one enemy of Christianity...
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May 22, 20193 min read
Four Reasons People Are Ashamed of the Gospel
What is it about the gospel that tempts people to feel ashamed? Even the Apostle Paul indicated that some people are going to feel this...
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Apr 15, 20194 min read
There Is Only One Kind of Sinner
We tend to see people in categories: the successful and the unsuccessful, the intelligent and the dull, the beautiful and the ugly, the...
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Apr 10, 20194 min read
Declared Righteous, All at Once
Imagine someone broke into your house and destroyed some of your most valuable belongings, and when they get caught and stand before the...
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Apr 8, 20194 min read
How to Ask Jesus to Be First in Your Life
In the conclusion of his letter to the church in Colossae, Paul expresses a desire to make Jesus and his kingdom first in everything:...
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Apr 3, 20194 min read
Five Things Religion (Apart from the Gospel) Produces
Religiosity is like this strange disease—when you have it, it makes everyone around you want to vomit. Even the Apostle Paul, in some...
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