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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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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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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Mar 1, 20193 min read
Christians and Socialism, Wounded Churches, & the SBC’s Response to Abuse
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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Feb 22, 20193 min read
Answering Emails, the Danger of Insta-nostalgia, & Becoming a Church That Cares Well for Abuse
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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Feb 15, 20194 min read
Sexual Abuse, Southern Baptist Churches, and the Gospel
Earlier this week, the Houston Chronicle published a three-part series on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the...
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Feb 11, 20195 min read
700 Is Not the Total Number: How to Get Help
This article co-authored by Pastor J.D. Greear and Pastor Brad Hambrick. Yesterday the Houston Chronicle published an article entitled,...
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Jun 12, 20185 min read
Humility and Hope: My Prayer for the Southern Baptist Convention
This afternoon the Southern Baptist Convention voted to elect me as its 62nd president. I am at once honored and humbled to step into...
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Jun 7, 20186 min read
Looking Ahead to the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention
In just a few short days, I will be joining thousands of other Southern Baptists in Dallas, TX, for the SBC’s annual meeting. Our church,...
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May 25, 20182 min read
Brothers and Sisters of the SBC: God Is Trying to Get Our Attention
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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Apr 23, 20188 min read
Cooperating Together for God’s Mission
A lot can be lost in a single generation. Ronald Reagan famously admonished Americans that they had to teach the principles of freedom to...
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Apr 16, 20185 min read
Give Us Two Years, and We’ll Change the World
College students “discovered” the Summit in 2003. If I’m remembering rightly, it went something like this: One week about five college...
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Apr 9, 20184 min read
Proud to Be Southern Baptist, Committed Above All to the Great Commission
Most of the people in our church did not grow up Southern Baptist. By his grace, and in answer to our prayers, many of the 700 people we...
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Apr 6, 20182 min read
Martin Luther King, Jr., The “Good Part” of Old Age, & Calvinism in the SBC
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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Apr 2, 20187 min read
The Future Belongs to Churches That Send
A passion for missions lies at the heart of the SBC—and at the heart of God, too. Because our God is a God who sends, we are a people who...
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Mar 26, 20189 min read
Who’s Your One? Recovering the Primacy of Personal Evangelism
Intentional evangelism has always been a defining characteristic of Southern Baptist mission—and rightly so, because evangelism is the...
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Mar 19, 201812 min read
Racial Reconciliation and Cultural Diversity in the SBC
In theory, very few people in the American church are opposed to the idea of racial and cultural diversity. But experience would suggest...
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Mar 12, 20189 min read
Gospel Above All
This June, members from Southern Baptist churches around the country will come together for our annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. As many...
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Jan 30, 20185 min read
Why I’m Accepting the Nomination for SBC President
Two years ago, I accepted the counsel of several friends and mentors to have my name placed in nomination for the presidency of the...
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