The sex bullies have taken over the social sphere. Now you’re considered intolerant if you simply want to protect the innocence of a child in the classroom, or think that you ought to be able to teach your kids about the advantages of traditional marriage, or believe that men and women are different from each […]
Resist the Bullies, Part 3 The primary battle is a spiritual battle in the heavenlies. But this does not mean, therefore, that the battle we are in is otherworldly or outside of human history. It is a real spiritual battle, but it is equally a battle here on earth in our own country, our own […]
Resist the Bullies: Part 2 I have said repeatedly that the unspoken gay activist mantra is “We will intimidate and we will manipulate until you capitulate.” —Dr. Michael Brown1— Part 1 is available here. Last time2 we discussed five specific ways militant homosexual activists are bullying the public. They do not respect the democratic process […]
Resist the Bullies: Part 1 Leftists are not about live and let live. They are about wholesale control. Their movers and shakers see society as their project, and they can change everything and everyone through government and their domination of the culture. There is no live and let live in their bones. In view of all […]
In an article recently published at SBC Voices, Dave Miller, the pastor of a Southern Baptist Church in Sioux City, Iowa, contends that There is no shortage of voices in the SBC claiming that the end is near, that we balance on a precipice over the pit of destruction. I believe most of those voices […]
You can access all the articles in this series here. During the debate over the Sexual Abuse Task Force recommendations at the SBC in Anaheim, California on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Dr. Mark Coppenger appealed to messengers to vote against the task force’s recommendations for a variety of important reasons. Mark Coppenger addresses the SBC in […]
I’m starting to dread Anaheim. Every speaker is going to begin by saying this is a time for lamenting, a time for grieving, a time to repent in sackcloth and ashes. I’ve been grieving over sex abuse in our churches since 2003. I don’t need anyone to make a big show about it just because […]
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right. —Charles Spurgeon— When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people. —Jennifer O’Neill— Esse quam videri —Latin for “to be rather […]
Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding. Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment, But a man of understanding walks uprightly. The first one to plead his cause seems right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him. Proverbs 23:23; 15:21; 18:17 Key points: Is sexual abuse […]
Ed Litton, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, north of Mobile, has repeatedly plagiarized large blocks of material in his sermons, especially material from J. D. Greear. Ed’s been doing it for years, as well. Evidence has surfaced that even as early as 2015, pastor Litton was plagiarizing. He […]
We would like very much to have our leaders cease slapping down any Baptist who happens to love their country or have a political point of view that doesn’t comport with Critical Race Theory—that’s a small thing to ask, I want the Baptist in the pew to feel represented. I want him to not be talked […]
Are the seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention now promoting the social justice narrative? Unfortunately, the answer is yes—even at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where conservative icon Al Mohler is president. Screen Capture, SBTS website On December 28, 2019, Griffin Gulledge, Director of Marketing and Communications at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, […]
To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life. —W. A. Criswell— Key point: In crafting and contending for the adoption of Resolution 9, members of the 2019 SBC Resolutions Committee have inadvertently worked against the very […]
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end….It is when men have […]
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say. —T. S. Elliot— Key points: In a partisan vote on February 25, 2019, Senate Democrats killed a bill that would have ensured that babies who survived abortions would not […]
INTRODUCTION The blurring of clarity is the compromising of truth. —Pastor Jeff Kliewer— Key point: Tim Keller was a pastor and spiritual leader who is revered and respected by many. Even so, his reputation as an evangelical conservative is inconsistent with his track record of casting doubt on God’s Word through ambiguous and manipulative statements […]
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