A German Language Christian Webcast
My dear friends in Frankfurt are doing their own webcast (they say they were encouraged by the DL to do so), so if you are a German speaker, make sure to give them a listen and a thumbs up!
Inerrancy, Pragmatism, and Why I am Voting for Mike Stone for President of the SBC
I have been asked this question numerous times over the last few months. Usually it is attached to another question like this, “Since Al Mohler shares your reformed theology, why … More
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Obedience Must Be Sincere
We must aim at the glory of God in it. In the Christian religion, the purpose is everything. The purpose of our obedience must not be to stop the mouth of conscience or to gain applause or success, but our purpose must be to grow more like God and brin…
Russell Moore and the Canaanization of the SBC
Regrettably, Russell Moore’s departure from the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has come with public scandal. Moore has written a letter to his … More
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Be a Radical: Count Your Blessings
Woke up this morning with a tune from my youth stuck in my mind. A song I haven’t sung in at least 40 years I’d say. Yet there it was, the whole chorus, clear as day: Count your blessings, name them one by one; Count your blessings, see what God hath done. Count your blessings, name them one by one, […]
3 Reasons Complementarianism Is a Missions Issue
Christian love across lines of differing convictions are essential to the missionary task of the church. To make disciples of all nations invariably involves flexing, adapting, and bending to an … More
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One of the Earliest (and Clearest) Summaries of Early Christian Beliefs
A common claim among critics of Christianity is that early Christian doctrine was a bit of a mess. What we believe now—about the incarnation, divinity of Jesus, etc.—was a late development within the early Christian movement. And, so the implication go…
Benjamin Beddome with Jason Montgomery Pt.3
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yadci-103c2e6 Jason Montgomery’s short bio from his church’s website: What a joy it is for me to serve as the pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church. By God’s great grace, along with several other precious brothers and sisters in Christ, we started FCBC, December of 1998. I did my graduate work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary […]
Benjamin Beddome with Jason Montgomery Pt.3
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yadci-103c2e6 Jason Montgomery’s short bio from his church’s website: What a joy it is for me to serve as the pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church. By God’s great grace, along with several other precious brothers and sisters in Christ, we started FCBC, December of 1998. I did my graduate work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary […]
Book Review: The Enneagram Goes to Church by Todd Wilson
The Bible says, “See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, and not according to Christ” (Colossians 2:8, LSB). The church for …
Church Splits
When an atom is split, its overall mass is reduced and a tremendous amount of energy is released. The results, graphically demonstrated by the two atomic bombs that ended World … More
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The Privilege and Duty of Prayer
Prayer is both a spiritual privilege and duty of the Christian. It is the breathing-out of the soul its praise to God and its requests for the things perceived as necessary for one’s own life or the life of others. Prayer is a great privilege. The beli…
What Is the Point of Life?
Since the Christian source of truth is available to all and has not changed in thousands of years, it is a consistent place to seek meaning in life.
Fathers: Don’t Neglect Spiritually Feeding Your Family
One of the most basic thing that every parent should be doing is making sure your kids are well fed. I mean who can mess that up. Okay, maybe some of you have done that and you feel terrible about it. You tell the kids you’re sorry and make sure you ma…
Justin Peters Interviews Former Word of Faith Preacher, John Samson
John Samson, pastor of King’s Church in Peoria, AZ , was a Word of Faith preach until God delivered him from that false teaching and embraced the Biblical Gospel. In this video, Justin Peters interviews him about his time in that movement.
Interested in Getting a Biblical Counseling Degree without Moving? You Can Do It at @RTSCharlotte
This past April, I spoke at the TGC Women’s conference in Indianapolis. I also spent a good bit of time talking to women at the RTS booth about their hopes and dreams for ministry education.
I was asked repeatedly about which degree program would be h…
The SBC and Practical Atheism
What is Practical Atheism? In Ephesians 2:12 Paul gives five truths of what the Ephesian Gentiles were like before coming to Christ. The final truth in that text is that … More
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Benjamin Beddome with Jason Montgomery Pt.2
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gj4kc-103c2b5 Jason Montgomery’s short bio from his church’s website: What a joy it is for me to serve as the pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church. By God’s great grace, along with several other precious brothers and sisters in Christ, we started FCBC, December of 1998. I did my graduate work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary receiving […]
Kyle Whitt Goes on the Record with Significant & Specific Concerns about NAMB
Kyle Whitt has released a video with several specific and distressing claims about the doctrinal fidelity and inner workings of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board discovered during his two years working to plant a church in Washington state. From Whitt’s Reddit post: For the past two years I’ve been working with NAMB […]
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A Lesson from the Conservative Resurgence in the SBC: The Need for Honesty
I attended my first annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in 1979 in Houston, Texas. I was pastoring a church 90 miles from there & had just enrolled … More
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Sinclair Ferguson on the Importance of Christology
“We all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us one and the same Son, the self-same perfect in Godhead, the self-same perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man … acknowledged in two natures, unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inse…
Committed to Truth
As he stood before Pontius Pilate, Jesus of Nazareth faced a question which has echoed throughout the centuries: “What is truth?” (John 18:38). That moment in history, recorded by John … More
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What Exactly Is “Sola Scriptura” Protecting Us Against?
One of the foundational convictions of the Reformers was, of course, this doctrine we call Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone). Simply put, this is the belief that the Scriptures are the highest and most ultimate authority in the life of the Christian.
C…
Benjamin Beddome with Jason Montgomery Pt.1
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wctjd-103c25d Jason Montgomery’s short bio from his church’s website: What a joy it is for me to serve as the pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church. By God’s great grace, along with several other precious brothers and sisters in Christ, we started FCBC, December of 1998. I did my graduate work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary receiving […]
Thoughts and Notes on SBC21
Messengers from churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention are set to convene in Nashville, TN June 15-16 to conduct the business of the nearly 48,000 congregations that voluntarily cooperate … More
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45+ Truly Pro-Life Quotes
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” -President Reagan
Lessons in Marriage: “It’s Not About Me”
In fifty years of marriage, I have learned many lessons. One lesson I’ve had to learn is that “It’s not about me.” Our Lord said: “It is more blessed to … More
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Why Didn’t My Pastor Tell Me About That?
It’s one of the most common questions I get when I talk with Christians who are struggling with what they believe. They’ve stumbled across some problem in the Bible or some issue raised by critical scholars and they don’t have an answ…