“For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you.” Titus 1:5 I am a student at a Southern Baptist seminary that is located hundreds of miles from the city in which I reside. Thankfully, distance learning options are … Read more
Last week, the Louisiana Baptist Message, an official publication of the Louisiana Baptist State Convention, posted an editorial titled “Does the ERLC Represent the SBC?” With a growing laundry list of concerns about the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC), it’s no wonder that more and more people are waking up to the damage that’s being … Read more
In a long stream of capitulation lately, especially in the Southern Baptist Convention, evangelicals have been salivating over the Roman Catholic presidential candidate, Marco Rubio. The ooze-fest, spearheaded by Russell Moore of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC), has led many into confusion over what Christianity is and is not. Moore has stated, despite … Read more
In a story Pulpit & Pen broke last week, Marco Rubio enlisted several prominent evangelicals to serve on Roman Catholic presidential candidate, Marco Rubio’s religious advisory board. These evangelicals are the well-known theologian Wayne Grudem, megachurch pastor at Saddleback, Rick Warren, and professor of history at Baylor University, Thomas Kidd. Grudem, Professor of Theology and Biblical … Read more
We’ve been reporting for quite some time now that evangelicals, especially Southern Baptists, have been fawning over staunch Roman Catholic (the one who knows and fully agrees with Roman Catholic doctrine), Marco Rubio. Many Southern Baptists have gone as far as to say they believe he is saved (See here, and here). The SBC’s lead … Read more
SBC Voices posted an article from William Thornton, with his picks for the Top 10 SBC News Stories of 2015. Such a list is subjective, obviously, but it was interesting to see a blog colloquially known in the Pulpit Bunker as SBC Echoes – the preeminent SBC peanut gallery – suggest their pics for “top stories” in … Read more
Free Speech Apocalypse, the new film from the prolific and always provocative Douglas Wilson, highlights the pandemic assault on free speech – and more importantly, free thought – in America. From college campuses to the press, Free Speech Apocalypse puts a magnifying glass on the ridiculousness of what Wilson calls ‘the totalitolerance brigade.’ As I … Read more
The Baptist “Press” reports Ronnie Floyd’s admonition to Southern Baptist pastors that a good vision can bring in the money. The President of the SBC (nominated by Albert Mohler and JD Greear for two consecutive terms), who happens to have a fire engine baptistry in his church that shoots confetti over the children’s church audience … Read more
Who is Andrew Rappaport? Andrew Rappaport is the founder and president of Striving for Eternity Ministries which, according to its website, is a “Christ-centered ministry focused on equipping people for eternity by assisting Christians to have an eternal perspective on life.” He is a Bible teacher, conference speaker, and former pastor. In addition to the self-published What Do They … Read more
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving…Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, … Read more
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 “God Spoke and BANG! It happened.” Wayne Barber “A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.” Fred Holye This post is the fourth in a series that addresses a list of “40 harmful effects of Christianity” that originated on … Read more
[Editor’s Note: Some P&P Contributors hold to the 1689 Confession, some are Calvinistic dispensationalists that do not, and one rowdy contributor isn’t even a Calvinist – the horror. We may not all agree on the sabbatarian nature of the Lord’s Day, but we would all like you to enjoy this day of rest and worship … Read more
THE STATE OF TENNESSEE VS. SCOPES In front of the Rhea County courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee there is a plaque that reads: “Here, from July 10 to 21, 1925 John Thomas Scopes, a County High School teacher, was tried for teaching that a man descended from a lower order of animals in violation of a … Read more
If you ask the average Evangelical church-goer today what the difference is between Protestantism and Catholicism, you’re likely to get a variety of answers. Some will tell you that Catholics believe in a works salvation, but many won’t really understand what that means. Others may tell you that Catholics worship Mary and Protestants don’t. But the overwhelming majority are likely to have no idea what the difference is, and this is rather disturbing. While many of these people will be able to articulate the Gospel, Catholicism is quickly becoming seen as “just another denomination,” with some strange twists. They are no longer being seen as the counterfeit Church, the ancient enemy of the Gospel that the reformers fought so hard and gave their lives to expose and separate from. The muddying of these waters is not unaccounted for, however, and it comes as no surprise, since today we have so many Evangelicals afraid to speak out against Rome, and fornicating with her in many ways.
…the International Mission Board (IMB) Board of Trustees voted to open new pathways of service by, among other things, removing previous restrictions that had been developed a decade ago. In 2005, the IMB BoT created restrictions to missionary service that included barring anyone from service who …had been baptized by immersion in a church that … Read more
