“I want to put a stone in his shoe. All I want to do is give him something worth thinking about. I want him to hobble away on a nugget of truth that annoys him in a good way, something he can’t simply ignore because it continues to poke at him.” Greg Koukl Dr. Gary Habermas has … Read more
From Jim Fletcher: ” One popular technique is to label such critics as “Pharisees,” “legalists” or some such pejorative label. Witness this frequent technique employed by key evangelical leader Ed Stetzer. The president of LifeWay Research, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources (the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention) comes across as a winsome, dedicated, … Read more
/2016/02/05/beth-moore-predicts-god-will-unite-all-sectors-of-christendom/Beth Moore recently wrote a post at her Living Proof Ministries, apparently fed up and perhaps feeling the heat of being criticized. The precipitating event, according to Moore, was the criticism received from a 22 year-old woman [who happens to be a pastor’s wife and member of #the15] who called her a false teacher. In … Read more
In a sermon seemingly designed to defend their strip-mined ecclesiology and rebuke whatever number of actual disciples who might be left in the audience of 8 thousand people, David Hughes – pastor of the Southern Baptist, Church by the Glades – calls those in his church who desire to be taught doctrine “the excrement of … Read more
I’m sure that most of you are familiar with the terms “seeker-sensitive” or “seeker-friendly” to designate a certain category of church. The term is ubiquitous in circles like those in which the Pulpit & Pen runs. It is used of a gamut of churches, from entirely heretical Lakewood Church in Houston and milquetoast Six Flags … Read more
It’s deer season in Montana, and it’s with no small annoyance I have to come in from the woods and make a rare and brief return to writing on the P&P (now faithfully manned by my contributors) to answer a volley of rebukes sent in my direction by American Vision‘s Joel McDurmon. My regular routine … Read more
I recently had the opportunity to check out a local Church bookstore. Perusing their selection got me thinking; What is the purpose of a Church bookstore? Apart from being a small source of revenue, which undoubtedly must be the secondary or even tertiary purpose, I would have imagined that it would be a place where … Read more
I want to teach in a Church one day. In fact, I’ve already prepared a sermon for you all to see. As one who has listened to thousands of sermons in my life I believe I’ve found the key to be able to condense the vast majority of the sermons I’ve listened to and boil it … Read more
This is the panel discussion at the 2014 Reformation Montana Conference with Voddie Baucham, Phil Johnson, Sye Ten Bruggencate, Justin Peters, Chris Rosebrough and JD Hall. Topics include the family, apologetics, Sye Ten Bruggencate’s apologetic methodology, purging church membership rolls, confetti cannons and other topics of interest. The audio is available in today’s episode of … Read more
Audio from the 2014 RefMT Conference will be posted here and at the Reformation Montana website. Audio will be up early this week. Video will be made available in a few weeks. Thanks to everyone for attending, many of whom came from all over the country and some, out of country. Thank you to our … Read more
The exhaustive schedule for RefMT2014 for June 19-21 has been released via the RefMT website. Thursday 1:00-200 Registration 2:00-2:50 Chris Rosebrough 3:00-350 Justin Peters 4:15-5:00 Sye Ten Bruggencate 5:00-6:45 Supper 6:45-7:45 Justin Peters 8:10-9:00 Chris Rosebrough Friday 8:00-9:00 Registration 9:00-10:50 Voddie Baucham 1015-1045 Sye Ten Bruggencate (breakout) 11:00-12 Phil Johnson 12:00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-2:50 Voddie … Read more
Tullian Tchividjian has made waves recently amidst what seems to be a coerced departure from the Gospel Coalition. More than just the grandson of celebrated evangelist Billy Graham (I won’t hold that against him), Tchividjian is a celebrated theologian and is considered more than just an up-and-comer, graduating the status of up-and-came several years ago. … Read more
Many of have taken issue with Steven Furtick in recent years. Pointing out Furtick-level pastoral narcissism has been common fare on a number of popular podcasts. I’ll assume you haven’t actually made your habitation under a rock and that you’re aware of the Furtick controversies; the increasingly scary cult mentality of Elevation Church as it … Read more
* This photo is from the Arkansas Baptist State Convention annual meeting in 2002, taken by ABSC employee Ricky Lee. I was asked to speak because of my work in church planting. In Synergism Tomorrow’s post comparing me to Fred Phelps (yes, you read that right), someone who I don’t know except for social media, … Read more
Unless you’ve been sitting under the digital equivalent of a rock for the last couple of weeks, then you’ve most likely heard the news that popular megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll, of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA, has been accused of allegedly plagiarizing the work of several other authors in his most recent book … Read more
