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"What are you reading?" I've been hearing that question since I started out in ministry more than 19 years ago. In the begin...

"When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not s...

As I write, the clean-up from terrible storms that tore through the south three weeks ago continues. Two weeks ago when seeking to address ...

Does God know the future? Furthermore, has God declared the future? How much control does He actually exert over His creation? Questions of ...

This week, I'm at the Exponential conference in Orlando, the largest gathering of church planters in the world. As is usually the case ...

If you want to see tempers flare up quickly on both sides of a volatile issue, just start a conversation about illegal immigration. If ever...

This is my last installment on the subject of how to facilitate effective church planting in the Baptist Association. This post also covers...

Ideas, as Francis Shaeffer once said, have consequences, and this statement is never more true than when contemplating the result of promoti...

Former President Ronald Reagan had a particularly narrow philosophy when it came to the idea of government funding. He expressed it in thre...

Pastor Douglas Wilson correctly and graphically observed a couple of weeks ago that our culture is doing to sex what people who chew with th...

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been writing posts related to a presentation I gave to Directors of Missions at the NoBA conference ...

As I write these words, Senate Bill 116 is making its way through both houses of the Maryland legislature. Predictions are that both the Se...