My very first week at Bible Baptist, I started preaching series in Matthew and Exodus. Now, a year and a half later, I’m almost finished with Exodus and I’ve just reached the half way point in Matthew. I don’t say that to brag, I’m not trying to pass myself off as a noble expository preacher. [...]

While I was in college, on a date with my soon to be wife, we dropped into a used bookstore in Chattanooga, TN. While looking through the religious books, I picked up a copy of a book by Charles Spurgeon that I hadn’t heard of before entitled The Greatest Fight in the World. Annually, Charles Spurgeon [...]

This post is copied from my “Pastor’s Pen” blog at biblebaptistmattoon.org.  While I primarily try to write this blog about issues for fellow young ministers, my church blog is a place where I discuss philosophy and vision for Bible Baptist Church.  Whenever those two interests intersect, I will be posting them on both sites. The [...]

Last week, I posted about the dangers of exciting preaching.  (Please read that before this, as this post will seem very one sided if you don’t) This week, as promised, I want to counter with the dangers of intellectual preaching. While fundamentalism seems to be overrun with people who go to extremes trying to be [...]

In my last post on fundamentalism, I made this statement: In my opinion, every single problem that fundamentalism is grappling with today flows from our movement’s weak spot for charismatic speakers who refuse to limit themselves to “rightly dividing the word of truth”. We fundamentalists love our exciting preachers. Of course, each of us has [...]