Conferences, Podcasts, and Piper on Sovereignty: A Reply
W. Jackson Watts I was recently listening to some online sermons that were given at the Gospel Coalition’s 2019 National Conference. All of the speakers were household names, and none more familiar than John Piper. Piper is now retired from active pastoral ministry after decades at Bethlehem Baptist…
Clergy Sexual Abuse and Church Polity
Matt Pinson Recently my colleague Dr. Darrell Holley sent me a link to an article in First Things by Dale Coulter entitled “Evangelical Apocalypse.” The article is primarily about clergy sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention reported by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. It might…
Teología Evangélica: A Review
Thomas Marberry One of the books that I enjoyed during 2018 was Pablo Hoff, Teología Evangélica, Tomo 1/Tomo 2 (Miami: Editorial Vida, 2005). Hoff has ministered in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. He is a graduate of Taylor University, the Winona Lake School of Theology, and the Northern Baptist…
Theology for Life and Ministry: William Jeffery on Predestination in Romans 9
Matthew Pinson I was recently reading a book by the seventeenth-century English General Baptist preacher William Jeffery, The Whole Faith of Man. This book is a summary of Christian doctrine published in London in the 1650s that hasn’t been in print since the 1600s. The book is not…
What Preachers Can Learn from Tom Brady: Part 3
by W. Jackson Watts (Part 1 and Part 2 of this article appeared earlier on our site. They can be accessed by clicking on the hyperlinks). Committed to the Team (Collaboration) Over the last year or two, news outlets have reported several times on a friction in the…