RHETT-orical: musing about Faith, Family, and Freedom

As I listen to pastors and authors around our country, as I read their blogs, and as I have been in pastoral ministry for more than a deca...

Robert Clinton, professor of leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of the well-known book The Making of a Leader , wrote an e...

Authentic expository preaching is marked by three distinct characteristics: authority, reverence, and centrality. Expository preaching is au...

This past Sunday, I gave all of our elementary school children a copy of the new resource from Lifeway called I'm a Christian: Now What...

Sonny Holmes wrote this great word after attending our home church's 50th anniversary celebration on Sunday.  It was so good I wanted t...

This weekend I am remembering with joy the church of my youth – Edwards Road Baptist Church in Greenville, SC. Tomorrow ERBC celebrates...

"The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching." —Albert Mohler

The following is a journal entry from 2004 . . . This past weekend we got Hendrix a “big boy bed.”   Dad and I had taken Mom-ee and Pa-...

If preaching is central to Christian worship, what kind of preaching are we talking about? The sheer weightlessness of much contemporary pre...

I enjoy using an iPad. It is, in my opinion, one of the most impressive devices yet invented. In one light-weight, travel-sized tablet the u...

1 Samuel 2:29-30 Life Lesson:     Living in God’s covenant means that we seek to honor Him.   A man of God brings a word in a setti...

Be careful about getting too concerned about being cutting edge instead of trusting in God's Word.  Bob Russell gives a good word to pas...

. . . continued from Ouch!  Pitfalls that will Keep us from the Promise - Part One. Pitfall Number Three – They did not trust God nor w...

I hear the lazy days of summer coming quickly to a close!  No, technically fall does not begin until September 22, but who really feels like...

1 Samuel 2:12-17, 27-36 Life-Lesson:          A heart that pleases God fears Him and fears sin.   Certain things, if not seen as lov...

A great fear has been at work in my mind and God has used it to arouse me to prayer.  I came across a man whom I knew years ago, a mighty ma...

Oh for a child's perspective. My eight-year old announces to me (most of this based on Wilson house rules), "Daddy, I want to tell...

"The elders who are good leaders should be considered worthy of an ample honorarium (Literally of double honor, or possibly of respect...

In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed on the vast inland of Mexico along with 600 Spaniards, approximately 16 horses, and 11 boats. The Span­ish co...

Here is part two of a great article from Focus on the Family's Thriving Pastor  to pastors about preventing burnout . . . In Part 1 of...

With the Supreme Court's gay marriage decisions all over the news, some Christian parents wonder how they ought to explain all of this t...

"We believe this is a wrong decision with far-reaching moral and religious liberty implications. With one stroke of the pen, this court...

Most church members give little thought to the amount of time it takes a pastor to prepare each sermon. In reality, sermon preparation is a ...

Ah, it does my heart good to see this picture of the campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in one of my very favorite cit...

Author Richard Louv believes that America’s children are now suffering from a syndrome he identifies as “nature-deficit disorder.” In his 20...

2 Kings 22 / 2 Chronicles 34-35   His name means “the fire of the Lord” or “Jehovah supports” Four-fifths of them were deficient...