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This past week, the Southern Baptist Convention held its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. Among the agenda items completed during the session, one has proved as controversial as had been anticipated beforehand: Albert Mohler’s Truth and Unity Amendment. This amendment, which passed with more than ¾ percent of messengers voting in favor, ensures that churches in friendly cooperation do not “affirm, appoint, or endorse a woman serving in the office or function of a pastor/el

It has been a while since I’ve been able to add to the V1 Blog. Since March 2023, I’ve been enrolled full-time at Midwestern Baptist...

“Take heed, Father, not to change thy mind on account of us.”

Immense persecution was the common experience among Christians during the 2nd and 3rd Century. Roman Caesars and magistrates were...

As some of you know, a few weeks ago our Pastor at First Baptist Church of Pocahontas announced that he has accepted a pastorate at a...

For the past week or so, I’ve had a particular statement of Christ heavy on my mind. It comes to us by way of Luke’s gospel account: That...

On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. This essentially pushes abortion...

“Start somewhere, improve as you go.”

The last couple of months have been some of the most difficult weeks of my life— not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually as...

Ah, yes. We come to some of those detested doctrines of Calvinism: Election and Predestination. As we will see in the next blog, election...

After covering man’s depravity, the topic expected to follow is election since the U (Unconditional Election) comes after the T in TULIP....

In the last blog, I tried to give a biblical defense for the first of two highly contested conclusions Calvinists draw from Scripture...

The first two blog posts in this series were introductory; the first was intended to explain the purpose of the series, the second was an...

Depending on who you ask, you could potentially get wildly different definitions of a Calvinist. Some would say Calvinists are followers...

Calvinism was an unlikely and, frankly, an inconvenient theological persuasion for me to stumble into. Unlikely because the tradition I...

I’ve had a bit of a unique relationship with Christmas over the span of my somewhat short life thus far. I’d maybe compare it to those...

What would Christianity look like today if men hadn’t been endowed with boldness from on High? If men like Paul, enduring much suffering...

Genesis 37-50

Achieving Christian unity has been a goal of every true believer from the time Christ began building His Church 2,000 years ago. No real...

“…once God saves a person, that person is eternally secure…”