Making musical choices — how do you decide what’s right and what’s wrong? The subject is full of controversy. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion,…
Our church lost two long time members this week. We gained two more widows. Heaven became just a bit more real. Byron and Flo had…
Have you ever been shipwrecked? Probably not. Have you ever been robbed? Maybe. Have you ever been stoned for your faith in Christ? Not likely.…
In 2010, I attended a funeral at Victory Baptist Church in the rural town of Whiteville, NC. I did not know then that in December…
Children must be discipled with care and devotion. A child is no less a citizen of God’s kingdom than their parents; they are not second-tier…
We’ve been working on a series about pastors and depression. We’ve discussed how the people of the church can come to the aid of their…
“Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” A few years ago our church, for the third time since I…
FrontLine — September/October 2018 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 5 Prove It! Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance…
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 We…
The thoughtful Christian is compelled to admit that in our time there is very little true worship of the Lord. We have our so called…
We’ve discussed the fact of depression in pastoral ministry and outlined some of its causes, both from the nature of the task and from the…
It rained last night just before church. It was beautiful. The temperature dropped into the low 70’s and the cool rains fell. After a long…
John’s six-verse letter to the Ephesian church in Revelation 2 gave several commendations to a fifty-year old congregation. They labored diligently for the cause of…
My phone rang, but the call was from an unknown number. The voice on the other end was a 25-year-old man named Daniel. He had…
English Standard Version Reader’s Bible. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2018. Reviewed by Don Johnson Just about a year ago I spotted Crossway’s ESV Reader’s Bible…
Ed. Note. In the most recent installment of this series, Pastor Sweatt discussed areas of pressure unique to pastoral ministry. In this post, he describes…
Chivalry died in the 1970’s, this week’s hearings prove it. Sexual harassment, assault, and abuse have been at center stage this week. One of the…
Another thought-provoking article popped up recently in the Theology section over at CT.1 The subject of this brief piece is clothing and its place in…
Rachel Mitchell will be questioning the Supreme Court nominee tomorrow. Some media organizations picked up an interview we did with her in 2012 for our…
The NT uses three corresponding words to describe this role of church leadership. Pastor The first word is pastor or shepherd, an overarching word God…
