Written 1 September 2025: Yesterday was a month to the day that the Lord called my Ambrose to himself, and Ambrose listened because being with Jesus is better than being here. I preached yesterday, and I was going to include the following but decided to cut it from the sermon lest I steal the attentionContinue reading “Without the Resurrection, I’d be Sunk”
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Baptists: What Happened to Regenerate Church Membership? Part II
Many years ago, someone asked Dr. Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan this via Twitter: “Can a person be a Christian without being a member of a church?” Dr. Keller’s answer was, in essence, “Yes, but not an obedient one.” His answer was an important and instructive one. One can repent and giveContinue reading “Baptists: What Happened to Regenerate Church Membership? Part II”
Baptists: What Happened to Regenerate Church Membership? Part I
“If a sheep has strayed let us seek it; to disown it in a hurry is not the Master’s method. Ours is to be the labor and the care, for we are overseers of the flock of Christ to the end that all may be presented faultless before God. One month’s absence from the houseContinue reading “Baptists: What Happened to Regenerate Church Membership? Part I”
In Praise of Slow Growth
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” -Ferris Bueller Life moves fast, and we like it that way. We, by nearly every measure, are a people who want things quickly and feel shortchanged if anything takes too long. Why won’t the traffic light change?Continue reading “In Praise of Slow Growth”
The Bearded Ecclesiologian 