American Evangelicalism is in crisis. Now you know why the Southern Baptist Convention must affirm the Nicene Creed: “Only 11% of American adults, and only 16% of self-proclaimed Christians, believe in the trinity.” Arizona Christian University arizonachristian.edu/wp-content/upl…

Romans 12: 9-11 ..Have a blessed Day!

‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak’? (Nu 24:13) A commitment to faithfully proclaim God’s Word should be the goal of

I have had some great friends who believe and honor the Word of God, love Jesus and people well, and have a true pastoral call. I don’t know who is at the top of the list, but I know Steve Bezner is on the top shelf. Godspeed, my friend!

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One of the sad changes in our theology over the last century and a half has been a subtle change FROM *casting ourselves on God’s mercy and trusting him to accept us TO *seeing salvation as us accepting God. This change moves the focus from Him to us—in other words it is not He

Today, I was working from home. A technician (J_) came by to install a part (Amy was out). He was a nice guy, a veteran. I got to visit with him a bit, thanked him for serving, and I was able to share some snacks and a soda with him. I felt a strong urge to pray for J_ . I asked

This 🧵 is excellent (as are most musings from Malcolm Yarnell). It seems to me that Evangelicalism’s (and the SBC’s) unreasonable resistance to affirming historic creeds leaves them untethered from and unaccountable to the historic faith in dangerous ways. This produces all

A life lived in faith toward God is a powerful call for us to endure. Today I preached the funeral of a dear friend and valued team member at WHMI.org. Her life demonstrated what endurance and unwavering faith in Jesus look like. In truth, she had already preached

An unspoken promise of Christian community is that we will bury one another, grieving but full of hope.1 In doing so, we remind ourselves to preach the gospel in word and dead while we are alive so our community has ease in declaring it when they lay us to rest.

Brothers, if we need to let folks know we are pastors so they will know we follow Jesus, we have a problem… And if folks know we are pastors and can’t see us follow Jesus—we have a BIG problem.

In a world filled with anxiety, you could do something to help: “Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.” —Pr 12:25

I am so thankful for folks like my friend, Laila Mickelwait. By God’s grace she and ofhers are pushing back against unspeakable darkness… and winning.

I’ve lived long enough to see there are things I didn’t think precious soon enough but they were/are and things I thought were precious as a young man that never were. If you are young, I hope you will see this—the sooner the better.

In the Doctrine of God, we describe God as simple, meaning He is one nature—not divisible. This one nature manifests in all the divine attributes (love, mercy, justice, holiness, etc.). So to study the nature of God in any aspect is to consider Him in His fullness—His nature