On Chastened Confessionalism

I’ve been reading along and along through The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Practice (Crossway 2012), edited by D.A. Carson and Tim Keller. Many of you may know that this volume brings together the excellent Gospel Coalition Booklets into a single volume. Anyway, I was recently reading Richard Phillips’ fine chapter “Can We Know the Truth?” Phillips makes many good points about...

On Scholarships and Church Membership: A Recommendation

I recently had a conversation with a young Southeastern Seminary student who was babysitting for us. I asked her what church she was a member of, and she mentioned that she attends Imago Dei Church, a new church plant pastored by my friends Tony Merida and Nate Akin. But then she confessed her membership is at her home church in Virginia because she receives a scholarship from that congregation. If she moves...

Between the Times Interview: On Being Baptist

I’m a founding contributor to Between the Times, the Southeastern Seminary faculty blog. The Between the Times website recently received a long-overdue update. You should check it out. In addition to the sharp new look, we’ve also added some new features, one of which is a series we’re calling “For the Record.” This will be an ongoing series where we’ll interview a SEBTS...

Pray for South Durham Church

This coming Easter Sunday, South Durham Church is officially launching in the Southpoint neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina. South Durham Church is a church plant being sent out from First Baptist Church of Durham. This plant has been in the works for some time, and this weekend, a core team of around thirty will begin gathering together every week under the leadership of lead pastor Adam Darnell. Adam is a...

Review of Godly Ambition

One of the most interesting books I’ve read in recent months is Alister Chapman’s Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement (Oxford University Press, 2011). Godly Ambition is the first scholarly biography dedicated to Stott, who was arguably one of the two or three key leaders within global evangelicalism during the second half of the previous century. I wrote a review of Godly Ambition...