Moore to the Point
By Russell D. Moore. Russell D. Moore serves as the teaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. In addition, Dr. Moore is the Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Find sermons and other resources to help Christians engage the culture from a biblical worldview at www.russellmoore.com.

Why Southern Baptists Say ‘Amen’ to Rosa Parks

— Friday, October 28th, 2005 —

Can a Southern Baptist mourn the death of Rosa Parks? Some, such as the liberal Baptist Center for Ethics’ Bob Allen, say no, since the activism of the civil rights heroine is so at odds with the racist past of the conservative churches of the Southern Baptist Convention. And yet, it is only because of conservative evangelical conviction that the Bible belt came to understand that asking ladies to sit at the back of the bus because of the color of their skin isn’t just bad policy — it is sin.

The End Times and the People of God, Part 3

— Thursday, October 27th, 2005 —

One of a series of messages on the issues of the Rapture, Tribulation, Antichrist, Millennium, and Eternal State

The End Times and the People of God, Part 2

— Thursday, October 27th, 2005 —

One of a series of messages on the issues of the Rapture, Tribulation, Antichrist, Millennium, and Eternal State

The End Times and the People of God, Part 1

— Thursday, October 27th, 2005 —

One of a series of messages on the issues of the Rapture, Tribulation, Antichrist, Millennium, and Eternal State

More on the Depopulating Left

— Thursday, October 27th, 2005 —

I don’t agree with many of National Review’s John Derbyshire’s conclusions on parenting, but he does have an interesting take on one recent item: an Arkansas mother giving birth to her sixteenth child.

Searching for the Point

— Thursday, October 27th, 2005 —

The techno-competent web gurus at the Henry Institute have just unveiled a new component to the website: a search engine for “Moore to the Point” commentaries. You can access this tool at http://www.russellmoore.com/search.php by keywords or subject matter. Now if only I could remember where I left my cellphone and my car keys…

Contracepting the New Birth?

— Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 —

If your church nursery was unnervingly quiet this past Sunday, you are probably a member of a liberal Protestant church. So says a new study about population decline and mainline Protestantism by sociologists from the University of California at Berkley, the University of Arizona, and Indiana University. Mainliners are hailing this survey because it places the blame for Protestant denominational decline not on theological liberalism, but on the churches’ acceptance of delayed childbirth, small families, and an extreme contraception culture.

Rolling Stone on Intelligent Design

— Monday, October 24th, 2005 —

Perhaps it is not often that the smirking secularists at Rolling Stone magazine hit the target, but they have when it comes to what’s ultimately behind the current arguments over Intelligent Design (ID).

C.S. Lewis and the Quirky Idea of Male Headship

— Saturday, October 22nd, 2005 —

If C.S. Lewis were alive today, would he write about male headship? In one sense, this question is akin to Kennedy enthusiasts arguing that JFK would have spared the nation from Viet Nam, or neo-Confederates arguing that President Davis’s successor would have abolished slavery in the CSA. But a brief suggestion in a new book asks that question, a question that reveals much about what we consider “mere Christianity” in the twenty-first century.

The Return of Jezebel

— Friday, October 14th, 2005 —

A few years ago, when the evangelical book fad The Prayer of Jabez was in full swing, I joked that the feminist revisionists would respond with their own small devotional volume: The Prayer of Jezebel. Well, now it is here.

Fortress Press, the publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has announced the publication of The Jezebel Letters, which "combines top-notch biblical scholarship with a fictionalized first-person account of the biblical character." According to the Fortress press release, the book "transforms the stereotype of the notorious biblical queen into a more historically based portrayal of a powerful, literate royal woman."