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.

Marvin Olasky on Adopted for Life

— Thursday, April 30th, 2009 —

“Adopted for Life is a well-written rooting of adoption in biblical theology. Moore, who weaves in the story of the two Russian children he and his wife have adopted, shows how churches should view adoption as part of their mission. He shows what a difference [...]

Earth Is Not G-Rated

— Thursday, April 30th, 2009 —

This past Monday night I took my young sons to see a movie seething with implicit sex and violence. No explicit sex scenes were shown, and blood and gore was absent, but the subtext of raw violence and animal sexuality was everywhere. And the film was rated G.

We were, of course, in the theater watching Disney’s [...]

The Emergent Next Door?

— Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 —

There’s a lot of reasons why I was glad to see Adam Greenway and Bill Henard’s new volume Evangelicals Engaging Emergent: A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement (B&H). First, it’s an important topic. Second, the book is edited by two friends, both faculty members here at Southern. Third, the book contains essays [...]

Another Sort of Thunder: Why You (Yes, You) Are on the Verge of Adultery (Exod 20:14; Prov 7:1-27)

— Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 —

Another Sort of Thunder from Russell Moore on Vimeo.

This sermon, “Another Sort of Thunder: Why You (Yes, You) Are on the Verge of Adultery” [Exod 20:14; Prov 7:1-27], was originally preached on Sunday, April [...]

Dan Cruver on Adopted for Life

— Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 —

“This book is for all who have been adopted by God. With remarkable narrative flow Russell Moore illumines the beauty and wonder of our adoption in Christ and its profound and necessary implications for orphan care and the earthly practice of adoption. If you want [...]

Recommended Reading on Bioethics

— Monday, April 27th, 2009 —

This past week one of my students in Christian ethics class at Southern Seminary asked for a list of recommended books on bioethics (that is, issues related to such things as in vitro fertilization, cloning, embryonic stem cell research, nanotechnology). The students had read Bill McKibben’s Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age [...]

Albert Mohler on Adopted for Life

— Monday, April 27th, 2009 —

“Thankfully, there are good books on adoption and good books on the Gospel. But, until the arrival of Adopted for Life, there has never been a book that puts the adoption of children so clearly within the context of the Gospel of Christ. Adopted for [...]

Reading Joseph Smith’s Book

— Sunday, April 26th, 2009 —

I just finished reading Ross Anderson’s little book Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Quick Christian Guide to the  Mormon Holy Book, just published by Zondervan, and find it both helpful and fascinating.

The book is short, 116 very small pages, and is written in a conversational style. Anderson, an evangelical pastor in [...]

Quote of the Moment

— Sunday, April 26th, 2009 —

Twitter is really just about unlocking the value of human spirit really. What you see when you look at Twitter during and after an earthquake, what we’re really seeing is people helping one another, coordinating in real time using a tool that didn’t exist before we made Twitter. It’s the ability to essentially move [...]

David Platt on Adopted for Life

— Friday, April 24th, 2009 —

“Yes, yes, yes! Russell Moore has given the church a God-centered, Gospel-saturated, culturally-sensitive, mission-focused, desperately needed exploration of the priority and privilege of adoption. He exposes misconceptions and uncovers misunderstandings which not only keep us from fostering an adoptive culture in our churches, but which [...]