The March 22 issue of Towers has a bit of a twang in its tune. The most recent issue of the Southern Seminary newspaper spotlights country music, including its relationship to the Southern Baptist Convention; its impact on, and reflection of, American culture; and connections to the country music world. Below is [...]
Blog Archive
for March, 2010
Jesus Isn’t Ashamed of You
— Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 —
If you woke me up in the middle of the night and put a gun to my head and said, “Tell me your favorite Bible verse,” I think I know what I would say.
In the resurrection account of John, the apostle includes these words of our Lord, right after Jesus reveals himself to Mary [...]
Keep Reading...Why Blood Shocks
— Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 —
The bloodiness of our age is not an anomaly.
Ultra-modern blood tests and pre-modern vampire myths get at something the Christian Scriptures already tell us about reality: The life is in the blood. Immediately after walking off the Ark into a new creation, the patriarch Noah is commanded not to eat the blood of animals, [...]
Keep Reading...Is Your Church Losing Blood?
— Monday, March 29th, 2010 —
American Christianity is far less bloody than it used to be.
Songs like “Power in the Blood” or “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood” or “Are You Washed in the Blood?” are still sung in some places, but fewer and fewer, and there aren’t many newer songs or praise choruses so focused on blood. [...]
Keep Reading...Preaching at the SBC’s Pastors’ Conference in Orlando, FL
— Sunday, March 28th, 2010 —
Dr. Moore will be preaching at the 2010 Pastors’ Conference at the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Florida, on June 13-14, 2010.
Keep Reading...Bloody Words (Acts 20:17-38)
— Thursday, March 25th, 2010 —
Bloody Words (Acts 20:17-38) from Russell Moore on Vimeo.
This sermon, “Bloody Words” (Acts 20:17-38), was originally preached on Sunday, March 21, 2010 at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. You can find more [...]
Keep Reading...Should I Tell My Child He Was Conceived in Rape?
— Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 —
Below is our latest “Question and Ethics” case study question. You remember the way it works. Let me know how you’d answer the question, and post it in the comments. I’ll weigh in with my thoughts later.
Dear Dr. Moore,
My wife has been hurt horribly by a secret no one knows but her parents and [...]
Keep Reading...Don’t Be Afraid
— Monday, March 22nd, 2010 —
“Now these three abide: anger, outrage, and fear—and the greatest of these is fear.”
That’s not in the Bible.
But sometimes I wonder if I think it is.
The United States House of Representatives just passed a health care reform bill that I and lots of other Christians opposed. Such legislation should concern us. There are some [...]
Keep Reading...Too Quiet a Riot: Why It’s Good News When Your Idols Fight Back (Acts 19:21-40)
— Thursday, March 18th, 2010 —
Too Quiet a Riot: Why It’s Good News When Your Idols Fight Back (Acts 19:21-40) from Russell Moore on Vimeo.
This sermon, “Too Quiet a Riot: Why It’s Good News When Your Idols Fight Back” [...]
Keep Reading...What Evangelicals Can Learn from Saint Patrick
— Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 —
To our shame, most evangelical Protestants tend to think of Saint Patrick as a leprechaun. As we watch the annual drunken parades and pop-culture consumerism of the March holiday, no one could seem more removed from biblical Christianity than Patrick. And yet, Patrick’s life was closer to a revival meeting than to a shamrock-decorated drinking party [...]
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