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.

A Gospel That Will Get You Arrested: Preparing Our Children to Be Persecuted (Acts 25:22-26:8)

— Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 —

A Gospel That Will Get You Arrested: Preparing Our Children to Be Persecuted (Acts 25:22-26:8) from Russell Moore on Vimeo.

This sermon, “A Gospel That Will Get You Arrested: Preparing Our Children to Be Persecuted” [...]

Should We Marry If We’re Theologically Divided?

— Monday, April 26th, 2010 —

Below is the latest “Questions and Ethics” query. Help me answer this question by telling me your thoughts in the comments. I’ll weigh in later in the week.

Dear Dr. Moore,

We are a couple thinking about whether we should marry. We love each other, and we love Jesus. We’ve been dating a while now, [...]

Why I’m Not Pre-Trib (But I Love Those Who Are)

— Friday, April 23rd, 2010 —

Here is a lecture I delivered yesterday to some students here at Southern Seminary about the timing of the Rapture. This issue is really controversial in some churches, largely because folks on both sides of the issue can be cantankerous and impatient with one another over something that isn’t “a hill on which to [...]

Should I Tell My Child He Was Conceived in Rape? My Response

— Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 —

Below is a “Questions and Ethics” query I posed a while back. Some of you weighed in on the question. Below is the question again, with my response.

Dear Dr. Moore,

My wife has been hurt horribly by a secret no one knows but her parents and me.

Years ago, when she was shortly [...]

Happy Daze: How to Avoid Apostolic Christianity, and Never Really Miss It (Acts 24:22-27)

— Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 —

Happy Daze: How to Avoid Apostolic Christianity, and Never Really Miss It (Acts 24:22-27) from Russell Moore on Vimeo.

This sermon, “Happy Daze: How to Avoid Apostolic Christianity, and Never Really Miss It” (Acts 24:22-27), [...]

Reclaiming Your Testimony (Acts 21:37-22:31)

— Thursday, April 15th, 2010 —

Reclaiming Our Testimony (Acts 21:37-22:31) from Russell Moore on Vimeo.

This sermon, “Reclaiming Your Testimony” (Acts 21:37-22:31), was originally preached on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. You can [...]

Good News for Future Corpses (Col. 3:1-4)

— Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 —

Good News for Future Corpses (Col 3:1-4) from Russell Moore on Vimeo.

This sermon, “Good News for Future Corpses” (Col. 3:1-4), was originally preached on Sunday, April 4, 2010 at Highview Baptist Church in [...]

Pray for Russia’s Orphans

— Monday, April 12th, 2010 —

I nervously switched off the television early Sunday morning as I heard my children bounding toward the door. I didn’t want them to hear the news. I didn’t want to hear it myself. Every time I see what is going on in Russia, with the government calling for an immediate halt on American adoptions, [...]

The Christ of the Folded Napkin

— Friday, April 9th, 2010 —

My friend and fellow Touchstone senior editor Patrick Henry Reardon wrote something that prompted me to shut down my computer and pray.

In his “Pastoral Ponderings” email, Reardon notes the Apostle John’s mention in his resurrection account that the kerchief which had been on Jesus’ face “not lying with the linen cloths but [...]

Cremation and a New Kind of Christianity

— Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 —

“As hellfire receded, there advanced the literal fires of the crematorium.”

So writes Oxford historian Diarmaid MacCulloch in the concluding chapter of his massive Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. The history ends with a chapter on “culture wars,” the ways Christianity is experiencing change and tumult as it enters the twenty-first century. In the [...]