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.

“Okie from Muskogee,” by Merle Haggard

— Friday, November 25th, 2011 —

In this week’s episode of “The Cross and the Jukebox,” we take a look at an old Merle Haggard song, “Okie from Muskogee.” This is something of a protest song—a protest against “hippies,” those protesting the Vietnam War, those who’re seen as anti-patriotic and “counter-culture.”

Haggard has since repudiated the central message of this [...]

Family Tensions and the Holidays

— Monday, November 21st, 2011 —

We tend to idealize holidays, but human depravity doesn’t go into hibernation between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. One thing that will hit most Christians, sooner or later, are tensions within extended families at holiday time.

Some of you will be visiting family members who are contemptuous [...]

What Forgiveness Is and Isn’t

— Thursday, November 17th, 2011 —

The most difficult math problem in the universe, it turns out, is 70 x 7. Perhaps the hardest thing to do in the Christian life is to forgive someone who has hurt you, often badly. But Jesus says the alternative to forgiving one’s enemies is [...]

Christian Ethics Final Exam, Fall 2011

— Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 —

Every year my Christian ethics class at Southern Seminary ends with a final examination that amounts to answering a hypothetical question. The point is not to get to any particular answer, but to see how they get to where they get. Do they have the [...]

Christ and Children’s Curricula

— Monday, November 7th, 2011 —

A couple of weeks back, beneath a commentary I wrote on my salvation testimony, one of you asked the question: “Do you have any articles or resources that you would recommend to Christian parents on how to view the spiritual status of their young [...]

Hebrews 3:1-6

— Friday, November 4th, 2011 —

This “Retrocast” (Hebrews 3:1-6) teaching took place on Sunday, October 14, 2007 in a Sunday school class in Louisville, Kentucky. You can find more sermons and other audio from Dr. Moore at our media page, www.russellmoore.com/resources/.

“The Times They Are a-Changin’,” by Bob Dylan

— Friday, November 4th, 2011 —

A while back I had the opportunity to sit down with Greg Thornbury of Union University to record this week’s episode of “The Cross and the Jukebox,” an episode in which we talk about Bob Dylan’s song, “The Times They Are a-Changin’.”

Dylan, Thornbury says, “does a very good job [...]