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.

1 Samuel 8:1-22

— Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 —

This sermon from 1 Samuel 8:1-22 was originally preached on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. You can find more sermons and other audio from Dr. Moore at our media page.

Leviticus 17:10-14

— Monday, December 26th, 2011 —

This sermon from Leviticus 17:10-14 was originally preached on Sunday, October 16, 2011 at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. You can find more sermons and other audio from Dr. Moore at our media page.

1 Samuel 7:1-17

— Friday, December 23rd, 2011 —

This sermon from 1 Samuel 7:1-17 was originally preached on Sunday, October 9, 2011 at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. You can find more sermons and other audio from Dr. Moore at our media page.

An Open Letter to a Newborn Son

— Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 —

To Taylor Eugene Moore,

You certainly made last Sunday memorable.

I was just about to preach when I noticed your mother wasn’t in her normal pew at our church. I slipped out during the offering and found her in the foyer. She told me she was in [...]

Let’s Stop Ignoring Joseph

— Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 —

I played a cow in my first-grade Christmas pageant, and I had more lines than the kid who played Joseph. He was a prop, or so it seemed, for Mary, the plastic doll in the manger, and the rest of us. We were just following [...]

Address at the Touchstone Magazine 25th Anniversary Event

— Monday, December 19th, 2011 —

This address was given at the Touchstone Maganize 25th Anniversary Event in Rosemont, Illinois, on Friday, October 28, 2011. You can find more sermons and other audio from Dr. Moore at our media page.

“Merry Christmas from the Family,” by Montgomery Gentry

— Monday, December 19th, 2011 —

“Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk” is not the typical opening of a Christmas carol. But in this week’s episode of “The Cross and the Jukebox,” we take a look at Montgomery Gentry’s version of the song, ”Merry Christmas from the Family,” a song that explores the darker side of [...]

Christopher Hitchens Might Be in Heaven

— Friday, December 16th, 2011 —

Christopher Hitchens, the world’s most famously caustic atheist, is now dead.

Hitchens expected this moment, of course, but he anticipated, wrongly, a blackness, a going out of consciousness forever. Many Christians today are sadly remarking on what it is like for Christopher Hitchens to be now [...]

Eschatology Reading Lists

— Friday, December 9th, 2011 —

This coming semester I’ll be teaching two courses on eschatology at Southern Seminary. Several folks beyond students at the seminary have asked me via email and Twitter what books I assign for these, so I decided I would post these reading lists for each of my courses here.

Doctoral Seminar

• Alan [...]

“If We Make It through December,” by Merle Haggard

— Friday, December 9th, 2011 —

In this week’s episode of “The Cross and the Jukebox,” we take a look at another Merle Haggard song, ”If We Make It through December.” The jingly Christmas carols wafting around us in the shopping malls tell us that this is the “most wonderful time of the year.” But behind all that wonder, [...]