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.

“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, [...]

Worry, Anxiety, and the Kingdom of Christ

— Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 —

I was a teenage Satanist. No, I’ve never stood in a pentagram of blood and I’ve never joined a coven. The signs of my Satanism are yellow highlights in an old King James Bible my grandmother gave me when I was twelve. I looked through [...]

Women, Stop Submitting to Men

— Monday, December 5th, 2011 —

Those of us who hold to so-called “traditional gender roles” are often assumed to believe that women should submit to men. This isn’t true.

Indeed, a primary problem in our culture and in our churches isn’t that women aren’t submissive enough to men, but instead [...]

Jesus Has AIDS

— Thursday, December 1st, 2011 —

Jesus has AIDS.

Just reading that in the type in front of you probably has some of you angry. Let me help you see why that is, and, in so doing, why caring for those with AIDS is part of the gospel mandate given [...]

“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 [...]