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.

What Maurice Sendak Can Teach the Church

— Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 —

Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn’t seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. After all, he was an atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul mouth. But underneath all of that, I think, Sendak saw something of the fallen glory of [...]

Mothers Day and the Infertile

— Monday, May 7th, 2012 —

Mother’s Day is a particularly sensitive time in many congregations, and pastors and church leaders often don’t even know it. This is true even in congregations that don’t focus the entire service around the event as if it were a feast day on the church’s [...]

“The Engineer’s Dying Child” by Johnny Cash

— Friday, May 4th, 2012 —

Rascal Flatts probably won’t ever sing a song about baby death.

I chose this week’s song when I read Roseanne Cash mention how out of kilter it is in today’s music culture to hear the kinds of songs one heard all the time in Appalachian folk music: songs about the sickness and death of infants [...]

Dialogue on Evangelical Issues

— Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 —

T4G 2012: Dinner and Dialogue Panel from Southern Seminary on Vimeo.

A few weeks ago, a conference, Together for the Gospel, met here in Louisville taking up the theme of “The Underestimated Gospel.” In conjunction with that, some colleagues and I taught a class [...]

What Augustine’s Baptism Can Teach Our Churches

— Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 —

I just finished reading a remarkable little book, Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism, by Garry Wills (Oxford University Press). I’ll admit that I started the book with a bit of misplaced Baptist triumphalism, and ended it with a bit [...]

Join Me for Beignets and Baptists

— Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 —

In a few weeks, I’ll be down in my old stomping grounds of New Orleans for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Each year in advance of my convention’s annual meeting, I teach a class in tandem with the event. In year’s [...]

Beyond a Trickle-Down Liturgy

— Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 —

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of trickle-down liturgy. What I mean by that is music that is designed and marketed somewhere, makes it on Christian radio or other media, and then becomes familiar enough that people start singing it in church.

Now, to [...]

Weddings, Funerals, and Unbelievers

— Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 —

Every community has “that guy,” the minister of the gospel who thinks he is called by God to be a Justice of the Peace, officiating as a kind chaplain at the weddings of whoever asks.

Last week, The Gospel Coalition ran an article of [...]

Meditations from Jefferson’s Grave

— Monday, April 9th, 2012 —

Last week I stood at the grave of Thomas Jefferson, and wondered. I was in Charlottesville to speak at the University Mr. Jefferson founded, and made my way up to his homeplace Monticello. Standing at his grave, I was prompted to give [...]

How the Resurrection Undoes Our Need to Be Proven Right

— Friday, April 6th, 2012 —

As Jesus drowned in his own blood, the spectators yelled words quite similar to those of Satan in the wilderness: “Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe” (Mk. 15:32).

But Jesus didn’t jump down. [...]