Uncategorized “Earth Shattering Good News” 13 Jan 20192 Aug 2019 All right, kids! It's time we had a talk about "Law and Gospel!" A MidWinter 2019 retreat sermon by Jonathan Balmer, delivered January 12th, 2019. Video of the sermon from…
Uncategorized 7th & James Youth Mission Trip 2018 5 Sep 201810 May 2020 The context: Hurricane Harvey was the second costliest storm in United States History. In Houston, America’s most diverse city, thousands upon thousands of people faced flood damage, and grave uncertainty…
Uncategorized “More than we thought we wanted” 5 Aug 201813 Aug 2018 What we want is not what always what God gives. That is good news. A sermon delivered at 7th & James Baptist Church. Waco, TX. “More than we thought we…
Uncategorized “So Abraham Went” Sermon 500th anniversary of the Reformation 31 Oct 20175 Sep 2018 Truett seminary hosted a preaching conference. All the sermons were to find their basis in Genesis. I preached earlier today, which happens to be Halloween (All Saints Day Eve), and…
Uncategorized Fleming Rutledge on Justification 19 Dec 201617 Jul 2019 "God is using you in spite of yourself. We aren't responsible for making progress. Whatever progress is made will be the gift of God. Jesus said, "Fear not, little flock.…
Uncategorized Fulbright Orientation Week 3: Why I love visiting churches and Why ecclesiology is like surgery. 2 Aug 20154 Aug 2015 I am thankful for those of my ETA friends who consistently put up with my slow learning. Each time we are out, they correct my lacking Korean pronunciation. And, as…
Uncategorized Pentecostal power -Curtis Freeman 17 Jun 201517 Jun 2015 Pentecostal power Members of the Baptist World Alliance and the Pentecostal World Fellowship will meet this coming August in Quito, Ecuador, for a series of ecumenical conversations to begin asking…
Uncategorized Teaching people to be congregational: renarrating voting -Stephen Holmes 12 Jun 2015 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we do church meeting badly… (‘we’ = ‘most British Baptists of whom I am aware’.) A part of the problem is,…
Uncategorized The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding… Stephen Holmes 12 Jun 2015 The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding is best exemplified by the unusual Baptist use of the word ‘church’. There is no ‘Baptist church’ that is not a…
Uncategorized 3 Things to Know About the Abercrombie Ruling- Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty- BJC 2 Jun 20152 Jun 2015 Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia said: Abercrombie’s argument that a neutral policy cannot constitute “intentional discrimination” may make sense in other contexts. But Title VII does not demand mere…
