The desire to fit in and be a part of the crowd is built in to the human heart. When it comes to our faith we often just go along with things we don't agree with just to fit it. This leads to legalism, cronyism, and traditionalism. We need to embrace our own individuality and be comfortable with who God made us to be.

American pulpits are increasingly falling into a ditch on either side of the Bible preaching road. On one side you have the worldly centered pulpit that in lacking in Biblical exposition. On the other side you have the overly educational, dry, dusty, rigid out line style that give the congregation information and very little application. The worldly ditch has been around for years, but this other ditch is gaining ground. In this episode I'll describe examples of both and give advice to avoid them and stay Biblical.

The phrase "Know your audience" has been around for years and is good sound advice. When it comes to the worship of God it is all the more important. Preachers should prepare for an audience with God alone. When we gather for worship God should be our focus. However in today's culture there's a trend of trying to capture everything on our phone to share on social media. If our only audience is God, why do we have this desire to show our worship to another audience? Honestly, the true worship of God cannot be captured on our phones, it requires our personal presence. Join us today as we seek to put the breaks on videoing the worship of the Almighty.

One of the easiest ways to share the gospel is to share a tract. In this episode I cover various kinds of gospel tracts, where to get them, and share some ideas to help you give them away. Don't overlook the lowly gospel tract, it can be an effective tool in every Christian's evangelism.

Finding a church that suits your faith and practice can be harder than you may think. In certain parts of the country it may be nearly impossible. In this episode I'll give some practical advise and few tips to make your search more productive. Who knows, maybe I can be of help to you? You can always reach me a [email protected]

There are some obvious reasons to leave a church but there are some lesser reason as well. We will try to discuss them all and how to go about it on this episode.

As church attendance across America shrinks more and more professing Christians are skipping church. Even worse is the lack of instruction on the role of the church among this generation of pastor/teachers. The problem goes back for generations, back when evangelism began to out paced education. Many churches today have no criteria for membership at all, virtually anyone can join and they will never remove you. We even have churches with no formal membership at all. Does the Bible speak of church membership? Join me as I lay out 12 Biblical reasons for you to be an active member of a local church.

Just because you meet a Baptist who believes in election doesn't mean they are a reformed baptist. Nor does it mean that you need to keep working on them in order to get them to fully embrace the Reformed tradition. They might simply disagree with several reformed doctrines and they probably even have biblical support for their disagreements. That leads us to address some of the problems with the reformed baptist movement and it's not doctrinal. Many of Reformed apologist on social media are often young, educated, and over confident. This leads many fellow Baptist to hold a low view of these cage stage cowboys, and in turn a low view of Reformed Baptist in general. I'm speaking in generalities because I'm speaking of the movement in general. I have many close friends who consider themselves Reformed Baptist, most if not all of them agree with the assessments I make in this episode. It's not an attack on our Reformed brothers, it a caution to the dangers of the current trajectory.

Christians enjoy a bond that the world doesn't know anything about, we are one in Christ. We love to worship together, eat together, study together, and spend time together. True Christians share fellowship with other Christians everywhere they meet. The evidence of Christ's love for us is demonstrated in our love for fellow Believers. In this episode I discuss the joy I have had by fellowshipping with saints all over the country.

This is a sermon that I recently preached at the 11th annual Preachers of Grace pastor's conference. In this message I seek to get beyond the fruit of America's problems (LBGT, abortion, gender confusion, corrupt politics) and lay the axe at the root. I firmly believe the root cause for the shape we are in can be traced directly to our independence from the person, presence, and plan of God. We as believers need to examine this issue and call our neighbors to a proper understanding of God.