“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor, He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Luke 4:18-19 [...]

Sitting beneath the splendor of Table Mountain to one side and the ocean’s shore to another, Cape Town rests in one of the more resplendent sites of any major world city. Our team arrived Friday night after a day and a half of travel, sweet fellowship, and numerous gospel conversations. Settling into our lodging late [...]

Tomorrow I will be taking a team of fifteen on a journey to Cape Town, South Africa. The team consists of 13 students from SEBTS, our daughter Hannah, and yours truly. Further, 12 of the 15 are also a part of our church, Richland Creek Community Church, all of those but Hannah a part of [...]

Trevin Wax is one of the best young thinkers in the SBC. The following comes from his blog with his permission and offers a look at the idea of missional student ministry. What you will read explains what we seek to do in training student pastors at SEBTS. We need a transformation, a reformation, and [...]

Leaders of the church in any era have the responsibility of identifying the idols of our time and confronting them with the gospel. David Platt has done this with the idol of the American Dream and it’s materialism, for instance. We have a variety of idols in our time, from rampant sensuality, to prolonged adolescence [...]