Honor Where Honor Is Due
In December 1994, our family pulled up in front of 940 Blue Mountain Lane in Antioch, Tennessee. My mother had never seen the house in person. She trusted my dad to pick out a house for us. We pulled up to the house with a moving truck, a red Plymouth van, and an old Nissan pickup. We’d spent the last few years in Waldorf, Maryland, where my dad had pastored a recent church plant. We were moving to the Nashville area for my dad to...
HSF Conversations: The Importance of Balancing Study and Practical Ministry for Pastors
In this episode of HSF Conversations, HSF contributors Daniel Mann and Jesse Owens are joined by Ed Goode to discuss the importance and difficulty of balancing study and practical ministry for pastors. We discuss why study and practical ministry are vital for pastors, the dangers of neglecting one or the other, and strategies for striking the right...
HSF Conversations: Free Will Baptist History with Dr. J. Matthew Pinson
In this episode of HSF Conversations, Jesse Owens is joined by Dr. Matthew Pinson to discuss his new book The Free Will Baptists: A New History, published by the University of Tennessee Press. In the episode, they discuss Pinson’s earliest memories of studying Free Will Baptist history, previous histories of the movement, the Randall and Palmer lines of Free Will Baptist history, and more. We hope you enjoy the episode, and be...
Why Care About Theology Amid Cultural Crisis?
During the Great Depression, the Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen was troubled to find that some Christians were downplaying the importance of teaching the gospel in favor of focusing on people’s physical needs (food, housing, clothing, education, etc.). Certainly, the concern for people’s physical needs is noble, reminding us of the book of James. But Machen realized that, while Christians must care about and seek to meet...
HSF Conversations: The Importance of Baptist History with Jake Stone
In this episode of HSF Conversations, host Jesse Owens is joined by Jake Stone to discuss the importance of Baptist history for the life of the...
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