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...
The Heart of Ministry: Pastoral Reflections on 1 Thessalonians 2:1–8
When reading the second half of Acts recently, I was struck by the commitment of Paul and his companions to press on in ministry no matter the opposition they faced. A good example of this point occurs in Acts 16–18. Just after the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), Paul and Silas set out for Paul’s second missionary journey. In Acts 16, they added Timothy as a companion in ministry and soon ended up in Troas. In Troas, Paul had a vision by...
HSF Conversations: “Tell Me About Your Sermon Prep” with Jeff Jones
In this episode of HSF Conversations, we continue our series “Tell Us About Your Sermon Prep” with Dr. Jeff Jones. Dr. Jones has served as pastor of Hilltop Free Will Baptist Church for over thirty years. He also serves as president of Southeastern Free Will Baptist College where he has taught homiletics for many years. In this episode, he shares with us some of his practices for sermon preparation, including what an ideal...
Thomas Monck’s Apologia: A General Baptist Use of Reformed Orthodoxy to Defend the Trinity
Historian Ernest Gordon Rupp said of Thomas Monck’s Cure for the Cankering Error of the New Eutychians (1673), “No high churchman, no orthodox Anglican, not Daniel Waterland himself produced an abler defence of catholic doctrine.”[1] Monck’s Cure was a biblical and theological polemic against the rising tide of anti-Trinitarianism in England and the emergence of heretical Christology within his own denomination. Rupp’s assessment is...
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