Church Transfer Growth: Fictional Letter to a Fellow Pastor
Dear Fellow Pastor, Thanks for reaching out about the recent developments in your ministry. Your excitement about your church’s growth is palpable. It’s definitely a “good problem” to decide how many services, classes, and/or groups you need to support this growth! As I’ve told you before, our church prays for you and your church. We regularly pray for other Bible-believing, gospel-preaching churches in our region. While we differ on...
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 Contributors Interviewed on Truth in the Public Square Podcast
Two HSF members, Christopher Talbot and Matthew Steven Bracey, were each recently interviewed by Truth in the Public Square podcast, Talbot on Francis Schaeffer and Bracey on conservatism. We encourage you all to check them out....
Walking in the Light
We all interact with art every day. For most of us, our day-to-day engagement with art is the common habit of listening to the radio as we drive to work or turning on the television after supper. Whether we are aware of it or not, those songs and shows communicate something to us. Art has subject matter, and that subject matter fills our imaginations. Therefore, we ought to concern ourselves with what kinds of subject matter we take...
Recommended Books (Spring 2026)
This spring we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
Exposition and Exhortation: Pattern of Emphasizing Indicatives and Imperatives in Preaching in the Book of Hebrews
Preaching is central in God’s plan to save and transform lives (1 Cor. 1:21; 2 Tim. 4:2). All of God’s people should have great interest in preaching because it is one of the foremost means God has chosen to form them spiritually. In this article, I have two groups in mind. First, I am writing to preachers, the ones who have the privilege of preaching God’s Word to local churches. Second, I am writing to church members, the ones who...
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