Taxation without Representation: The Importance of Constitutionalism
This month several contributors from the Helwys Society Forum are going to offer essays related to the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. Each post will address a specific aspect of the founding and suggest some applications for our present moment. Sometime in the early 2010s, I attended a community get-together in early July where the organizers decided to give printed handouts of the Declaration of...
HSF Conversations: Why Truth Matters with Bruce Little
In this episode of HSF Conversations, HSF contributor Christopher Talbot interviews Bruce Little on his new book Why Truth Matters: Francis Schaeffer on True Spirituality, Christ’s Lordship, and Inerrancy. Dr. Little is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (2018), where he served as full-time faculty from 2001 to 2018 and director of the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture (2008-2013). We...
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...
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