Transitioning to a Different Version of the Nicene Creed
Until the middle of the twentieth century, creeds and confessions were important to American Baptists, and they are important to us at Cornerstone….
Embracing the culture
A June 23, 2008, Associated Press story by Eric Gorski provides additional evidence that religious Americans do not know the Scriptures or have…
How do we face difficult times?
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the…
Fellowshipping believers
I’ve been blessed with good friends throughout my life, and one of the best was Steven Henderson. I first met Steve in the…
21st-Century Evangelical Idolatry
There is a crisis in 21st-century American evangelicalism, and that crisis seems to flow from a failure to believe in God, the only…
The importance of commentaries
It is no secret that I make much use of commentaries. Trustworthy commentaries stimulate my thinking and open up perspectives that I had…
The insufficiency of inerrancy
The twentieth century witnessed a great struggle in Southern Baptist life: the struggle over the inerrancy of the Scriptures. Do the Scriptures contain…
How do I enter the covenant of grace?
We have seen that God’s covenants are divided into three major areas: the covenant of redemption, the covenant of works, and the covenant…
The covenant of grace
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, arguably the most-quoted Baptist preacher in history, emphasized the God-centered and God-glorified nature of covenant theology: “Our God deserves exclusive…