There’s a beautiful Christian camp I’ve been to many times which serves my hometown crowd of more or less independent, baptistic churches. Anybody who knows me can guess which camp I’m talking about, but please don’t: what I’m about to say applies to many, many...
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Answering a Few More Objections to Authorized: Part 4, The New King James Version Uses Critical Text Readings
I’m in the midst of a short series answering objections to my viewpoint in Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible, objections that for various reasons didn’t make it into the book already. (Most objections I hear I already addressed.) Last Monday, we...
Answering a Few More Objections to Authorized: Part 3, You Are Pushing Modern Versions Onlyism
I’m in the midst of a short series answering objections to my viewpoint in Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible, objections that for various reasons didn’t make it into the book already. (Most objections I hear I already addressed.) On Monday, we...
Where Should I Train for Ministry?
I just posted the following in a Facebook group composed largely by pastors who graduated from KJV-Only institutions. One asked which schools group members would recommend for a youth pastor. I jotted out some thoughts I’ve been wanting to send to the KJV-Only...
Can People Learn to Read the English of the KJV?
One Sunday a few years ago I asked the teens I was teaching in Sunday School to read some verses out loud, and one of them read from the KJV. This is what he said—and I quickly took note of his pronunciation errors and saved them, because I thought they raised a good...
Three Critiques of Authorized that Bear Weight with Me
It’s been really, really hard to get responsible, unsympathetic people to offer critiques of Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible. I have come to feel that a patient and careful response from one’s opponents is one of the rarest honors accorded to a...
C.S. Lewis on the Pleasure of Pleasing People without Being a People Pleaser
A few years ago I had one of those little formative experiences. I was leaving a long-term evangelistic ministry to teenagers in which I participated at my church. After six years of Friday nights, after countless hours of work I loved and loved sharing with other...
Does My Argument in Authorized Apply to Old Hymns?
A pastor friend in urban Chicago asked a great question: How does the case you make in your book regarding [unintelligible language in] the KJV apply to our hymnody? I'm editing our Sunday slide presentation and am finding that the “thees” and “thous,” while beautiful...
The Legitimate Concerns of the Next Generation of Christians in My Denomination
I was asked by Dr. Mike Harding to deliver an address titled "The Legitimate Concerns of the Next Generation (An Objective Analysis") at the Foundations Baptist Fellowship International (FBFI) annual meeting in Troy, Michigan, June 12–13, 2018. A few prefatory...
I Looked for a Musician to Stand in the Gap
I’m the music director at my church, my wife is one of our pianists. We and another pianist, a very dedicated and skillful lady, recently attended a Majesty Music Conference in order to gain instruction and, frankly, inspiration for a church music program (our own!)...
Survey for Foundations Baptist Fellowship Talk
I have been asked to address the Annual Fellowship of the Foundations Baptist Fellowship International in June, 2018, in Troy, Michigan, on this topic: "The Legitimate Concerns of the Next Generation (An Objective Analysis)." Now, every Christian worships within some...
Alastair Roberts on Fundamentalism, the Graham-Pence Rule, and Purity as Avoidance
I'm becoming an Alastair Roberts fanboy. I can't wait for his Crossway book on a theology of gender—except that the guy can write 4,000 intellectually rich and biblically sound words a minute, and I actually want to get through the book so I'm hoping the editors can...