I see a good sign over the horizon. There is a blog about Barak Obama and John Kerry at LaShawn Barber’s Corner. Is that a political blog? Is this a return just in time for the national conventions and the home stretch to November? If it is a return, give me a seat just off thrid base about four rows up! LaShawn’s insights are intelligent.

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Experiencing the Truth: Bringing Reformation to the African American Community (Crossway, 2008) is available! A description of the book can be found here! Purchase a copy for an African American pastor, and, if Baptist, for any African American chairman of deacons and chairman of trustees that you know.    Thank you Pastors Carter, Jones, and Leach for a great work! Thank you, Crossway, for supporting the work of Reformation in the African American community with great publications.    Below is my endorsement on the book.    ____________________________   “Experiencing the Truth g... [read more]

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Graciously, I was invited to The Paul Edwards Show to discuss Senator Obama’s Father’s Day “sermon” (?), the problem of absentee fathers in the African American community, and Where Are All the Brothers?   (For listeners to the program, my previous post on Jeremiah Wright and Liberation Theology can be found here.)  I probably should rejoice that the speech places the final answer in Christ, even as Paul rejoiced from Rome with the Phillipians that the Gospel was preached - even when out of ill-motives.  Yet I hope our pulpits will be centered around the Gospe... [read more]

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 At the Vital Signs segment of the bet.com Lifestyle page, there is a May 30 posting entitled, “Why Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Doesn’t Work.” The author suggests that abstinence-only programs are not beneficial to the African American community. I have printed the text of the article below, and my responses to the author’s statements are in the red paragraphs. The line of reasoning is similar to that of those who are for acceptance of homosexual lifestyles within the African American church, to which I have responded in the last chapter of Where Are All the Brothers?  ... [read more]

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I am stepping out of my hiatus for one post because I have been provoked by thoughts on elders in Baptist life. In the most recent issue of Deacon magazine, Greg Pouncey, Pastor of First Baptist Church Tillman’s Corner, Mobile, Alabama, contributes an article entitled, “The Reemergence of Elders in Baptist Life” 38:4 (Summer 2008): 28-31. I found a fair and balanced discussion in the article for the most part, although I wish the article could have given more space to the analysis of the Scriptures; (but I know that editors place limitations or word count on these types of articles). ... [read more]

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I am taking inventory of all things, so as to redeem the time. I am not sure when I will be back. April 1 to June 30 are weeks of overloaded scheduling. I am going to work on getting priorities in the right order. I hope to be back.

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Thank you if you are visiting this site because of today’s story in the Prince George’s Gazette, “Pastor Addresses Skipping Church,” or because of today’s post at Townhall.com (and carried at Crosswalk.com), ”Is Jeremiah Wright Mainstream?” The tab to the book, Where Are All the Brothers?, is above the first post in a tool bar line for this site’s pages. The Amazon link is at the top of the right side bar. I am appreciative of your visit.

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Below is my endorsement of Secret Sex Wars, edited by Robert S. Scott, Sr, being posted at their website. Please tell a brother about the book. I have counseled men through pornographic additction; I have heard first-hand of the struggles of others. The need for help is real. Like an evil parasite ever-looking for another host, sexual immorality, in all of its deviant forms, has buried itself into the walls of the belly of the Internet, and thus into the minds of many feeding continually on its images. Although the sickness and bondage from this sin is at pandemic levels in the world, i... [read more]

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Later today I can be heard on a pre-recorded broadcast on the Albert Mohler Radio Program. Dr. Mohler and I will be talking about the mainstream theology of Dr. Jeremiah Wright.     “Mainstream?” Yes, in response to your question, mainstream. For, as I say on the broadcast, if you listen to the greatest aggregate of sermons from African American pulpits since the Civil Rights Era until now, I suggest that you will hear the themes of Black Liberation Theology throughout the sermons: empowerment, (social) deliverance, overcoming (White) oppression, God is for the poor (indi... [read more]

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From Paul Helm at Helm’s Deep: Those who visit Helm’s Deep may be interested in this short book, Calvin, A Guide for the Perplexed, (a nicely ambiguous title, don’t you think?), to be published later this year by T & T Clark. It is intended to be an introduction to Calvin’s theology, with (where appropriate) a philosophical flavour.   The Chapters are - 1. Orientation 2. The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves 3. God in Trinity 4. The Son 5. Grace and Faith 6. The Christian Life 7. The Church and Society 8. Calvin and Calvinism   With the a... [read more]

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