I’ll never forget where I was on September 11, 2001. My wife and I were in our second year of marriage, and we were living in Louisville, Kentucky while I was working on my Ph.D. On the morning of the attacks, I had a seminar later that day, and I was in our apartment when she called me from her work to tell me to turn the television on. I think both buildings had already been struck by the time I tuned in, but I was watching live television as the towers eventually crumbled to the ground. Americans were horrified by what we saw that day. As the flames engulfed…
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Can Women Be Pastors? Crucial Question 3 – CBMW Podcast
On this episode, Jon, Denny, and Colin continue our Crucial Question series and address the question, Where in the Bible do you get the idea that only men should be the pastors and elders of the church?
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Importance of Male & Female Roles: Crucial Questions 1 & 2 – CBMW Podcast
On this episode, Jon, Denny, and Colin discuss why male and female roles are important, how they relate to nature, and the biblical implications for ministry in the church.
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Tom Schreiner, Jim Hamilton, and Andrew Walker Discuss “Mere Complementarianism” with Denny Burk
The Bookstore at Southern hosted a panel discussion of Mere Complementarianism with Tom Schreiner, Jim Hamilton, and Andrew Walker. Many thanks to these dear brothers for doing this. You can watch the video below.
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College Football and Kiffin Derangement Syndrome
College Football is all in a tizzy right now over LSU football and its head coach Lane Kiffin. The conventional description of the issue goes like this. LSU head coach Lane Kiffin is out of control! He’s trying to open up a pathway for NFL players to play in college. He’s singlehandedly ruining the sport by adding former pros to his team. If that is what you’ve heard, you have unfortunately heard wrong. This kind of inane analysis is all over the place right now, including on the ESPN program “First Take” this morning (see video below). After watching “First Take,” I can hardly believe how much people are blinded…
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Trans Tide Receding – CBMW Podcast
On this episode, Jon, Denny, and Colin discuss a major Texas settlement that requires hospitals to repudiate “sex-rejecting” procedures, as well as pressure from the Trump admin to stop schools from hiding “gender transitions” from parents.
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Farewell to an American Original — Dolly Parton (1946-2026)
Like everyone, I was grieved to read the news that Dolly Parton died today. She is an American original and has been a ubiquitous presence in our popular culture for about half a century. I suspect her passing will be a bigger event in American life than some might anticipate. She is loved and admired by almost everyone from all sides of the cultural and political divides in our country. That’s really difficult to achieve, but she somehow did it for multiple generations. She was extraordinary. Her songwriting alone could have made ten careers. But on top of that she was the consummate performer, not only as a singer but…
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Wolves in White Coats – CBMW Podcast
On this episode, Jon, Denny, and Colin discuss a new HHS report announced by Vice President JD Vance that details the gross fraud and medical malpractice involved in so-called transgender medicine over the past decade.
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The Conversion of a Pastor
Brian Payne is the pastor of Lakeview Baptist Church in Auburn, AL, a dear friend, a former colleague at Boyce College, and one of the finest expositors in the Southern Baptist Convention. He just had his 5-year anniversary as pastor and his 35-year anniversary of coming to Christ. Brian was converted at a Truth concert during the song “Holy of Holies”—a song about Jesus as our High Priest from the book of Hebrews. If you remember that era of Truth music, you will remember that song was huge. It was certainly huge in Brian’s life. Yesterday, the worship pastor at Lakeview did an extraordinary thing. He surprised Brian by bringing…
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Get Married, Have Babies, Join a Church – CBMW Podcast
I had a great conversation with Sean DeMars about his outstanding little book titled Get Married, Have Babies, Join a Church. You can watch the interview at the YouTube link below, or you can listen at Spotify or Apple podcasts below that.
