Andrew Walker on Natural Law and Christian Ethics

Today, we have Dr. Andrew Walker return to The Way Home Podcast! Andrew is the Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology. Today on the Way Home Podcast we discuss political theology, natural law theory, the Christian Nationalist scare, and Dr. Walker’s new book Faithful Reason: […]

The Way Home Podcast: Matthew Bennett On Missions in the Homeland

Today, we have Matthew Bennett joining us on The Way Home podcast. Matthew Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Missions and Theology at Cedarville University in Cedarville OH. Today, we discuss questions like .If you have similar questions or would like to learn more about the current state of global affairs, then this episode is just […]

The Way Home podcast: Bart Barber on Southern Baptist History

Today we have Dr. Bart Barber joining us on The Way Home podcast. Bart Barber is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Farmersville, TX and serves as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Today we discuss pastoring in difficult times, why Bart feels called to this position of leadership in the SBC, […]

The Way Home: J.D. Greear prayer and leadership

Today, J.D. Greear joins me again on The Way Home podcast. J.D. is the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and the senior pastor of The Summit Church in North Carolina. J.D. Greear wrote a new book called “Just Ask: The Joy of Confident, Bold, Patient, Relentless, Shameless, Dependent, Grateful, Powerful, Expectant Prayer.” On this […]

The Way Home: Governor Bill Haslam on faith and public service

Today, former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam joins me again on The Way Home podcast. He’s a very strong Christen. When he was governor, he demonstrated what it looks like to be an apologetic conservative but also lead in a way that is compassionate and in a way that shows wisdom and maturity in a time […]

The Way Home: Dave Harvey on the plurality principle

On this episode of The Way Home podcast, Dave Harvey, a long-time pastor and author, joins me to talk about his latest book “The Plurality Principle.” We talk about what it means for a church to have a plurality of leadership—leadership that is not just centered in one person—and what that looks like practically within […]

Preaching and Baseball

In an article for Leadership Journal, I compare ministry to baseball. Pastors have a tendency to “swing for the fences” with every sermon, but we’re better off working hard on the little things of preaching in order to give our people a lifetime of good spiritual food: Ministry is very much like baseball in this way. […]

Christians on Computers Talking Cakes

You probably don’t want to read one more article on the religious liberty, cake-baking, gay marriage controversy. But let me diverge from the important legal and spiritual implications of this discussion and talk about the actual discussion itself. How should the discussion among Christians be driven around the public water cooler of social media? Here […]

Why Should We Talk About Our Racial History?

In Southern Baptist Churches this Sunday we celebrate Racial Reconciliation Sunday. At the ERLC, we’ve developed quite a few resources for churches to use in their presentations. I’m grateful our denomination celebrates this, given our racial history and given how central this issue is to the gospel. In the Great Commission (Mathew 28:16), we see […]

Beware of People-Pleasing

My good friend, Charles Stone, has written about one of the hidden temptations of leadership: the tendency to people-please. I know that I fought this as a pastor and continue to fight it as a leader today. On the one hand, your job is to love and serve God’s people. This means putting aside preference […]

Equipping Students with the Tools of Leadership

Last year Angela and I were enjoying some downtime in Orlando Florida. The hotel we were staying at was also hosting a student leadership conference hosted by Student Leadership University. We had the chance to speak to the organizers there and came away impressed by their vision for student discipleship. Last week I had the […]

Preaching as a Craft to Be Cultivated.

I love preaching. I love the act of preaching and I love listening to preaching. There is something wild and mysterious and beautiful about God’s Word flowing through a flawed man empowered by the Holy Spirit as a primary delivery method for spiritual change. This week I had the chance to interview Matt Woodley, managing […]