Articles

2022

“An Assessment of a Magnum Opus: James Leo Garrett Jr’s “Baptist Theology” As A Gift to 21st Century Baptists,” in SWJT, Fall 2022.

2021

“The Lord’s Remembrancer,” For the Church, February 25, 2021. 

“William Carey: Keeping the Grand End in View,” Midwestern Magazine, Spring 2021. 

“What Nature Can (and Should) Teach Kids About God,” For The Church, July 15, 2021.

“A Symphonious Approach to the History of Missions,” Midwestern Magazine, Fall 2021. 

“Don’t Follow Your Heart,” in Tabletalk (October 2021).

2020
2019

“The Picture of Hope in Suffering,” For the Church, January 29, 2019.

“The Most Important Discovery I Learned in Seminary,” For the Church, March 15, 2019.

“A Fisherman in Ireland: The Enduring Relevance of Patrick,” Evangelical History, March 15, 2019.

“Why Every Christian Should Read Mere Christianity,” Midwestern Magazine, Issue 37 (Spring 2019).

“The Silver Chair and the Solas,” For the Church, April 16, 2019.

“Glorify God: The Shared Task of Churches & Seminaries,” Baptist Press, April 18, 2019.

“Is this a Dream? Engaging Today’s Cultural Reality with Hope,” Theology for Life, May 2, 2019.

“Raising Kids in a World of Cynicism and Worry,” in Home Life, June 2019.

“Glorify God: the Shared Task of Churches & Seminaries,” For the Church, June 6, 2019.

Gentlemen Shepherds and Invisible Sherpas: The Task of Theological Educators,” Permanent Things 1:1 (2019): 58-65.

“Friendship to the Nth Power: Tolkien, a review,” Credo Magazine (June 2019).

“On First Looking into Spurgeon’s Sermons,” For the Church, July 2, 2019.

“The Wittenberg Door of American Evangelical Missions,” For the Church, August 28, 2019.

“Thankfulness Always: Reflections on Five Years as Provost,” For the Church, September 3, 2019.

“The Christian, Art, and Rediscovering John the Baptist,” For the Church, October 10, 2019.

“Thankfulness Always: Reflections on Five Years as Provost,” Midwestern Magazine, Issue 38 (Fall 2019).

“Hope Before a Watching World,” in Tabletalk, November 2019.

“Christians, Art, Rediscovering John the Baptist,” The Pathway, November 4, 2019.

“The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead,” For the Church, November 14, 2019.

“The Theological Educator as Sherpa,” For the Church, December 4, 2019.

“What did Charles Spurgeon Preach at Christmas?” The Spurgeon Library, December 16, 2019.

“Chesterton, Dickens, and Comfort in the Fog,” The Gospel Coalition, December 22, 2019.

2018

“MLK50: The Hope of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Baptist Press, April 4, 2018.

“Christian, choose hope in an age of cynicism,” ERLC, May 1, 2018.

“SBC IN DALLAS: Prayer for Southern Baptist resolutions,” Baptist Press, May 21, 2018.

“Mere Hope,” Outreach Magazine, May 22, 2018.

“A Catasterous Disastrophe,” Outreach Magazine, May 22, 2018.

“Living Mere Hope: Four Ways to Cultivate Hope,” Credo Magazine, May 30, 2018.

“‘Til We Have Faces,” LifeWay Pastors, June 2, 2018.

“A Welcomed Eucatastrophe,” For the Church, June 6, 2018.

“Christians Must Do More Than ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’,” Facts & Trends, June 7, 2018.

“Hope Flourishes Where Praise Rises,” IMB, June 11, 2018.

“Why Every Christian Should Read Mere Christianity,” LifeWay Books, June 12, 2018.

“Who Are the Nations?” For the Church, June 20, 2018.

“Living with Mere Hope,” LifeWay, June 27, 2018.

“FIRST-PERSON: A high view of a low and free church,” Baptist Press, July 6, 2018.

“Unquenchable Love and Unconquerable Hope,” Gospel Driven Discipleship, July 12, 2018.

“Packer’s Dusty Discovery at Oxford in North Gate Hall,” Yesterday, Today & Forever, July 16, 2018.

“How Beautiful are the Adverbs When They Preach Good News,” For the Church, July 20, 2018.

“Reader, If You Seek A Monument, Look Around,” For the Church, August 23, 2018.

“Why Every Christian Should Read Mere Christianity,” For the Church, September 13, 2018.

“For Other Churches, Baptists Assert a High View of a Low and Free Church,” For the Church, October 25, 2018.

“Born Again” – First A Verb Before An Adjective, For the Church, November 23, 2018.

“The Conversion of C. H. Spurgeon: A Lecture,” in Midwestern Journal of Theology (Fall 2018): 77-84.

“The Conversion of C. H. Spurgeon: A Lecture given at the Artillery Street Evangelical Church, Colchester, England, July 13, 2018,” The Spurgeon Library, December 10, 2018.

2017

“Religious liberty: Its true end and ultimate goal,” at ERLC, May 29, 2017.

“The Preacher as Missionary,” at Preaching Source, June 2017.

“The Role of the Anabaptists in the Reformation,” in Light (ERLC, June 2017).

“The Pastor as Missionary,” in Portraits of a Pastor, Jason K. Allen, ed. (Moody, 2017).

“What do Reformation Anabaptists Have to Do with Contemporary Baptists?” in SB Texan (October 2, 2017).

“Humphreys/Patterson–1987: A Southern Baptist Debate on the Atonement,” in MJT (Fall 2017).

“Is this a dream? Engaging today’s cultural reality with hope,” at ERLC (October 25, 2017).

2016

“Like A Steersman in a Storm.” The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 21, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 1–4.

Editor, The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 21.2 (Fall 2016).

Why Study the Doctrine of the Church? For the Church, December 20, 2016.

“The Beginning of Religious Liberty.” B&H Academic Blog, October 25, 2016.

“Courage to Act Like Men in a Culture that Says Otherwise.” MacArthur Blvd Baptist Church, September 30, 2016.

“An Open Letter for Preserving the First Freedom of Universal Religious Liberty.” Canon and Culture, June 10, 2016.

“Hope Lives Till We Have Faces.” The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 21, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 1–3.

Editor, The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 21.1 (Spring 2016).

“‘For the Church’ as a Means to the End at the End.” For the Church, August 24, 2016.

“Throwing Our Hats Over the Wall: Gospel Going When the World Says ‘Stay.’” For the Church, July 26, 2016.

“Carl F. H. Henry and an Air Assault from a Persistent Widow.” For the Church, May 25, 2016.

“At the Mercy of an Air Assault.” Mark Dance Blog. April 18, 2016.

“Finding Refuge in Central Asia, North Africa.” Baptist Press. April 14, 2016.

“Marriage and Family in the Baptist Tradition.” Canon and Culture. January 29, 2016.

“Seeing God in History,” Theological Matters, February 2, 2016.

2015

“Making the History of the Future” Southern Baptist TEXAN, December 23, 2015.

“The Self Reliant Conscience of Evangelical Stoicism” in The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 20.2 (Fall 2015): 1-5.

 

Editor, The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 20.2 (Fall 2015).

“Preaching Against the State: The Persecution of the Anabaptists as an Example for 21st Century Evangelicals,” in Midwestern Journal of Theology 14.2 (Fall 2015): 54-82.

Learning in War Time,” For the Church, September 23, 2015.

Light and Fellowship in the Darkness,” For the Church, July 2, 2015.

“The Gospel on a Houseboat,” For the Church, May 18, 2015.

First Person: The Gospel on a Houseboat,” Baptist Press, May 5, 2015.

“The Age of the Earth: A Conversation Among Bereans,” For the Church, April 26, 2015.

“Meditating on the 9th Commandment with Martin Luther,” For the Church, April 23, 2015.

Light and Fellowship in the Darkness,” in The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 20.1 (Spring 2015): 1-3.

 

Editor, The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 20.1 (Spring 2015).

2014
2013

“A Plea for Ambitious Evangelicals,” in Union University Pulpit, (2013): 43-51.

Book Review: “From Heaven He Came and Sought Her,” on The Gospel Coalition, December 6, 2013.

“Like a Steersman in a Storm: The Courage of Adoniram Judson,” on The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, December 2, 2013.

“Are Christians ever excused from teaching and obeying clear commands in the New Testament?” Theological Matters, October 29, 2013.

“Honor Such Men: The Anabaptists and Contemporary Baptists,” Theological Matters, October 15, 2013.

“Are unbelievers most helped by believers who trust the Bible?” Theological Matters, October 3, 2013.

“Are the most useful churches the ones strongest in their denominational convictions?” Theological Matters, September 5, 2013.

“FIRST-PERSON: Bach & a new semester,” Baptist Press, September 3, 2013.

“Christ Has Defeated Every Sin: Another Hymn Edited,” Theological Matters, August 9, 2013.

“Carl Henry (Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History,” on B&H Academic blog, May 8, 2013.

“Through Thick and Thin: Friends and Friendship in God’s Grand Plan,” Theological Matters, May 7, 2013.

“William Carey (Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History),” on B&H Academic blog, April 24, 2013.

“He Didn’t Want to Rush into Ministry Unprepared: Jonathan Edwards and Theological Education,” Theological Matters, April 18.

“Jonathan Edwards (Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History),” on B&H Academic blog, April 10, 2013.

“Balthasar Hubmaier (Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History),” on B&H Academic blog, March 27, 2013.

“John Calvin (Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History),” on B&H Academic blog, March 13, 2013.

“Martin Luther (Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History),” on B&H Academic blog, February 20, 2013.

“Augustine (Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History),” on B&H Academic blog, February 6, 2013.

“Seven Summits Worth Climbing in Church History: A Theological Biography Series,” B&H Academic blog, January 30, 2013.

“FIRST PERSON: Why We Should Remember Carl F. H. Henry (Who’d Be 100 This Month),” Baptist Press, January 23, 2013.

“After 100 Years, Grateful for our Carl F. H. Henry, Our Once and Future Theologian,” Theological Matters, January 22, 2013.

2012

“For Judson, a Sermon Pointed Him Eastward,” Theological Matters, October 11, 2012.

“For Judson, a Sermon Pointed Him Eastward,” Baptist Press, October 2, 2012.

“Breaking the Strong Attachment to Home and Country: The Influence of a Friend of Fuller’s Friends on Adoniram Judson.” in Southern Baptist Journal of Missions and Evangelism 1.2 (Fall 2012): 6-13.

“FIRST-PERSON: Who Really Was the First U.S. Missionary?” Baptist Press, August 24, 2012.

“FIRST-PERSON: Throwing Our Hats Over the Wall,” Baptist Press, June 29, 2012.

“Missions History for the Colorblind,” Theological Matters, June 21, 2012.

“Throwing Our Hats Over the Wall,” Theological Matters, June 13, 2012.

“Ambition Overthrown: The Conversion, Consecration, and Commission of Adoniram Judson, 1788-1812.” Credo 2, no. 2 (March 2012): 36-40.

“FIRST-PERSON: On Adoniram Judson Bicentennial: Please Go and Dig,” Baptist Press, February 13, 2012.

“On Judson’s 200th: Please Go and Dig,” Theological Matters, February 13, 2012.

“Are Some Commands in the Great Commission More Important Than Others?” Theological Matters, February 9, 2012.

“Pilgram Marpeck: Christian Baptism Is a Witness,” Theological Matters, January 27, 2012.

“Pilgram Marpeck: Christian Baptism Always Leads to a New Life,” Theological Matters, January 26, 2012.

“Pilgram Marpeck: Infant Baptism, of Any Kind, Is Not Christian Baptism,” Theological Matters, January 25, 2012.

“Pilgram Marpeck: Christian Baptism Follows a Christ-established Order,” Theological Matters, January 24, 2012.

“Pilgram Marpeck’s Christian Baptism,” Theological Matters, January 19, 2012.

2011

“Why Chapel is so Critical to the Life of a Seminary,” Theological Matters, December 1, 2011.

“Learning Humility from Church History,” Theological Matters, November 22, 2011.

“SBC DISCUSSION: Healthy Denominationalism or Denominational Ultraism,” Baptist Press, June 2, 2011

2010
2007

“Luther Russell Bush III.” SWJT 50:1 (Fall 2007 [2008]): 6-19.

Duesing, Jason G. and Thomas White. “Neanderthals Chasing Bigfoot? The State of the Gender Debate in the Southern Baptist Convention.” Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 12, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 5-19.

“Learning Humility Through Church History.” The Center for Theological Research, SWBTS, Fort Worth, TX (March 2007)

2006

“‘Power in the Seminary’: 20th Century Pnuematological Distinctives at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.” The Center for Theological Research, SWBTS, Fort Worth, TX (October 2006)

“Pilgram Marpeck’s Christian Baptism.” Faith and Mission 23, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 3-15.

“The Believers’ Church: A ‘Natural Resource’ Worth Conserving.” The Center for Theological Research, SWBTS, Fort Worth, TX (March 2006)

2003

“He is No Fool Who Leads His Church to the Unreached.” The Reformer, The Center for Church Reform eNewsLetter 5:1 (Feb 2003).

“The Impetus for Ecclesiology.” Outlook 52 (Spring 2003): 8.