HSF Conversations: “Tell Me About Your Sermon Prep” with Jeff Jones
In this episode of HSF Conversations, we continue our series “Tell Us About Your Sermon Prep” with Dr. Jeff Jones. Dr. Jones has served as pastor of Hilltop Free Will Baptist Church for over thirty years. He also serves as president of Southeastern Free Will Baptist College where he has taught homiletics for many years. In this episode, he shares with us some of his practices for sermon preparation, including what an ideal...
Thomas Monck’s Apologia: A General Baptist Use of Reformed Orthodoxy to Defend the Trinity
Historian Ernest Gordon Rupp said of Thomas Monck’s Cure for the Cankering Error of the New Eutychians (1673), “No high churchman, no orthodox Anglican, not Daniel Waterland himself produced an abler defence of catholic doctrine.”[1] Monck’s Cure was a biblical and theological polemic against the rising tide of anti-Trinitarianism in England and the emergence of heretical Christology within his own denomination. Rupp’s assessment is...
The Spirit and the Sufficiency of Scripture
One of the key doctrinal principles of the Protestant Reformation was sola Scriptura. This principle emphasized Scripture rather than tradition as the final authority in faith and practice. The Protestant Reformers and their immediate theological heirs affirmed sola Scriptura because they believed that the Bible, as God’s very Word, was sufficient for the doctrine and practice of the Church. They affirmed the sufficiency of Scripture...
HSF Conversations: Ordinary Means of Grace Church Planting
In this episode of HSF Conversations, Ed Goode and Daniel Mann, church planters in Illinois, join us to discuss ordinary means of grace church planting. We discuss church planting books and blogs, whether or not those resources promote ordinary means of grace ministry, what ordinary means of grace ministry is, and what ordinary means of grace ministry looks like in the life of the church. About Ed Goode: I grew up in a happy home and...
HSF Conversations: “Tell Me About Your Sermon Prep” with Corey Minter
In this episode of HSF Conversations, we discuss sermon preparation with Corey Minter, pastor of the New Hope Free Will Baptist Church in Joelton, TN. Corey gives us some insight into his sermon prep throughout the week, some resources he has benefited from, how he helps children focus on the sermon, and how he prepares himself spiritually to...
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