The story of Buford Pusser, the legendary sheriff of McNairy County Tennessee, is fascinating. Pusser's career as a wrestler came to a close so he moved his family back to his home place to run a sawmill with daddy Carl. He's shocked to discover the level of corruption going on. And after he is a vi...

I generally don’t introduce myself as “Ben Gray, Southern Baptist Minister.”  I consider it a fairly wise practice on my part because when folks do (inevitably) find out that I’m not only a minster, but a minister in a Southern Baptist church, the way in which they relate to...

The percentage of Americans who follow no religion has doubled since 1990, according to a new survey of religious identity. At 15 percent, they are now the third largest group, behind Catholics and Baptists. The Christian majority has dwindled by 10 points in the last 18 years. While only 1.6 millio...

For those of you who are interested, here is a rundown of the next few weeks, and a review of the past few weeks, from the pulpit of Pleasant View Baptist Church.  I am currently preaching through the Gospel According to Mark. All sermons from my pastorate at PVBC are recorded (with the exception o...

Last week, Tom Ascol expressed his concerns about the vision of Baptist Identity and in particular, their rejection of theological triage using a chapel message delivered by Dr. Malcolm Yarnell on October 30, 2008 at SWBTS chapel.  The message Dr. Yarnell preached was entitled “The Essentials...

In light of comments made by a certain group of Church of Christ ministers, I was wondering how many of you think John chapters 14-16 apply to us today? Is it relavent or were those chapters only to be applied to the disciples. Please explain you response. Thanks. God Bless Till all are one....

It actually disturbs me a little that I was able to correctly identify the manuscript in the tiny, low-resolution picture used to illustrate the recent BBC story about the cybernetic William the Conqueror clone from 2055 as the Macclesfield Psalter. Probably some of my readers thought I was just mak...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week affirmed the Casper, Wyoming City counsels decision not to allow anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas to place an anti-gay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Iftin's first graduating class! Back Row: Leila, Hawa, Samiya, Faiza, Zahra, Safiya and Falastin. Front Row: Khadija and Aisha. The teacher's tent! Erica, Zahra and Nelius at the graduation ceremony held in the Eastleigh Community Centre's vocational training square on Friday morning, February 27th....

Got called tonight that I "might" have to preach.  "Might" means probably after I heard my pastors schedule tomorrow morning at the airport. After scrambling to decided a topic, I played sermon roulette by deciding I will either preach from the lectionary or something from 1 Peter that I had resear...