Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

John Stott (1921-2011)

Todd Pruitt
Jul 27, 2011
I just read news that preacher, churchman, evangelist and evangelical leader John Stott died this morning. John Stott's legacy would be hard to calculate; his impact hard to overestimate. He will be missed.

The Moment-by-Moment Power of the Gospel

Todd Pruitt
Jul 27, 2011
Justin Taylor posted the following exerpt from Francis Schaeffer's article "Why and How I Write My Books" : The way to read my books, then, is to realize that I came through a real struggle in those early days, and I’ve tried to be honest in my study ever since. I try to approach every problem as...

Planting a Church in Camden...

Todd Pruitt
Jul 27, 2011
[vimeo 18002236 w=400 h=225] Epiphany Camden Short from timothy shin on Vimeo .

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Jul 26, 2011
On Sunday I preached part 3 in our current series through Ruth. It is entitled "Not a Chance" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

Not a poster-boy after all...

Todd Pruitt
Jul 26, 2011
From Michael Horton: At least 76 people are dead after Anders Behring Breivik massacred campers on an island off the coast of Oslo, Norway. Finally, the media has a face and a name for making its heretofor unjustified claim of moral equivalency between conservative Christianity and Islam. Religion...

Man's intentions and God's...

Todd Pruitt
Jul 26, 2011
Very grateful for these words: When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died, ‘Say to Joseph, Please...

Never Assume the Gospel

Todd Pruitt
Jul 25, 2011
From D.A. Carson : In a fair bit of Western evangelicalism, there is a worrying tendency to focus on the periphery. [My] colleague . . . Dr. Paul Hiebert . . . . springs from Mennonite stock and analyzes his heritage in a fashion that he himself would acknowledge is something of a simplistic...

The Goal: To Make Disciples

Todd Pruitt
Jul 24, 2011
"The deceptively simple task of disciple-making is made demanding, frustrating and difficult in our world, not because it is so hard to grasp but because it is so hard to persevere in. "This is why we are such suckers for the latest ministry expert, who has always grown a church of at least 5000...

Thanks Carl...

Todd Pruitt
Jul 23, 2011
...for providing a fitting reply to Frank Schaeffer's despicable post concerning the tragic violence in Norway. Read it HERE .

Mohler's Top Ten (or Eleven)

Todd Pruitt
Jul 22, 2011
Al Mohler has posted his picks for books that pastors ought to read in 2011. 1. Collected Writings on Scripture by D.A. Carson (Crossway) 2. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God by Paul Copan (Baker) 3. Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the...