Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Jun 12, 2012
On Sunday I preached part 21 in our current series through Philippians. It is entitled "Living in Light of the Nearness of God" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

The Gospel For Real Life

Todd Pruitt
Jun 8, 2012
Check out these new resoures from the Association of Biblical Counselors and P&R.

More Summer Reading...

Todd Pruitt
Jun 7, 2012
So, I've added a few titles to my summer reading : The Juvenilization Of American Christianity by Thomas Bergler Six Days Of War by Michael Oren

Southern Baptists And Salvation

Todd Pruitt
Jun 7, 2012
Until about three-and-a-half years ago, I had been a life-long Southern Baptist. I was trained in a Southern Baptist university and seminary. I served in Southern Baptist churches as a youth pastor, and later as a senior pastor. For years there has been a controversy within the Southern Baptist...

The Attributes Of Scripture

Todd Pruitt
Jun 6, 2012
From Kevin DeYoung : Historically, Protestant theologians have highlighted four defining attributes of Scripture: necessity, sufficiency, clarity, and authority . Each of these attributes is meant to protect the truth about the Bible and safeguard against common errors. The doctrine of Scripture’s...

Whate'er My God Ordains Is Right

Todd Pruitt
Jun 5, 2012
Whate’er my God ordains is right: His holy will abideth; I will be still whate’er He doth; And follow where He guideth; He is my God; though dark my road, He holds me that I shall not fall: Wherefore to Him I leave it all. Whate’er my God ordains is right: He never will deceive me; He leads me by...

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Jun 5, 2012
On Sunday I preached part 20 of our current series through Philippians. It is entitled "The Agreement That Trumps Division" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

A Prophet In Rough Clothing

Todd Pruitt
Jun 2, 2012
Before any great achievement, some measure of the same depression is very usual. Surveying the difficulties before us, our hearts sink within us. The sons of Anak stalk before us, and we are as grasshoppers in our own sight in their presence. The cities of Canaan are walled up to heaven, and who...

Something is wrong with our ego

Todd Pruitt
Jun 1, 2012
In his new and helpful little book (a pamphlet really), The Freedom Of Self-Forgetfulness , Tim Keller writes: The ego often hurts. That is because it has something incredibly wrong with it. Something unbelievably wrong with it. It is always drawing attention to itself - it does so every single day...

"The gospel is powerful in spite of us, not because of us"

Todd Pruitt
May 31, 2012
How often we overestimate our importance! It's not that the way we live does not matter immensely, for it does. It's not that our living does not impact our effectiveness to advance the gospel, for it does. But let us not forget that the power of the gospel does not come from us. The gospel has...