Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Mar 7, 2012
On Sunday I preached part 9 in our current series through Philippians. It is entitled "To Believe And To Suffer" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

Prophecy Today?

Todd Pruitt
Mar 2, 2012
Nathan Busenitz offers a thoughtful critique of Wayne Grudem's position on the perpetuity of the gift of prophecy - HERE . Busenitz concludes: 1. By creating a category of modern “prophecy” that can include erroneous messages, this view makes it unnecessarily difficult for the church today to...

Top Ten Priorities for Pastors...

Todd Pruitt
Mar 2, 2012
From Brian Croft : The umbrella to which these top 10 priorities all fit come from the direct command to God’s shepherds to “Shepherd the flock of God among you (1 Peter 4:2).” The shepherds are to watch over the flock as one who will give an account (Heb. 13:17) until the Chief Shepherd appears (1...

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Mar 1, 2012
On Sunday I preached part 8 in our current series through Philippians. It is entitled "Living Worthy of the Gospel" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

I Really Need a Trip to this Place...

Todd Pruitt
Mar 1, 2012
Lanier Theological Library The Lanier Theological Library was founded by one the top attorneys in the country and is located very near the church in which I grew up.

Don't Deny Muslims The Son...

Todd Pruitt
Mar 1, 2012
It is evangelistically disastrous when, in an effort to reach Muslims, references to Jesus as "the Son of God" are removed from New Testaments. To tamper with the Sonship of Jesus is to undermine such essential doctrines as the Trinity, the incarnation, the deity of Christ, the humanity of Christ,...

The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Pastor

Todd Pruitt
Feb 29, 2012
From The Blazing Center : The absolute, most important, best thing that you can do for your pastor is to pray for him. I was freshly reminded of that fact this morning when I read 2 Corinthians 1:11 - "You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing...

To Suffer Rightly...

Todd Pruitt
Feb 29, 2012
I was made to see that if ever I would suffer rightly, I must first pass a sentence of death upon everything that can be properly called a thing of this life, even to reckon myself, my wife, my children, my health, my enjoyment, and all, as dead to me, and myself as dead to them. The second was, to...

Assume Not...

Todd Pruitt
Feb 29, 2012
Certainly Jesus' words, "Judge not, that you be not judged" (Matt 7:1) are among the more misunderstood and misapplied words in Scripture. Nevertheless, Jesus is telling something vital. Kevin DeYoung weighs in with a thoughtful post: Too many people, non-Christian and Christian, take Jesus’ words...

"Strengthen Your Weak Knees

Todd Pruitt
Feb 29, 2012
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,...