Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

Would Augustine invite Muhammad?

Todd Pruitt
Feb 3, 2012
A few months before Elephant Room 2 Thabiti Anyabwile wrote an excellent article outlining his concerns over James MacDonald's invitation to prosperity preacher T.D. Jakes . Sadly, his counsel, and that of many others was rejected. Pastor Anyabwile wrote: This kind of invitation undermines that...

Elders, Pastors, and Protection

Todd Pruitt
Feb 2, 2012
From Mike McKinley : Last Spring, Thabiti shared some statistics about pastors compiled by the Schaeffer Institute . These numbers emerged from research done from 1989-2006, and my guess is that things have gotten worse, not better, since then. The one that struck me most in the report was the fact...

Tim Tebow shows discernment

Todd Pruitt
Feb 2, 2012
Tim Tebow had been scheduled to speak at an event in Ohio led by mega-church pastor Rod Parsley. Parsley, an advocate of prosperity teaching will be sharing the stage with notorious word/faith prosperity preacher Kenneth Copeland. Tebow canceled his plans to appear at the event. That was the right...

Voddie Baucham to preach at The Shepherd's Conference

Todd Pruitt
Feb 2, 2012
Great decision by John MacArthur to host Voddie Baucham as one of the preachers for this year's Shepherd's Conference . Grace Community Church's youth pastor explains why in a thoughtful post .

Carl Trueman weighs in on Trinitarianism, celebrity pastors, and the race card

Todd Pruitt
Feb 1, 2012
Dr. Trueman has apparently seen this video . He responds with a very helpful post on historic Christianity and the cost of defending the truth. Still, let us go back to the fourth century and see how the `middle aged white guy’ critique measures up. Well, at the Council of Nicea in 325, many of the...

The Elephant Room - A Timeline

Todd Pruitt
Feb 1, 2012
Justin Taylor has written a helpful post on the dust up over Elephant Room 2 complete with a timeline. You should read it HERE .

"A Win for Team Jakes"

Todd Pruitt
Feb 1, 2012
Prior to Elephant Room 2 there were a number of black pastors who expressed deep concern about two pastors as influential as Mark Driscoll and James MacDonald lending broad credibility to T.D. Jakes, an unrepentant Modalist (Jakes says now that he is not a Modalist although he is still vague and...

Intelligent Design

Todd Pruitt
Feb 1, 2012
Thanks to Justin Taylor for posting R.C. Sproul's interview of Dr. Stephen Meyer on the subject of Intelligent Design. The following is the first part of that interview. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHZrSuXZkY] Check out the following titles: Signature in the Cell by Stephen Meyer...

Voddie Baucham and the Elephant Room

Todd Pruitt
Jan 30, 2012
Voddie Baucham has written a thoughtful reflection on the recent broo-ha-ha over the Elephant Room. Baucham writes from an interesting vantage point. He was actually invited to participate in Elephant Room 2 but declined for reasons he makes clear. That decision, he found out, would have some...

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Jan 30, 2012
On Sunday I preached part 4 in our current series through Philippians, Partners in the Gospel . It is entitled "A Knowing and Discerning Love" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .