Truth In These Days

Three Problems with the Roman Catholic Church Heath Lambert In the early 2000s I was at the very beginning of my ministry and times were rough for the Roman Catholic Church. The Boston Globe had released a report detailing years of sexual abuse and cover up by church officials. Back then I was regularly talking to people disgusted by this behavior and wanting to leave the church. A quarter of a ce...

The Mohler Amendment and SBC 2026 Heath Lambert The Truth and Unity Amendment On Monday, May 18, Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, weighed in on the ongoing Southern Baptist confusion regarding female pastors. He did it in a big way. For years now, the Southern Baptist Convention has been in a debate about female pastors. As I have made repeatedly clear, this debat...

The Conflict Over Iran Heath Lambert Epic Fury The American conflict in Iran began on February 28, 2026, and has been controversial from the start. It is called Operation Epic Fury and this week I don’t mostly want to talk about that military conflict but about the relational epic fury related to the conflict that is raging here at home. As the military engagement stretches toward the three-month...

Who’s Bad? What the Legacy of Michael Jackson Says about Us Heath Lambert Michael Jackson became an icon when I was a kid in the 1980s growing up in Eastern Kentucky and was partial to country music. But Jackson’s music struck the culture with a force hard enough to penetrate the foothills of Appalachia, and the heart of a bunch of country boys more personally inclined to George Strait than the fo...

Lessons on Theological Drift from the Biblical Counseling Movement Heath Lambert Days of Drift More than ten years ago, I was in Hawaii for several weeks speaking with David Powlison at a series of conferences. In between events, we spent time on the island’s beautiful beaches. One lovely afternoon I was building sandcastles with our two youngest children and my wife was swimming in the ocean with...

The Dividing Line for Southern Baptists Heath Lambert Conviction or Judgment? The great Southern Baptist Convention of today is defined by the historic doctrinal struggle in the 1970s and 80s known as the conservative resurgence. Back then, theological liberalism had crept into the entities of the SBC, compromising biblical authority and threatening our gospel witness. In one of the great stories...

Why I Want to Die a Southern Baptist Heath Lambert Southern Baptist Bedlam Last week I talked about why I am a convictional Baptist. This week—just over eight weeks before the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Florida—I want to explain why I am a Southern Baptist and why I want to be one for the rest of my life.  A commitment to being a Southern Baptist requires a bit of explanation because...

Why I am a Convictional Baptist (And Why I Reject Infant Baptism) Heath Lambert Debates about Baptism We live in fascinating times when many are evaluating or reevaluating the religious traditions they will join. The people involved in this great reevaluation have not always had a very favorable disposition to the Baptist tradition. Many have looked beyond the Baptists to more High-Church traditio...

Resurrection Hope for a World at War Heath Lambert A World at War As we approach Easter 2026 few things are more obvious than that we are living in a world at war. Often this war is literal as we have seen this year in Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, and other places. In these literal wars, nation states shoot guns, drop bombs, and deploy troops in an effort to kill enough people and destroy enough...

President Trump Takes Christians to School Heath Lambert Donald Trump and Robert Mueller On March 20, 2026, Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Special Prosecutor, died at 81 after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease. That announcement would have made the news under any circumstances. But the news got even bigger on March 21, when President Dona...

What Christians Should Think of Jews Heath Lambert The Jewish People and the Nation of Israel Last week, I talked about the biblical and political reasons to support the nation of Israel. This week, I want to talk about what a Christian view of Jewish people should be, whether those Jews reside in the nation of Israel or not. It is an important question in our contemporary context for surprising r...

The American Alliance with Israel: A Biblical and Political Case Heath Lambert Arguments Over Alliances The big headline for weeks has been the American bombing of Iran. But beneath the surface of that story is a significant controversy about the American alliance with Israel. The immediate context of the controversy has to do with the close partnership between Israel and America in the conflict w...

Facts for Regular Christians on the Bombing of Iran Heath Lambert Just the Facts For the last several months, the relationship between the United States and Iran has been strained. That is saying something for two countries that have been locked in conflict for half a century. The strain exists because Iran refuses to embrace the American demand that their country must never possess a nuclear weap...

Seven Years of the SBC Sex Abuse Disaster Heath Lambert In February of 2019, the Houston Chronicle ran a story entitled “Abuse of Faith,” which detailed various reports of abuse connected to churches in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The reports were a mixed bag: some involved cases with guilty verdicts in courts of law, others involved only accusations; some reports involved church leader...

The Shocking Scale of a Sex Scandal More than six years after his death, the scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s horrifying sex crimes continues to shock many with the incredible scale of the scandal. Epstein is responsible for the victimization of thousands of women. Some of those women died as a result of their abuse. Many others have horrifying stories that threaten to haunt them for the rest...

Words, Tone, and Mood: Four Biblical Categories for Contemporary Christian Communication Heath Lambert The Christian Communication Continuum   For quite some time now, Christians have been arguing over the issue of ministry language, tone, and mood. Those words do not all stand for the same thing, and much has been said about each by many different people. I cannot engage every person or issue in...

Changing the Name of the Southern Baptist Convention by Heath Lambert Time for A Name Change? In June, the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will gather in Orlando, Florida, for their annual meeting. They will approve budgets, make resolutions, send missionaries, and choose their next president. I wonder if the convention should also consider changing its name. Perhaps I will mak...

The Line between Keller and Kirk   The heartbreaking violence in Minnesota is expanding with little evidence that it will soon decrease. It is only one example of the explosive political divisions happening right now in the United States. Such intense division leads to tension among Christians about how to address political issues.    Many believers look at the desperation in our culture and deman...

Truth in Tumultuous Times Christians are alive in tumultuous and confusing times. One of the enduring marks of every season of tumult is the presence of disagreements about truth. When you pay attention to almost any debated matter these days, you will discover that most every problem is not only defined by disagreements over how to analyze and solve problems, but also by basic disagreements about...

The renewed attention on Jeffrey Epstein shows our God-given hunger for truth, the destructive lies of sexual immorality, and the tragic misuse of wealth and power. As Congress demands full disclosure of Epstein’s network, we’re reminded that innocent people long for the light while the guilty fear it. His story exposes a culture that celebrates sinful desire and the devastation that follows, stan...

This week, the longest shutdown in American history finally broke when Democrats were the first to give way. After weeks of hardship on both sides and despite their recent election wins, eight Democratic Senators crossed the aisle to reopen the government. What this moment really reveals is the deep dysfunction of a system that hasn’t passed a true budget since 1997 and has racked up a staggering...

On November 4, 2025, Democrats saw major wins, but the biggest story was New York City electing socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor. His victory highlights the failure of socialism, which tries to fix scarcity by controlling prices rather than letting free exchange determine value. This always leads to shortages because governments can’t know the real costs producers face. While socialists dream of...

This week on The Biggest Story of the Week, we’re talking about one of the most astonishing crimes in recent memory, the Paris Jewel Heist. In less than ten minutes, four men disguised as construction workers broke into the Louvre, overpowered security, and escaped with more than $100 million in jewels. As French leaders call it a national disgrace, this story reminds us of something far bigger th...

This week, we thank God for the long-awaited return of the final Israeli hostages who were held by Hamas for more than two years. Their release marks a moment of both relief and sorrow. As Christians, we must pray for their healing, for peace in the Middle East, and for wisdom among leaders navigating the fragile road ahead. Most of all, this moment reminds us of the reality of evil in our world a...

This week's biggest story is the growing bipartisan concern over the misuse of power within the U.S. Department of Justice. With revelations that the Biden administration investigated Republican senators’ phone records and the Trump administration indicted former FBI Director James Comey, both sides now face accusations of weaponizing the law against political opponents.