Truth In These Days

Capital Punishment, Pope Leo IX, and Roller Coasters: Three Surprising Life Lessons from News about the Death Penalty Heath Lambert     Christa Pike and the Death Penalty   Americans have been paying special attention to the death penalty lately because of severalstories in the news, not least is the one about Christa Pike. Pike was found guilty of the brutal murder of Colleen Slemmer in 1995 and...

A Plan to Take Back America for Jesus Heath Lambert     Christian Nationalism and American Decline   For years, Christians have noticed the moral decay of our society and have lamented the creeping secularism of our culture. Most Christians do not believe that America was ever a utopian paradise of perfection, but also know our country has drifted from a shared morality and a cultural consensus ar...

Authentic Truth about Artificial Intelligence Heath Lambert     The AI Revolution Is Here   Artificial Intelligence has been in the news a great deal lately, and that is not going to change. But in the last few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about the dangers of AI. In early September, Jacob Coxon, a researcher and developer for artificial intelligence at Anthropic and OpenAI, publicly resign...

The Cold, Hard Truth about Iran Developments in the Conflict with Iran In the last week, there have been several developments in America’s unpopular conflict with Iran. President Trump returned early from Camp David to the White House, and Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprising return to Israel. Both President Trump and the president of Iran have made statements in New York at the meeting of the Uni...

Common Grace and Extrabiblical Information in Biblical Counseling Heath Lambert     Counseling Confusion   ​One of the hallmarks of contemporary counseling debates is the repeated tendency of those who disagree with biblical counseling to egregiously misrepresent the position of biblical counselors. It is common for people with advanced degrees and prestigious academic posts to fail to accurately...

Islam in America 25 Years After 9/11 Heath Lambert     September 11, 2001    On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was living on the North Shore of Boston and was getting ready to leave my apartment for the day when a friend called and said, “Turn on the TVright now.” I did as ordered, and watched aghast as the iconic World Trade Towers were swarmed in smoke and flames. My roommates and I forgot...

The Comprehensiveness of Scripture and The Contemporary Counseling Conflict Heath Lambert     Oceans, Ponds, and the Biblical Counseling Movement The first ocean I ever saw was the one in the field behind a barn in my small hometown of Kentucky. You might have tried explaining to me back then that there are no oceans behind any barns anywhere in the state of Kentucky. It would have been a waste of...

The Tragic Case of Lindsay Clancy Heath Lambert     A Complete Tragedy   For weeks, our entire nation has been riveted by the tragedy of Lindsay Clancy. The tragedy began in January of 2023 when Clancy, overwhelmed, medicated, and clearly in distress,strangled to death all three of her children: Callan, Dawson, and Cora. Her husband, Patrick, arrived at home to discover his three dead children and...

Communion: The Vice President’s Important New Book about Christianity Heath Lambert Communion This summer the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, released a new book entitled, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. Of course, Vance is no stranger to the world of publication having already written Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 memoir about his harrowing journey out of poverty and family...

Four Biblical Problems with Socialism Heath Lambert Is America Going Socialist? One of the biggest stories of the summer and what will prove to be one of the most important issues in the upcoming midterm elections is the growing number of socialist candidates running for elected office across the United States. In electoral politics, the national story of socialism has really orbited around only o...

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...