Author: Heath Lambert

Light in Dark Places

Written by Heath Lambert on January 17, 2022. Posted in First Thoughts.

I am sure you have noticed by now that it seems like nobody knows how to talk to each other anymore. Everyone is angry all the time about everything. The way we all talk to one another has sunk so low that it is hard to imagine how terrible it could be to hit rock bottom. Social media highlights this ugly mess. Social media gives everyone a microphone—no group hires you, no committees exert oversight, and no editor can push back. Social media also gives everyone an immediate microphone—you don’t have to think, pray, or receive counsel about what you will write, but you can immediately proclaim your thoughts, regardless of your emotional state. Social media also gives you an immediate microphone to the whole world—a private disagreement between two people or a local problem in one...

How Should Christians Respond to Abuse Allegations?

Written by Heath Lambert on January 17, 2022. Posted in Marked By Grace.

Abuse Allegations One of the things you can’t miss in the Christian conversation happening right now is that allegations of abuse are getting a lot of new attention. We have been talking about this in a really fresh way for the last several years. And the first thing I want to say about that attention is that it is really good that we are paying attention to these abuse allegations, into these charges of abuse. It’s really good attention. A lot of the attention that has come about in the last few years, so many of the disclosures have made it clear that this is an area where the Church of Jesus Christ has really needed to grow in wisdom. The church, while not always guilty of malicious intent, has nevertheless good intentions notwithstanding done damage to abuse victims and...

How Should Christians Respond to Fallen Pastors?

Written by Heath Lambert on January 10, 2022. Posted in Marked By Grace.

Fallen Pastors I want to begin by giving you a list of names. And let’s see if you can notice the common thread that goes through this list. Here they are. Josh Harris, Mark Driscoll, James MacDonald, Bill Hybels, Ravi Zacharias. I can keep going with more names. You’ve just read the names of very different kinds of men with very different kinds of ministries. But if you’ve been paying attention over the last several years, you know that the common thread that runs through each of those names is that these are men who did not make it in ministry. They are men whose lives and testimonies gave the lie to how they presented themselves. Some of these men ended their ministry in disgrace. Some of these men don’t know that their ministries have been fatally...

My Endorsement for SBC President

Written by Heath Lambert on January 10, 2022. Posted in First Thoughts.

The Way Leadership Works When God does a great work, he raises up a great leader. This is an obvious fact of Scripture. When God delivered his people from Egypt, he raised up Moses. When God wanted to rebuild his temple and Jerusalem, he raised up Ezra and Nehemiah. When God wanted to preach salvation to the Gentiles, he raised up Paul. Examples could be multiplied with David, Gideon, Elijah, Peter, John, and Jesus himself. What is true in Scripture is also true in Church history. Whenever God has given revival, he has given an Edwards, a Whitfield, a Wesley, a Spurgeon, or a Graham. A rule of redemptive history is that when God’s people are floundering, they are absent a leader. And Southern Baptists are floundering. A Leadership Problem One of the reasons Southern Baptists have been...