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When Your Pastor Isn’t As Good As Your Podcast

| Heath Lambert |
Years ago, when I was still very new in pastoral ministry, I was a young preacher. This was in a day before podcasts (if you can imagine such a wor…

When Should I Baptize My Young Child?

| Heath Lambert |
If you are a Christian parent, you are going to feel a unique burden as you bring up your children. That burden is you are going to want your child…

Why SBC?

| Heath Lambert |
As you listen to this episode of Marked by Grace, it is dropping on the week of the Southern Baptist Convention. It is dropping on Monday, June 12t…

Should Christians Boycott Target?

| Heath Lambert |
All right, well, this episode of Marked by Grace is dropping on Monday, June 5th. That means this is the first full week of June. This is the month…

Teaching the Gospel to Young Kids

| Heath Lambert |
If you are a Christian and you are a parent, then the most important thing to you in the world is that your kids know the gospel.  It is going to b…

What If My Son Wants to Dress Like a Girl?

| Heath Lambert |
What if my son wants to dress like a girl? That’s the question that I’m going to tackle this week on the podcast. The reality is, as I answer that …

Is the Death Penalty Biblical?

| Heath Lambert |
Is the death penalty biblical? Let me begin by saying that a lot of people wouldn’t ask the question that way. A lot of people don’t care what the …

Is Online Church Real Church?

| Heath Lambert |
Ever since the spring of 2020, we have witnessed a phenomenon of people who have retreated to their homes. Even though they come out to do their gr…

How Do I Forgive Myself?

| Heath Lambert |
I was just speaking with a wonderful woman, a dear and precious Christian lady whom I got to meet in the context of a pastoral crisis. The crisis w…

Should I Believe Online Accusations?

| Heath Lambert |
A while back, I was at a gathering of pastors from all across the country. This gathering of pastors was a very mixed bag. There were pastors in th…

Dr. Heath Lambert has been preaching at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida since January of 2016, and became Senior Pastor in September of 2017. Serving First Baptist is the joy of Pastor Heath’s life. He is delighted to serve with the remarkable members and staff at this incredible church. Prior to serving at First Baptist, Pastor Heath served as the Executive Director of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC), and as a professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He is the author of several books, including The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams (Crossway, 2011), Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace (Zondervan, 2013), and A Theology of Biblical Counseling: The Doctrinal Foundations of Counseling Ministry (Zondervan, 2016).

Heath earned a bachelor of arts (B.A.) in biblical and theological studies and political science from Gordon College in 2002, a master of divinity (M.Div.) in Christian Ministry from Southern Seminary in 2005, and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in biblical counseling and systematic theology from Southern Seminary in 2009.

He is married to Lauren and they have three children: Carson, Chloe, and Connor.