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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: Preaching and Plagiarism | Ed Litton, J.D. Greear and Lessons for the Church

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Jared Longshore address #Sermongate: the recent exposing of plagiarism done in the pulpit by Pastor Ed Litton, President of the SBC. What constitutes as plagiarism in preaching? What should biblical preaching and sermon preparation look like? How should a church respond when their pastor is in sin?   2022 National Founders Conference: Militant & Triumphant | https://founders.org/2022conference/ A Late Comment on the Recent Convention | Tom Nettles: https://founders.org/2021/07/12/a-late-comment-on-the-recent-convention/ By What Standard? BOOK: https://press.founders.org/shop/by-what-standard-gods-world-gods-rules/ Pastor Plagiarism Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAW1eRP0sfZDsX3sscnWHeQ Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe: https://press.founders.org/shop/fault-lines-the-social-justice-movement-and-evangelicalisms-looming-catastrophe/ Statement from Pastor Ed Litton: https://goredemption.com/pastors-statement/ The 2021 Southern Baptist Convention: What Just Happened?: https://founders.org/2021/06/17/the-2021-southern-baptist-convention-what-just-happened/ The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org/ Become a part of the F.A.M. | https://press.founders.org/fam/ Strong and Courageous: Following Jesus Amid the Rise of America's New Religion | https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/ WATCH NOW: Founders Cinedoc: By What Standard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFHfa0s1XLM   Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/   All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sword and the Trial, a podcast of Founders Ministries. Founders Ministries exists for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of Churches. I'm Jerry Longshore. I'm Tom Askell. Thanks for listening to The Sword and the Trial today. Delighted to have you with us. We are quite excited about the Institute of Public Theology, which is launching this fall. We have two courses teed up coming at the end of August. Dr. Tom Nettles is going to teach a course,

0:24.1

and then you're going to be teaching a course on pastoral theology and being a pastor in the public square.

0:29.9

We also have a convocation scheduled with Dr. Everett Piper. We're going to have a wonderful time together.

0:35.6

Yeah, that's on a Saturday, August of 28th, and you're invited to attend this.

0:39.2

You do need to RSVP.

0:40.4

You can go to the website Institute of Public Theology.org and find out more information there.

0:46.3

We want to take a moment, too, just to thank all of our Founders Alliance members and

0:49.7

Founders Alliance churches.

0:50.7

We're not able to do what we do apart from your prayer support and your financial

0:55.2

support. And if you want more information about how you can partner with us, just go to the

0:58.8

founder's website and there's information there about both the fam and the fact. While you're there,

1:04.0

you should check out our conference coming up in January, January 20th through the 23rd, militant

1:09.9

and triumphant on the doctrine of the church.

1:13.1

That's going to be down here in southwest Florida.

1:15.8

You'll be preaching Tom.

1:17.0

I'll be preaching.

1:18.1

Vody Bakum will be preaching.

1:19.7

Conrad and Bayway will be preaching.

1:21.6

And Pastor James Coates from up in Canada will be joining us.

1:24.7

And we're going to have a wonderful time.

1:25.9

We had a blast last year at the conference, and we're looking forward to seeing everybody again for this year's conference.

1:32.6

Yeah, and speaking of Voddy Balkham, he is one of the founding faculty members of the Institute of Public Theology.

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