In this episode of the Unashamed Truth Podcast, Grant Castleberry challenges the modern obsession with church growth and exposes the dangers of shallow, seeker-driven Christianity. Drawing from Scripture, Grant explains why Christ is far more concerned with the maturity, holiness, and faithfulness of His people than the size of the crowd.

In recent years, the church has lost several towering evangelical leaders, leaving many grieving and wondering about the future. Yet God has always sustained His church, raising up new shepherds and calling every believer to stand firm, trust Christ, and carry the gospel forward.

I posted on X this past week that the greatest danger to the modern evangelical church is to drift into progressivism. Here’s the full post: “The greatest threat to the modern church: progressivism.

At the end of his life, Charles Spurgeon faced a great controversy in the Baptist Union, which he called the “downgrade.” The Baptist Union would even censure him for his outspoken warnings against it in his magazine, The Sword and the Trowel.

To become a genuine believer in Jesus Christ, a miracle must happen. You must be born again (John 3:3). The new birth, which comes through the Holy Spirit’s application of the Word of God to our hearts, recalibrates our souls (1 Pet. 1:23).

I recently spoke with the dean of theology at a major Christian college. I asked him how things were going in the world of Christian education.

There is a quote I came across in Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s Preaching and Preachers that has stayed with me ever since I first read it years ago. It is somewhat famous, or even notorious, depending on what circles you run in.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) died three years before I was born, but somehow, I feel like I know the man. I was first introduced to the Welsh Lloyd-Jones by two Scotsmen, Sinclair Ferguson …

What God requires first and foremost of every preacher of the gospel is faithfulness. “Preach the Word; be ready in season and out of season” (2 Tim 4:2).

Over fifty years ago, Lloyd-Jones thought that one of the most insidious challenges to the church was none other than a worldliness which was excused for the sake of evangelism. On October 29, 1965,

A few years ago, several evangelical churches in the county where I was serving as an assistant pastor decided to cooperate in sponsoring a series of evangelistic meetings. I helped lead the organizing …

Even one small but pure and holy church “unstained by the world,” that valiantly stands for the gospel against the secular culture we have worked so hard to create, is a great hindrance to our …

The Church is the only God-ordained institution that will last for eternity. In a sense, that brings a great amount of legitimacy and authority to the church, that no other institution has. Ironically, I think …