May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. – 2 Peter 1:2 Welcome to Jacksonville, Florida. Welcome to the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church. Welcome to the 2016 Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference! Thank you for joining us for this year’s conference. We are glad you are here. And we are looking forward to a blessed week proclamation, instruction, fellowship, worship, and encouragement. We have strong biblical preachers and teachers who will equip you to declare God’s word more faithfully and clearly. In general sessions, breakout classes, and worship services, you...

We are now one week away from the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference 2016. It will take place September 20-22 at the Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, Florida, where I am privileged to serve. You still have time to join us for Cutting It Straight. If possible, I hope you will attend. And bring members of your ministry team with you. Whether or not you will be able to attend Cutting It Straight this year, I still have a request to make. Please pray for this conference. We have planned and prepared. But, of course, nothing we do will be...

The Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference is just a few weeks away. This conference will meet September 20-22, 2016, at the Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, Florida. The primary purpose of Cutting It Straight is to train, model, and promote biblical preaching and teaching. It is a conference for pastors, preachers, and teachers. But we believe that every thing that happens in the life of the church should be a extension of the ministry of the word. For this reason, we have added several tracks to help local church ministry teams to develop and practice a biblical philosophy of ministry. For...

The 2016 Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference if now a month away. And I am grateful for all of our guest speakers, hardworking staff, and faithful volunteers who will serve us during this year's conference. I am especially grateful for our ministry friends  who have supported and sponsored Cutting It Straight this year. We have great speakers. We will give away helpful resources. We are expecting a blessed meeting. It will be possible because of the Lord has given us wonderful partners. Praise the Lord! Pray for Cutting It Straight that will meet September 20-22, 2016 at the Shiloh...

  Our Father in heaven, We praise you that we can call you our Father in heaven, because of the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you for every act of love, grace, mercy, kindness and favor you have bestowed upon us. And we thank you for watching over our children and families throughout the summer break. As a new school year begins, we pray your special blessings upon every school campus, administrator, teacher, worker, driver, and student. We pray for the school campuses where our children will attend classes. We ask you would put a...

I am excited about the 2016 Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference. It will take place on the campus of the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville (FL), September 20-22, 2016. Cutting It Straight is primarily a preaching conference. Our goal is to train, model, and promote text-driven teaching and preaching. Robert Smith Jr. teaches preaching at the Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, AL. But Smith is not one of the proverbial professors who teach it because he cannot do it. The author of Doctrine That Dances, Dr. Smith is one of the powerful and passionate preaching voices of our...

So What is your vision for this church?  I was not asked this question at my first church. I was the son of the former pastor. I had grown up in the church. I was only seventeen-years-old. They assumed I did not have a vision plan for the church. Or that I did not have vision worth sharing. So they never asked. When I met with the pulpit committee of my present church, however, pastoral vision was a big issue. The committee had no real interest in me becoming their pastor. Yet they still wanted to know, “So what is...

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of god. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. – Psalm 52:8-9 In many instances, the opening line of a psalm reveals its dominating theme. Psalm 52 is a case in point: “Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day” (Psalm 52:1). In this psalm, David confronts the wicked...

Congratulations to the Joe Pace and the Shiloh Church Choir of the release of the first single from their upcoming CD. Pick you your copy of "It is Well" on iTunes and your digital outlets. It was a joy to take part in the 2016 Legacy Disciple Conference this week in Chicago. I gave the ministry challenge to the speakers and led a workshop of biblical preaching. Check out my latest devotional: Praying to Walk Right The On Preaching Podcast: Preaching as a New Pastor An Invitation to the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference 2016 Jared C. Wilson: 8...

The Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference will take place at the Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, Florida, on September 20-22, 2016. This conference is designed to train, promote, and model biblical preaching and teaching. At its core, Cutting It Straight is a preaching conference for pastors, preachers, and teachers. The goal is to help those who preach and teach the word to present text-driven and truth-driven message. But Cutting It Straight is not just for pastors. There are tracks for worship, youth, and women’s ministry leaders to help build word-filled ministries. Expository Preaching Expository preaching seeks to explain what the...

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. – Psalm 25:4-5 Psalm 25 is a psalm of David. But this is all we know about this historical background of this psalm. The psalm reads like the wisdom literature of Proverbs. In that sense, it compliments Psalm 1. Psalm 1 teaches there are two ways to live – the way of the righteous and the way of the wicked – and bids us...

It was a joy to speak this week at the Black Church Life and Family Conference at Ridgecrest. Grateful for this Lifeway event to train and equip African-American churches to make disciples. Because of a scheduling mix-up, I was not able to attend the E.K. Bailey Preaching Conference for the first time in eight years. But I praise God for the good reports I have heard. And I am thankful for the ministry and example of Pastor Bryan Carter and the Concord Church. Mark your calendars for the 2017 E.K. Bailey Preaching Conference - July 10-13, 2017. This past Sunday, I...