Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Sign up for my free weekly sermon manuscript email list in the box to the right!  Check out my article: The Happy Dilemma of a Growing Preacher Ray Pritchard: 47 Sermons for the New Year John Piper: Contemporary America and a Call to Prayer David Platt: Our Obligation to the Unreached Thom Rainer: Seven Myths about a Pastor's Workweek Nathan W. Bingham: Top Commentaries on Every Book of the Bible Brian Croft: The Practical Shepherding Series through Zondervan David Murray: 6 Meditations on the Pre-Incarnation  Michael Kruger: A Christmas Present from the Mainstream Media: Newsweek...

Merry Christmas!  A big shout-out to my wife, Crystal Crystal, who celebrated a special birthday this week! I love you! Happy birthday, Sunshine! Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all." Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. - Proverbs 31:28-30 Praying for the family and congregations of two friends who suddenly transitioned to their heavenly reward this week: Pastor Gordon Humphrey and Pastor John Teabout. Check out the Cameron Triggs Interview....

Thanks for the kind expressions as Crystal and I celebrated 16 years of marriage this week!  The Shiloh Church of Orange Park officially launches on January 4, 2015. Please remember this new work in your prayers. World Religion News: Two Florida Pastors Confront Racial Division by Merging Congregations Check out "The Pastoral Ministry of Shaking Hands"  I am excited to be a part of the 2015 Leadership Summit hosted by The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Hope to see you there! Baptist Press: ERLC Turns to race issue for March summit  The 2015 E.K. Bailey Preaching Conference should be awesome!...

Thanks for your prayers, support, and encouragement as we prepare to launch Shiloh Church of Orange Park in January 2105. Huffington Post: Two Florida Churches Merge With Hope of Bridging a Racial Divide Check Out 31 Days of Prayer for Orange Park  I am looking forward to joining the G3 Conference | January 22-24, 2015.  Russell D. Moore: Ferguson and the Path to Peace Carolyn Tomlin: 7 Myths that Keep Pastors from Writing ProPreacher: 10 Reasons I Am Thankful To Be A Pastor  Thom Rainer: Nine Issues Regarding Pastors and Office Hours Eric Geiger: A Constant Struggle in a Growing Church...

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for reading my blog. Enjoy my bulletin board of links.  You should make your way to the 2015 Jacksonville Pastors' Conference hosted by Dr. Mac Brunson and the First Baptist Church. Check out The Making of Shiloh Church of Orange Park  The Call to Ministry: H.B. Charles Jr.  Benjamin Watson on Ferguson  Brian Loritts: It's Time to Listen: Feeling the Pain Despite the Pain Despite the Facts Thabiti Anyabwile: Why I Believe the Grand Jury Got It Wrong and Injustice Triumphed R. Albert Mohler: The Ferguson Moment - A Moral Test for the Nation  Kevin DeYoung: A...

Thanks for reading Saturday Shout-Outs, my online bulletin board. This weekend marks six years the Lord has blessed me to serve the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church of Jacksonville. All praise to God for what he has done, is doing, and will do in and through the Shiloh Church! The SBTS Expositors Summit 2014 was fantastic! Click here to get access to the messages.  The Shiloh Church will host the National Conference on Preaching, May 12-14, 2015. Hope to see you there! Leadership Journal: Finding Time To Study by H.B Charles Jr.  Check out the 9Marks review of my book, On Preaching,...

Thanks for reading my blog. Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board. Enjoy!  Happy Birthday to my Son, H.B. Charles Jr.  My new book, The Difference Jesus Makes, is now available. Preaching Today Interview: The Authentic Preacher: H.B. Charles Jr.  Trevi Wax: Know Your Southern Baptists: H.B. Charles Jr. (CORRECTION: I attended The Master's Seminary & Gordon-Conwell. I do not have any earned degrees). Check out the latest episode of The On Preaching Podcast: Preparing Yourself To Preach Make sure you check out the newest Word & Worship with Joe Pace & HBC2. Hope to see you October 28-30 at the 2014...

Thanks for reading my blog. Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board of things I find helpful. Enjoy! Thanks to Pastor Rodney Lake and the Pembroke Baptist Church of the opportunity to preach the word for your Fall Revival Services. Happy 72nd anniversary to my home church - the Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church of Los Angeles!!! Welcome to Shiloh! Please pray for Pastor Ronald Saunders as he beings his new work as our Pastor of Children & Families. Congratulations to Ralph Douglas West and the Church Without Walls as they enter their new worship facilities in Houston! My new...

Thanks for reading my blog! I hope you find something helpful in this weekly bulletin board that I call, Saturday Shout-Outs. You can sign up for my free weekly sermon manuscript list in the column to the right.   Congratulations to the newly elected president of the National Baptist Convention USA: Dr. Jerry Young, Pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. My new book, The Difference Jesus Makes. came put this week. It is simply about trusting Jesus in every situation. In six readable, biblical, and practical chapters about who Jesus is and what Jesus can do, you...

Happy Labor Day! Thanks for reading my blog! Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board. You can sign up for my free weekly sermon manuscript list in the column. Thanks to Pastor Herb Anderson - a son of the Shiloh Church - and the Emmanuel Baptist Church the invitation to join in your 122nd Church Anniversary! It was a joy for our congregations to worship and fellowship together! Shout-Out to my friend, Pastor Adron Robinson, for the opportunity to minister the word to the Hillcrest Baptist Church this week! Congratulations to David Platt on his election to lead the International Missionary...

Thanks. R. Albert Mohler: Lead with Emphaty, Love Your Neighbors, Let the Truth Come Out - A Response to Ferguson Thom Rainer: When It's Not Time To Quit D.A. Carson: What Are Gospel Issues?  Mike Riccardi: Which Gospel Tracts Do You Use?   R.C. Sproul: There Will Be No Sea In the New Heaven and New Earth Tim Challies: My Favorite Blogs By (and for) Women