Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Thanks to Dr. Paul Nyquist for the opportunity to speak at Moody's 2014 ReFocus Pastors Conference. A big shout-out to our Pastor of Worship, Joe Pace, for leading Praise Night 2014 at the Shiloh Church this weekend. It was a great night of corporate worship! Check out my new post: Gospel Artists, Please, Pick a Side! Registration is open for the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference I will host at the Shiloh Church in Jacksonville on September 24-26, 2014. Make plans to meet us for this great event. And tell your friends.   Chris Hefner:...

Thanks for reading my blog site. Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board of things I find helpful and interesting. Enjoy! Shout-out to Michael Diduit the Preaching.com team for the opportunity to speak at the National Conference on Preaching in Atlanta. Looking forward to hosting the NCP2015 in Jacksonville!  Shout-out to Bishop Alexis Thomas for inviting me again to speak at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix! Shout-out to the SBTS Southern Blog for posting my article: Summer Vacation for Full-Time Christians I am excited about the initial interest in the upcoming Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference. It...

Thanks for reading my blog. Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board of things I find interesting and helpful. You can sign-up for email updates of future post in the side panel.   Happy Mother's Day to my wife, Crystal! I love you! Thank you for everything you do for me and our three Terrorists... I mean, children.   A big shout-out to Dr. Fred Luter for the opportunity to preach at the great Franklin Avenue Baptist Church this week. What a pastor! What a church! What a meeting! Check out this week's post: Three Keys to Effective Sermon Preparation...

My new book came out this week, entitled, On Preaching. I hope you will pick up a copy. And thanks to all of you who have already bought it. I pray you find it helpful! Shout-out to the Antioch District of St. Louis for the opportunity to preach during your revival service this week! I hope to see you at the National Conference on Preaching in Atlanta (May 13-15). I also hope to see you at the Moody Pastors Conference in Chicago this month. I am scheduled to speak Wednesday evening, May 21. Registration is open for the Cutting It Straight...

It was a joy to participate in the 70th annual Simultaneous Revival in Oklahoma City this week. My father used to preach this meeting. And I first preached it when I was 16-years-old. Thanks to Pastor John Reed and the Fairview Baptist Church. Registration is open for the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference that will take place at the Shiloh Church in Jacksonville, September 24-26, 2014. I pray this event becomes a moment that increases the tribe of faithful, Bible preachers and teachers. And I hope to see you there! My new book, On Preaching, will be released on May 1....

Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board of news and notes and ministry links. Thanks for reading. Congratulations to Dr. Maurice Watson for 10 years of pastoral leadership of the Beulahland Bible Church! I hope you will join us for the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference in Jacksonville (September 24-26, 2014). Cutting it Straight 2. </p>My new book is less than a month from its release date: "On Preaching."  I am teaching a series on the relating to God the Holy Spirit in our Midweek Service at the Shiloh Church. And I have been writing a series of summaries...

Thanks to Bailey Smith for the opportunity to speak at the Real Evangelism Conference Friday night at the Wheeler Grove Baptist Church in Corinth, Mississippi. A big shout-out to all of the Shiloh Church volunteers who served our community during our Make a Difference Day! We were rained out. But you still let your lights shine.  You make it happen! Thanks for your partnership in the gospel. I am excited about the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference that will meet in Jacksonville, September 24-26, 2014. Registration will open on April 15, 2014. I hope you will join us for this...

Thanks for reading my blog. Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board of things I have found helpful and worth noting. You can sign up for email updates of future posts under the picture to the left. I am looking forward to being a part of the Biblical Exposition Conference in Chicago in a few weeks. You still have time to register for the National Conference on Preaching 2014 in Atlanta. We are gearing up for the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference this Fall. Hope you will join us this September in Jacksonville. You can now pre-order my new...

Thanks for reading my blog. You can sign up for email updates of future posts under the picture to the left. SPECIAL NOTE: I received news that Dr. Timothy Winters, longtime Pastor of the Bayview Baptist Church in San Diego passed away this morning. Pastor Winters was a faithful shepherd, sound preacher, and friend of preachers. I will always be grateful for the investments he made in him. Please remember the Winters family and Bayview Church in your prayers. I had the joy of speaking at the Watermelon Shed Revival in Tifton, Georgia, this week. Had a blast! Thanks to...

Thanks for reading my blog! Saturday Shout-Outs is my weekly bulletin board. Hope you find something useful here. Shout-out to Bailey Smith for the opportunity to speak a the Real Evangelism Conference this week in Charlotte. It was a great experience! It was way cool to host Youth Quake Live at the Shiloh Church this weekend. Check out my interviews Bryan Loritts and Phillip Pointer. Read my new post: "In Praise of Long Pastorates" Thabiti Anyabwile: Why We Should Reject Queen Bey's Depiction of Black Womanhood R. Albert Mohler: Inerrancy: a modern definition of an historic view John Piper: Some...

Please pray for Dr. John A. Reed, his family and congregation, as he celebrates the homegoing of his wife of 52 years today in Oklahoma City. Shout-out to our youth pastor, Cameron Triggs, and his volunteer team for leading a purity conference this weekend with more than 100 teens from Shiloh Church. You can preorder my upcoming book, "On Preaching," which will be released May 1. Make sure you check out the A. Louis Patterson Jr. Interview. Read "On Praise Dancing." Ray Ortland: Faithful Pastor, You're Not Crazy Daniel Darling: What Pastors Owe Their People Nathan Busenitz: Are Tongues Real Languages?...

Thanks to all of you who offered me birthday wishes this week. Very kind. Truly encouraging. Thanks again. Suzy Keith, a longtime member of the Shiloh Church church, passed away this week. She was 96-years-old. Her service, kindness, and faithfulness will long be remembered. Pray for my Pops, Dr. John A. Reed, Jr., his family, and the Fairview Baptist Church of Oklahoma City. This week, Pastor Reed's wife of 52 years, Patricia Reed, transitioned from earth to glory. My friend, Joe A. Carter, who serves the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, was to be our guest speaker this week....