Author: Darrell B. Harrison

Darrell B. Harrison is a native of Atlanta, GA. In January 2024, Darrell joined the pastoral staff at Redeemer Bible Church in Gilbert, Arizona, after serving the previous five years at Grace to You, the media ministry of Dr. John MacArthur. He is a Fellow of the Black Theology and Leadership Institute (BTLI) of Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) in Princeton, New Jersey, and a graduate of the Theology and Ministry program at PTS. Darrell studied at the undergraduate level at Liberty University, where he majored in Psychology with a concentration in Christian Counseling, and was the first black person to be ordained as a deacon in the 200-year history of First Baptist Church of Covington (Georgia), where he attended from 2009 to 2015. Darrell is an ardent student of Reformed theology, and enjoys reading Puritan writers such as Thomas Watson, John Flavel, and Richard Sibbes. Darrell is an advocate of expository teaching and preaching and has a particular passion for seeing expository preaching become the standard within the Black Church.

The Fallacy of Gun Control as a Means of Behavior Change

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In 1975, the band Earth, Wind, & Fire released an album entitled That's the Way of the World. Thirty years later, in 2005, Rolling Stone magazine listed the title song, "Way of the World", as one of the 500 greatest songs of all time at number 337. Hauntingly pensive, "Way of the World" speaks to an existential duality …

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Christian, Is What You Believe a Conviction or Merely Your Opinion?

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Image credit: appsdirectories.com “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” Luke 6:46 (NASB) The website religionnews.com recently reported the results of a 2014 Pew Religious Landscape study of where various religious denominations stood on the issues of same-sex marriage and the role of government. As one might expect …

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James Brown: The Godfather of…Theology?

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Image credit: billboard.com I was raised in the "Black Power" era of the 1970s. In many ways, the environment that composed the decade that was the '70s was much like it is today. It was a period of great social and political uncertainty, when the "Soul Music" of inner-city black ghettos was as much a …

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