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.

Faith in the Past Tense

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Christians are encouraged, and even commanded, to "have" faith in God. Seems simple enough on the surface, right? Perhaps.  The issue, however, is that, as Christians, we tend to take for granted that we know what having faith means. We are quick to offer a definition of faith from such familiar Scripture verses as, Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is the …

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Walking God’s Divine Tightrope

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The word "place" has a special, well, place, in the vernacular of Christians today, especially when we find ourselves going through something in our life. Conversely, like the word 'place', the word 'something' occupies a similar, well, you know, place, in our terminology as we most often use that word to refer to the specifics …

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No, Jesus Would Not Bake a Cake for a Gay Wedding

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It is interesting that when it comes to pushing the envelope of acceptable societal mores, Christians, and Christianity, are the ones to whom that test is most consistently presented. The latest example of this involves a "gay" couple that is suing a Colorado bakery for discrimination for refusing to bake for them a cake for their planned …

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