About David Prince

David E. Prince is pastor of preaching and vision at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky and assistant professor of Christian preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of In the Arena and Church with Jesus as the Hero. He blogs at Prince on Preaching and frequently writes for The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, For the Church, the BGEA and Preaching Today

Happy New Year: Prepare to Die!

Psalm 90 meets the new year with unsentimental honesty: we are mortal, our days are limited, and we live before a holy God. Yet Psalm 90 is not gloomy; it offers deep hope. It urges

Christmas Is for Sufferers

Every December, I hear a similar disheartened confession from sincere people: “I just can’t enjoy Christmas anymore.” Why?. There has been a loss. A chair at the table is empty. A diagnosis has intruded. A

Genesis 3:15 and the Story of Scripture

One verse. Genesis 3:15.Just one sentence, but it is the beating heart of the biblical story. It is the first gospel announcement spoken into a world suffocating under sin and rebellion. Everything else, Noah’s floodwaters,