Pastor Shaun Marksbury

“A Calvinistic Baptist? Our Heritage” (Rom. 8:29–30, Various) Series:               “Reformation Day Sermons” #8         Text:                 Romans 8:29–30, Various By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                October 26, 2025 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:          PM Service   I.  ...

Founders Ministries gave a great recap of the 2025 SBC annual meeting, for any who are interested.  

  Figuring Out About Jesus ( John 7:10–18) Series:               “John: Life in Christ’s Name”           Text:                 John 7:10–18 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                June 25, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:             AM Service   I.   ...

Biography; links referenced in the lesson: Baptist Faith and Message , Article 6, "The Church" https://bfm.sbc.net/bfm2000/#vi Saddleback Instagram post announcing the ordination of women pastors: https://www.instagram.com/p/COlsXgCBo9b/  "Rick Warren Reveals Successor, Retirement Date as Saddleback Church Pastor" https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/june/rick-warren-retirement-saddleback-church-pastor-andy-wood.html Mike Law's list of SBC churches with female pastors (originally posted at SBC Voices, but the list was taken down, so this is the archive version): https://web.archive.org/web/20230404021912/https://www.baptiststandard.com/wp-content/uploads/Mike-Law-list-Churches-with-Female-Pastors-from-churches.sbc_.net_-compressed.pdf "Video! Rick Warren Rebukes the SBC for Daring to Remove his Church over Ordaining Women" https://protestia.com/2022/06/15/video-rick-warren-rebukes-the-sbc-for-daring-to-remove-his-church-over-ordaining-women/ Ri...

As a former Southern Baptist Church, it's important for us to know about what's happening within the convention.  This is especially true as the next national convention draws near.  So, this past Wednesday, we considered the sad story from a couple of years ago:  This is part of a larger documentary called Enemies Within The Church.  You can learn about that on their website,  www.EnemiesWithinTheChurch.com .

This was an excellent discussion: Rick Warren recently was on a Christianity Today (or Astray) podcast with Russell Moore (former head of the ERLC and influential in Southern Baptist circles). Warren's church (Saddleback) was recently ejected from the SBC due to their hiring of women pastors, including a male/female pastor team to replace him in retirement, all which runs contrary to the Baptist Faith and Message (BFM2000). Warren argued that the Bible allows women pastors based on strained texts, essentially saying, "I know the clear texts that disallow it, but since there are other texts that seem to allow it, we should, too." He claims that he has repented of his male-only pastoral view, and that his change was entirely biblical and uninfluenced by culture --- yet, his new understanding coincided with the cresting wave of the #metoomovement and #churchtoo claims that we "need" more women in leadership. Considering that the besetting sin of Warren's...

Here is the video I mentioned this morning in my sermon.  This arose about a year ago and still hasn't been resolved.  A group called Enemies Within the Church created a mini-documentary covering the events: If you are curious as to some of the recent fallout, here is Jon Harris engaging in an extended roundtable discussion: For more video content, here is the Sword and the Trowel broadcast discussing the situation a year ago, after the news broke: Finally, here is the Conversations that Matter video from earlier this year discussing the same: