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Tom Ascol
Tom Ascol has served as a Pastor of Grace Baptist Church since 1986. Prior to moving to Florida he served as pastor and associate pastor of churches in Texas. He has a BS degree in sociology from Texas A&M University (1979) and has also earned the MDiv and PhD degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas. His major field of study was Baptist Theology. He has served as an adjunct professor for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in their SW Florida extension and has also taught systematic theology and pastoral theology at Reformed Theological Seminary and the Midwest Center for Theological Studies (now Covenant Baptist Seminary), respectively. He was also a Teaching Fellow at the Nicole Institute for Baptist Studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Tom serves as the President of Founders Ministries, an organization committed to reformation and revival in local churches.
June 27, 2023:
Evangelicals continue to have a tenuous relationship with President Trump. Presidential candidates like Mike Pence, Tim Scott, and Ron DeSantis are all courting the evangelical vote. DeSantis was well-received at the Faith and Freedom conference, although he trails the president in polls. Tom Ascol, who gave DeSantis’s invocation after he was reelected, stated that he believes Christians are looking for someone more “principled” like DeSantis. “I don’t think President Trump is a principled man — I think he was a great president,” he said while saying DeSantis “seems to be a man of sincere faith.” --Belief.net: Sunny Hostin of “The View” Criticizes Evangelicals for Supporting Donald Trump After Indictment
Evangelicals continue to have a tenuous relationship with President Trump. Presidential candidates like Mike Pence, Tim Scott, and Ron DeSantis are all courting the evangelical vote. DeSantis was well-received at the Faith and Freedom conference, although he trails the president in polls. Tom Ascol, who gave DeSantis’s invocation after he was reelected, stated that he believes Christians are looking for someone more “principled” like DeSantis. “I don’t think President Trump is a principled man — I think he was a great president,” he said while saying DeSantis “seems to be a man of sincere faith.” --Belief.net: Sunny Hostin of “The View” Criticizes Evangelicals for Supporting Donald Trump After Indictment
Tom Ascol
“Amazing how many professing Christians, even self-designated ‘conservative’ ones, are embarrassed by God’s Word. Just quote some unpopular words of God & watch what happens. Many so-called Christians react the same way that unashamed unbelievers do. It’s a commentary.”
--Tom Ascol; Twitter; 5.30.23
--Tom Ascol; Twitter; 5.30.23
Tom Ascol
The Lord does not treat only our symptoms. He addresses the root cause of all our problems. By the power of His Spirit and His Word, He changes us so that we become “new creations” (2 Cor. 5:17). Sin is not yet purged from the Christian’s heart, though one day it will be. But its power is broken so that, by faith in Christ, we can pursue real holiness from the inside out.
-Tom Ascol; Founders Ministries
-Tom Ascol; Founders Ministries
April 25, 2023: AFA: Reprove, Rebuke, and Exhort
For example, on January 24, in an episode of Real Truth for Today (RTFT), Schreve spoke with Tom Ascol, pastor, author, and president of Founders Ministries, about how the church should respond to homosexuality.
For example, on January 24, in an episode of Real Truth for Today (RTFT), Schreve spoke with Tom Ascol, pastor, author, and president of Founders Ministries, about how the church should respond to homosexuality.
Tom Ascol
“I don’t think President Trump is a principled man -- I think he was a great president........DeSantis seems to be a man of sincere faith.”
-Tom Ascol; Reuters; Cape Coral Florida 4.20.23
Tom Ascol
Those “later times” are here. They have been present since Christ’s first coming and will continue until his return.
Paul intends to encourage Timothy by informing him of the inevitability that some will apostatize. Timothy is pastoring the church in Ephesus—a church that Paul himself planted. Yet, among the members of that church, among those who professed to be followers of Jesus, some would depart from the faith.
From Judas onward the church has been confronted with the painful reality of apostasy. When those who have once been bright, shining lights among the people of God later turn away from the paths of discipleship and abandon the teachings of God’s Word, it is brings great sorrow to fellow church members. Perhaps none feel such sorrows as deeply as those pastors whose responsibility it is to shepherd the flock. --Tom Ascol
Paul intends to encourage Timothy by informing him of the inevitability that some will apostatize. Timothy is pastoring the church in Ephesus—a church that Paul himself planted. Yet, among the members of that church, among those who professed to be followers of Jesus, some would depart from the faith.
From Judas onward the church has been confronted with the painful reality of apostasy. When those who have once been bright, shining lights among the people of God later turn away from the paths of discipleship and abandon the teachings of God’s Word, it is brings great sorrow to fellow church members. Perhaps none feel such sorrows as deeply as those pastors whose responsibility it is to shepherd the flock. --Tom Ascol