Brad Daniel

I am a follower of Jesus, husband to Stacy, dad to Amberlie and Emma and Papa to Aubrie and Ryker. Mission Engagement Pastor at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

So apparently I’m embroiled in some sort of controversy. Let me set a few things strait:

1. I don’t know Sam Allberry personally. We've met in-person a total of once — back in January while I was in Nashville when I did the Shawn Ryan Podcast, where I ran into and took a picture with Sam. When I saw the news initially about his removal from leadership I took that picture down. I had already started to see people commenting that by keeping it up I was implicating myself in his sin. I do not think they were correct. But ironically, said comments were then replaced with ones telling me that by taking it down… I was hiding something and implicating myself in his sin. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

2. I believe the language in the current public statements to be potentially unhelpfully vague. From my (brief though not uninformed) understanding of the details of the situation, what Sam did that disqualified him from leadership was not due to sexual or even a romantic impropriety, but what could best be described as a sinful emotional attachment. This is not to justify it or say that it wasn't disqualifying (I think it probably was). But the lack of clarity has left room for those who desire to gossip, defame, and sinfully speculate online to run wild — which they have.

3. I am genuinely saddened with the internet’s desire to tear down and jump to harsh judgements regarding another Christian’s failing. When someone falls into sin, those who are spiritually mature should work toward their restoration, approaching them with a spirit of gentleness (Gal. 6:1-2). The motivation for restoration carries spiritual weight. Bringing someone back who has wandered from truth saves their soul from death and covers a multitude of sins (James 5:19–20). This isn’t merely about correcting behaviour, it’s about spiritual rescue. The desire to gossip and breed quarrels, which is so obviously warned against in scripture (Proverbs 17:19; 26:17; 2 Timothy 2:14, 23-24; Titus 3:9-11; James 4:1-2) is, to say the least, lamentable and disappointing to see.

4. Sam Allberry is being labelled as “Side B,” this is genuinely confusing to me. To quote Sam in his own words: “Same sex attraction is not a good thing. It is... a consequence of the fall. ...This kind of attraction is not something God designed for us, and it contradicts his design” (Is God Anti Gay, 63). Sam has expressed in multiple places throughout his written work and public talks that he holds to the biblical position of marriage, that homosexual relationships are sinful, and that identifying as a “gay Christian” is incompatible with scripture. To be clear, I don't agree with Sam on all the nuances of how he discusses the issue. But I can only conclude that this attempt to make him into an LBGT advocate comes from either shear ignorance of his public work or some sort of internet-level frothing of the mouth to jump on whoever “we don’t like this week.”

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. - Heb 3:13.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea pulled a corpse off a cross with his bare hands.

Blood under his fingernails. The weight of a dead man sagging into his arms.

He wrapped God in linen, pressed the fabric into wounds that were still wet.

Nicodemus brought seventy-five pounds of burial spice. A king's funeral for a man the world just murdered.

They carried Him into a hole in the rock and rolled the stone shut.

And everything you've ever done went in with Him.
Every night you can't sleep because of what you did. Every morning, you can't look in the mirror. The thing you did to her. The thing you did to them. The
lie you've been carrying so long it feels like bone.

The version of you that drinks alone and pretends tomorrow will be different.

That man was buried with Christ.

Stone sealed. Done.
Not managed. Not in therapy. Not on a payment plan with God where you slowly earn your way back. Buried. In a tomb. Under rock. Gone.
Three days of silence. Three days of a cold body in the dark.

Then the stone moved.
And when He walked out, the grave clothes were folded on the slab. He didn't stumble out tangled in death. He left it sitting there like a man who's done
with the clothes he used to wear.
Lazarus needed someone to unwrap him. Death still clung to him even after he was breathing.
Jesus folded His own burial linen and walked out clean.

That's the difference between religion and resurrection. Religion unwraps you slowly. Asks you to manage your sin. Attend the class. Read the book. Try harder next week.
Resurrection says the man who walked into that tomb is dead. The man who walked out doesn't know him.
You're not fixing the old you. The old you is in a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, and he's not coming back.
The man reading this, the one who thinks he's too far gone, you're not too far. You're already buried. The funeral happened two thousand years
ago.
Now get up. The stone's already moved. The linen's already folded.

Walk out.

[Brad Daniel @BradDaniel]

Great story! I was able to perform Cole and Kiley’s wedding. What an incredible journey they have been on.

[Christianity Today @CTmagazine]

Cole Lemasters used ChatGPT to reveal a false cancer diagnosis in his wife.

“I won’t say that [it] saved her life,” he said. “But I believe God used it to save our future.”
https://t.co/OL0XsgOvHT

[Brad Daniel @BradDaniel]

@SamMcDowell11 Great column, Sam. He is so much more than the numbers!

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Haven’t had to say this before January in a long time but…Pitchers and catchers report in 67 days. Go Royals! #kcroyals

[Brad Daniel @BradDaniel]

@drantbradley Message me. I’m a pastor in KC area

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@JasonCurry Some “yes’s” are easier than others!

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@ChaseDaniel 3 different times

[Brad Daniel @BradDaniel]

@Sean_McDowell I put “no”, but I can also see a “yes”. Ultimately, what part of that decision is dependent on why the person who killed him did so?
While Charlie’s faith drove him, he wasn’t an evangelist like we would consider the apostles. Great question to think about.

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@JasonCurry @FinishEmpty

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Pitchers and catchers report Friday. #Royals

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@JasonCurry In my sleep

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@ChaseDaniel Buffalo. 100%
If we win and go on to 3peat, we can say we beat every team we played. If we don’t win, I would much rather lose to Josh Allen than Lamar Jackson.

[Brad Daniel @BradDaniel]

@WesWeather from Kearney…it isn’t snow-more like sleet but very light.

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@jasonkovacs The Gift of Being Yourself by David Benner
Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy by Mark Vroegop

[Dave Holtzman @DHoltzy]

My town is coming alive…

#KCRoyals #BlueOctober

[Brad Daniel @BradDaniel]

Most incredible baseball game I have ever been to! Can we start another run, @Royals ? It could be another really fun month. #huntforblueoctober

[Kansas City Royals @Royals]

Ten years ago tonight.

[Brad Daniel @BradDaniel]

Blue October activated! Let’s go!

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@jazayerli Hoz? Lightning in a bottle?