There is no more important balance to maintain than that of “truth and love.” ...Someone once said “your life speaks so loud, I can’t hear what you’re saying.” They love being right, they love quoting the Reformers or their favorite Bible teacher, but in fact they are unloving. (click title above to download complete message...)
Every missionary I know says that their greatest need is prayer. It is true of faithful servants all over the world. How can we best pray for our missionaries? (click title above to download complete message...)
The Bible consists of sixty-six different books.Thirty-nine of them make up the Old Testament.Twenty-seven of them make up the New Testament.We want to deal with how these specific sixty-six books came to be our Bible. What is the history of the composition of Scripture?(click title above to download complete message...)
The Bible appears to be a bit confusing to many Christians. As evangelicals, we’re convinced that the Bible is the Word of God. Yet, we wonder why the Bible seems a bit awkward. (click title above to download complete message...)
One of the amazing aspects of Christ’s life was His purposeful association with the Old Testament. All that Jesus ever did or said was set against an Old Testament backdrop. Jesus lived in light of existing revelation. It is virtually impossible to understand much of the gospels without a great deal of Old Testament insight. (click title above to download complete message...)
Pastor Toby Johnson is the new senior pastor of Gray Road Baptist Church!
Personal Background of Toby and Susan Johnson
Toby Johnson was born in 1975 in Cookeville, Tennessee, and was raised in Knoxville. He gave his heart and life to Christ at youth camp in the summer of 1990, and committed to full-time pastoral ministry as a sophomore in college, while a counselor at youth camp.
He graduated suma cum laude from the University of Memphis in 1997 and from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY in 2003.
Toby has served in pastoral ministry for the past 10 years in different roles, including Senior Pastor of Alta Loma Baptist Church near Nashville, Tennessee.
Susan was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, and she is described by her husband as “an incredible” wife, mother, homemaker and freelance photographer. She and Toby met in Nashville on a riverboat called the General Jackson, and were married 10 months later in 1998.
Toby and Susan have four children…
Caleb is 9 and is just beginning to learn the piano
Austin is 7 and loves to build just about anything
Emilie Grace is 4 and loves to read and play on the computer
Georgia is 3 and likes to do crafty things and fix Mom’s hair
