The Sanitized Fundamentalist Review

A detailed review of Pastor Jay Reed’s Proverbs 5 sermon at Peachtree Road Baptist Church—examining purity culture, selective vigilance, marital theology, and demographic fear rhetoric inside Independent Fundamental Baptist preaching.

In “By Faith, Dream Edition,” Pastor Jay Reed promises a biblical exploration of dreams through the story of Joseph in Genesis 37. What follows instead is a sermon that quickly detours into climate change denial, anti-vegan jabs, partisan political rhetoric, denunciations of abortion as “demonic,” and fresh attacks on charismatic…

Pastor Jay Reed opens by drawing a hard line: if his teaching is biblical, you’re accountable; if it’s opinion, you can disregard it. That’s the right framework for evaluating any sermon. The problem is that Reed repeatedly claims “this is not opinion” while spending most of his sermon in cultural…

In his latest sermon at Peachtree Road Baptist, Pastor Jay Reed performs a remarkable rhetorical high-wire act. By framing male domestic failure as a ‘design feature’ rather than a character flaw, Reed constructs what can only be described as a Theology of Strategic Incompetence. From the pseudo-science of ‘square fat…

Pastor Jay Reed warns his congregation about “wisdom from beneath”—earthly, sensual, devilish wisdom that masquerades as truth. He’s right that such wisdom exists. What he never considers is whether he might be demonstrating it.