On March 9, Dr. Malcolm Yarnell gave a Founders Day address at Southwestern Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, where he serves as the Director of the Center for Theological Research and Associate Professor of Theology. The title of his message is “The Heart of a Baptist” and has…
From the looks of what is being advertised on the centrifugecamps.com site, this summer may be no safer than last summer for teenagers who are innocently set off to camp by parents and churches. This site offers the first day’s lesson of the summer Centrifuge Camps. The Bible Study…
I lived in Florida nearly 19 years before ever setting foot on a cruise ship. It is hard to avoid seeing such ships when you live on the Gulf coast, but I never gave much thought to taking a cruise until a few years ago. Around that time I…
Well, this announcement was made a week ago, which in blogotime is equivalent to 6 months, so I recognize that to the more astute readers here, this is really, really old news. But I just discovered that my blog was awarded a coveted “Wade” award. The award is named…
Tom Hatley, chairman of the trustees of the IMB, has written letters to pastors and all Southern Baptists as well as posting the written rationales for the recent change in IMB baptism guidelines and policies on “private prayer language.” In addtion, the working definition of a church has been…
Today I received two documents related to the controversy involving recent actions of the International Mission Board (SBC) trustees. One of those documents is entitled, “Rationale for the IMB Guideline on Baptism” and the other is “Position Paper on IMB Policy of Glossolalia.” Neither is signed though I am…
Joe Thorn has reported that the April issue of SBC Life will feature an article by Dr. Daniel Akin on Calvinism in the SBC. The article can be downloaded here (provided you wait for the countdown at the bottom of the screen). Joe’s interaction with the article is well…
John MacArthur’s first message at the Shepherd’s Conference was on biblical ecclesiology from Matthew 16. In the process of outlining several (7) foundational principles on which a church is built, he very helpfully described the “hermeneutics of humility” (that characterizes a belief in certitude as arrogance) as an attack…