Dr. Denny Burk, Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, will interview me about integrity in church membership and the resolution that I have submitted to the Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution committee for the annual meeting in San Antonio next month. The radio station…
Tickets for the 2007 Founders Breakfast, held in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention in San Antonio, Texas are still available. The deadline for ordering a ticket is June 6, or until we are sold out. Voddie Baucham will speak on “Southern Baptists at Sardis.” Tickets are only [EDIT:…
EDIT: There was no wifi available at the convention center, so the “live-blogging” never materialized. For a full account of the conference, check out the New Attitude blog. Here I am, writing from the backseat of a borrowed mini-van heading down the highway towards the Nettles home in Louisville,…
This is Rebecca for the NA crew here in Louisville. Praise God, we made it all the way here safely! We have all had an amazing time so far, even though the conference has not started yet. I sat next to a girl on the flight out of Fort…
Seven outstanding young adults from Grace Baptist Church are enroute to Louisville, Kentucky for the New Attitude Conference. Among them are my children, Rebecca and Rachel. They and their traveling buddies, Ricky, Daniel, Darcie and Rachel H., have agreed to guest-blog the conference here as they have opportunity. The…
On May 3, 2007 the Florida Senate passed a resolution calling on the residents of our state to pray “that God would have mercy on our state” as we approach another hurricane season. Not only Florida but nearly the whole Gulf Coast region and much of the Atlantic Coast…
Theologian and author, David Wells, will be the main speaker at this year’s Founders Conference in Owasso, Oklahoma. The theme is “God’s Truth Abideth Still: Confronting Postmodernism.” Few evangelicals have thought as deeply or written as carefully about postmodernism as Dr. Wells. His most recent book, Above All Earthly…
Amy Green, who writes for the Religious News Service, gets it mostly right in her article on integrity in church membership. It is available online at the Dallas Morning News blog, the Washington Post and EthicsDaily.com. The only complaint I have is the paragraph that states, Ascol, the Southern…
I received a phone call 30 minutes ago that Jerry Falwell has died. Don’t you believe it! He is more alive right now than he has ever been. He left “the land of the dying” and entered the “land of the living.” That is the way that he would…
As promised, I have submitted my resolution on integrity in church membership to the Resolutions Committee for the 2007 Southern Baptist Convention. From what I understand, others may well submit similar resolutions this year. Before sending my resolution in, I consulted with a few respected leaders in the Southern…