Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and 9 Marks Ministry are teaming up the Fall to offer the 1st of 9 conferences over the next 9 years. Scheduled for September 25-26, 2009, “God Exposed” is the theme of this year’s conference will call pastors and church leader to embrace and defend…
This is the first of a series of “bloggersations” that I hope to publish here over the next several months. One of the vitally important dimensions to the resurgence of gospel unity that is developing within and beyond the SBC is the establishment of friendships. Too often, brothers who…
July 10 marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. His impact on western civilization is hard to measure. Recently I was asked to provide 3 reasons that Calvin is important today. Here is what I wrote: 1. Western civilization owes an incalculable debt to John Calvin because his…
This is the third and final installment of the story of God’s grace of restoration through church discipline at Grace Baptist Church. The other parts can be found here (#1) and here (#2). When I came to serve Grace Baptist Church 23 years ago it was like many contemporary…
When I received Steve’s email I was overwhelmed with a sense of God’s power and grace which certainly appeared to be working to rescue a man who had been living in the far country for over a decade. I wish I could say that I had lived in expectation…
On June 1 I began my 24th year of serving as pastor of Grace Baptist Church. While there are challenges that go with a long pastoral tenure blessings that attend it far surpass them–things like baptizing and marrying the children of people you baptized and married 20 years ago….
It was a great privilege to have Dr. Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, speak at our Founders Breakfast last week in Louisville. God has raised up Dr. Akin to give strategic and principled leadership to Southern Baptists at this crucial juncture of our history. Pray for…
The 2009 Southern Baptist Convention may well go down as the one that has left me the most hopeful…ever. My first convention was 1979 when Adrian Rogers was first elected President and the “Conservative Resurgence” (CR) officially began. I am grateful for that movement because it inhibited the slide…
Dr. Al Mohler’s motion to commission a task force passed tonight at the Southern Baptist Convention. Specifically, the motion requests that the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting June 23-24, 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky, authorize the President of the Southern Baptist Convention to appoint a Great Commission Task Force charged to…