A new blog has been set up to track the Florida Baptist Truth Project (“Amazing Grace over Florida”) for the next several weeks. It launches today with a call for prayer and fasting. Read more about it and join the conversation here. Updates will be given there periodically on…
As I reported last week, Dr. John Sullivan, Executive Director of the Florida Baptist Convention, recently mailed out Dr. Jerry Vines’ sermons entitled, “Baptist Battles,” to every Southern Baptist pastor in Florida. Included in that series is an error-filled message entitled, “A Baptist and His Election: Calvinism.” Many pastors…
The Southern Baptist Convention has much within it to commend, much to lament and somethings that are just plain confusing. The recent meeting in San Antonio confirmed this assessment in various ways. The GoodThe spirit at the convention was less rancorous than some expected and was helpfully free from…
Tomorrow, Thursday, June 14, I am scheduled to be on Mike Corley’s radio show for an interview about the failure of my resolution to make it to the floor of the convention and the upcoming conference on Southern Baptists and Calvinism. Mike is a great host and it should…
Every number has a story. That has been a recurring theme of the Southern Baptist Convention this year in San Antonio. We have heard speaker after speaker as well as numerous video presentations make this point. Some of them have been very moving stories of individuals and people groups…
The Founders Breakfast was wonderful this morning. Voddie Baucham did a great job preaching from Revelation 3 on “Southern Baptists at Sardis.” EDIT: Andrew Lindsey (not Nathan White, as I originally and erroneously indicated) has written a good report on the message. We will the audio file available as…
Today at the Founders Breakfast in San Antonio, I announced an upcoming conference on “Building Bridges: Southern Baptists and Calvinism.” The conference is being jointly sponsored by Founders Minstries and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It is scheduled for November 26-28 at Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina. Details will…
Today, Dr. Jerry Johnson, President of Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, hosted Drs. Danny Akin and Mark Coppenger in what was billed as a “Debate on Calvinism.” It was tape for Dr. Johnson’s radio program and broadcast from the Criswell booth in the exhibit area. About 100 people stood…
We arrived in San Antonio this evening after a wonderful time of worship and fellowship with Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas. Voddie Baucham, one of their elders and the speaker for the Founders Fellowship Breakfast on Tuesday morning, preached from Mark 9 in the time of worship…