Bill Curtis is pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Florence, SC and serves as chairman of the trustees for the North American Mission Board. The current Baptist Courier has “An open letter to Southern Baptists” from Curtis, reacting to the article that appeared recently in the Georgia Baptist Christian…
I am spending a couple of days in Miami with my son, Joel, at the 2nd Annual Miami Pastors’ Conference. The conference is hosted by Pastor Rickey Armstrong and the Glendale Baptist Church. Its genesis goes back to 2001 when a few pastors met in Atlanta to discuss the…
The Boyce is back in town. James P. Boyce, that is, the principal founder of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and for 8 years, President of the Southern Baptist Convention. A new edition of his Abstract of Systematic Theology will is being released this month. This book, along with…
Last Sunday witnessed my 73rd and final sermon on Jeremiah. As the series began coming to a close the last few weeks, I experienced that familiar “preacher’s sorrow” of saying goodbye to a close companion. Jeremiah has never been far from my heart and mind the last two years….
Today I received an email from a pastor asking for my thoughts on why the ongoing debate over Calvinism and Arminianism is practically important. Is it “much ado about nothing,” that will inevitably lead to a split among Baptists the way that it split the General and Particular Baptists…
Watching the debate last week between James White and John Shelby Spong left me with several impressions. God built James White to debate. He is obviously gifted in his ability both to prepare and to present the fruit of those preparations in a formal format that allows for the…
I have been the fortunate recipient of several emails from brothers who are concerned about the subject of my last blog article. It is obvious from the public comments and most of those emails that many are upset about the comments that are attributed to Brother Bill Harrell in…
Bill Harrell is pastor of Abilene Baptist Church in Martinez, Georgia. He is also the new chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee. This is Harrell’s second tour of duty on the Exec Com, having been one of the first “movement conservatives” appointed to that powerful body in…
Our Reformation Celebration was a great success. Several young adults and older youth put on a Reformation Fair for our children, providing lots of fun and some significant teaching about Zwingli and the reformation in Zurich. Many of the children dressed up like characters from the 16th century. I…