Our wedding reception, (with an Aggie groom’s cake!) Today is my 26th wedding anniversary, which is another way of saying that today marks the 26th year of my wife’s incredible patience and longsuffering. Tertullian called marriage the “seminary of the human race” and Luther regarded it as a school…
Dr. Ronnie Floyd has recently posted a statement about his nomination to the SBC presidency. It is worth reading. Everyone who loves the SBC can affirm what he says about the distinction between being nominated and being elected, and between being nominated and “running” for an office. Certainly we…
Several have asked about the existence of a fire engine baptistry that is designed to shoot confetti…
Dr. Johnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia issued a press release yesterday that he will nominate Dr. Ronnie Floyd, pastor of First Baptist Church, Springdale, Arkansas and The Church at Pinnacle Hills, Arkansas to be the president of the Southern Baptist Convention in Greensboro, NC on…
Recently Baptist Press reported the decrease in baptisms in 2005 based on the latest statistics from the Annual Church Profiles that Southern Baptist churches are encouraged to report. The Florida Baptist Witness gave a similar report on churches within our state. Anyone who knows how to read between the…
Reading John Owen at 34,000 feet provokes some interesting thoughts. On my way to Charlotte, NC today I reread Owen’s Mortification of Sin. It is such a helpful, theologically insightful and pastoral book. I was struck by how contemporary Owen sounds. Granted, “contemporary” is not a word that you…
A commenter named David Rich left the following note on my blog today: Tom,Thank you for the information. I am new to the blog thing..but wanted to update the Johnny Hunt for SBC president blog. I am a member at FBCW and at the close of Sunday’s sermon Dr….
For years the anonymous publishers of the website, baptistfire.com have hidden in the shadows and spewed forth venom, lies, distortions and half-truths against people, churches and organizations who do not espouse their particular brand of Fundamentalism. They especially hate historic Southern Baptist theology, or the doctrines of grace. Sadly,…
These are interesting times. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, spoke today a Liberty University’s Convocation. In his speech Yoffie downplayed the significant differences that serious Christians of all stripes–especially those to whom he was speaking–have with his own movement’s views on abortion and legally…
This is the way a local church advertized a special worship service this past weekend. According to a newspaper article, some of the songs that “attendees along to” were “Eight Days a Week,” “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” and “Let it Be.” The pastor is quoted…