What a difference four months makes. At the June Southern Baptist Convention, Condoleezza Rice was the Belle of the Ball as she received rousing ovations before, during and after her speech. Now, as Baptist Press reports, she is receiving stinging criticism from her former fans over her comments at…
Paul Dean and Kevin Boling, hosts of the daily talk radio show, Calling for Truth, have asked me to join them again today (Wednesday, October 25, 2006) at 1 PM Eastern time for their program. We are to discuss events of the last few weeks as well as broader…
I am scheduled to speak at the Alpha and Omega Pulpit Crimes conference in Orlando on November 2-3 along with Burk Parsons, David King, Don Kistler, Steve Camp and, of course, James White. The conference will culiminate in a formal debate between James and John Shelby Spong on homosexuality…
Our town was shocked again two weeks ago when the charred bodies of two young men were discovered in a smoldering late model vehicle near an industrial park not too far from my home. Police investigations have recently uncovered some of the gruesome facts about the crime. The two…
Tammi Ledbetter has another article published by Baptist Press today. As with the previous one, I find it to be balanced and fair. There is still no mention of the exact reason that the debate was cancelled–sabotaged is a better word. I have tried to explain to people that…
Tammi Ledbetter has written a very balanced article for Baptist Press (10/17/06) on the cancellation of the Baptists and Calvinism debate. As I read it, I was impressed with how difficult it must have been to sort through the thousands of words that have been written on this whole…
Dr. Jerry Vines, former pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, preached last Sunday night in First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia on “Calvinism: A Baptist and His Election.” This is the second in a series of messages his is preaching there on Baptist Battles. Keep your eye…
Marty Duren, over at SBC Outpost, has written about a proposal before the trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary regarding the transfer of 90 million dollars in endowment funds from the Baptist Foundation in Texas to the Southwestern Seminary Foundation, to be managed by an organization that invests in,…
For twenty years our church has had a Reformation Celebration around October 31. Early in this practice, I was adamantly opposed to any kind of “Harvest Festival” or participation in Halloween. While we still do not allow our children to go out “trick-or-treating,” I have come to see the…
One of the most noble characters in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is that great defender of the faith, Valiant-for-truth. We don’t meet him until the second part of the story, but the lessons that he teaches every Christian who is serious about God’s Word and the recovery of biblical…