My daughter, Rebecca, took this picture one morning last Spring just before she and her sisters left for their college classes. We have some heavy fog during the Spring in Southwest Florida. This shot captures the beauty of that haze that remains just before the fog dissipates under the…
Todd Brady, minister to the university at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, had this to say today in a Baptist Press First Person article entitled, “Vaccinating our indulgences:” Obesity in America is a weighty problem. Approximately 30 percent of children and adolescents (ages 6 to 10) are overweight. Nearly…
One of the joys of raising children is the opportunity to see the world in fresh ways through their eyes. While helping her mom cut roses recently in our back yard, my nine year old daughter, Hannah, discovered this little frog doing his best to hide. This is a…
Just because you have been the President of the SBC doesn’t mean that you always tell the truth. That has been made very evident in the recent SBCLife, the journal of the Southern Baptist Convention. Bobby Welch wrote a letter to Southern Baptists that appears in the current issue…
One of the greatest needs in our day in pastoral ministry is a reclamation of proper views of the relationship between law and gospel. Sadly, many otherwise well-trained men in the minstry have not delved into this subject that, in earlier days, was considered the very marrow of theology….
Plans for the much-discussed debate involving Drs. Ergun Caner, Emir Caner, James White and me have taken many turns over the last few months. I am happy to announce that the debate has been slightly restructured and is now confirmed by all four participants (yes, including me) for October…
For the last couple of years my favorite devotional book has been Morning Thoughts, by Octavius Winslow. Joel Beeke and Reformation Heritage Books reprinted this classic work in 2003. It is also available online. His entries for August 1 and 2 are heartwarming appeals to pray for your pastors….
Paul Dean and Kevin Boling, hosts of the daily talk radio show, Calling for Truth, will interview me today at 1 PM Eastern time on their program. The topic will be working for reformation within the Southern Baptist Convention and beyond. You can listen to it live or find…