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…
On Thursday, May 29, I received a phone call from Ryan Helms, pastor of New Zion Baptist Church near Bonifay, Florida. Ryan is a faithful bi-vocational pastor who has labored for 6 years shepherding this rural congregation with expositional preaching and loving pastoral care. As one of the church’s…
Just before leaving the state of Florida on my way to Texas for the Southern Baptist Convention next week, our family stopped to visit dear friends who live in the panhandle. As we shared dinner in their home with another pastor and his family, I was informed of a…
Relevant Revolution has set up a website full of “sermon jams“–audio sermons that have sound tracks laid down with them to provide easier access to a younger generation. The purpose statement of Relevant Revolution says: This ministry is designed to provide a medium which tactfully delivers biblical sermons that…