As I have mentioned previously, for more than 30 years of pastoral ministry I have operated on the basis that maintaining confidentiality is important but not ultimate. Particularly in counseling situations it is important that the person with whom I am speaking has confidence that what is said will…
SBC President, Frank Page, wrote an article for Baptist Press yesterday entitled, “Calvinism and Southern Baptists.” He cites the recent Building Bridges conference and the research on the growth of Reformed theology within the SBC that LifeWay released in conjunction with that coference. Of the former he says, Though…
I posted the following comment on SBC Outpost in response to an anonymous letter posted there, purportedly by a professor at one of our 6 SBC seminaries. The author accuses Drs. Al Mohler and Paige Patterson of actions that he believes have dispirited faculty and administrators at Southern and…
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…