I am delighted to announce the upcoming Founders Breakfast at the Southern Baptist Convention in San Antonio, June 12, 2007, in the Alamo Ballroom A/B/C/D on Level 2 in the Marriot Riverwalk. Dr. Voddie Baucham will be our speaker and will address the incredibly timely theme of “Southern Baptists…
If a collective vision can be constructed from the messages at the Baptist Identity Conference, it would include the following ingredients. 1. Being Baptist is much broader than being Southern Baptist2. Being Baptist is secondary to being Christian3. Being Baptist means taking church life seriously–inlcuding discipline and a regenerate…
I have been exposed for the amateur blogger that I am by sitting next to Timmy Brister, Steve McKoy, Joe Thorn, Tim Ellsworth, Art Rogers and Steve Weaver the last two days. In the time that it takes me to figure out how to get blogger to load properly…
Already the trip to Jackson, TN and Union University has been worth the expense, time and effort because of renewed fellowship with old friends and the opportunity to make new friends. I finally met Timmy Brister in person, and was allowed to share a table with him, Steve McCoy…
In honor of the Baptist Identity Conference starting on Thursday at Union University, try to name the dead guys at the top of my blog. Start with the top row and go from right to left. No history professors allowed. 🙂 I plan to leave in a few hours…
David Van Biema interviewed Al Mohler for Time magazine regarding Dr. Mohler’s recent hospitalization and near death. Dr. Mohler’s words are a fine example of the practicality of serious theology. Those who dismiss the importance of doctrine in Christian discipleship should read this interview very carefully and be challenged…
For the last several years I have been expressing my growing concern that, in many ways and in many places, evangelicals in general and Southern Baptists in particular have lost the Gospel. One of the first blog articles that I ever posted addressed this concern and I have repeatedly…