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…
Five cases of books moved to tables in my study to protect them from waterPhoto by Rebecca AscolDamage done to our facilities the last two years during hurricane season has left us in a long, ongoing effort to have repairs completed. The roof above my study was damaged and…
As the previous two posts have shown, those who drafted the Abstract of Principles as well as those responsible for setting the course of theological education in the Southern Baptist Convention clearly intended that the professors in our institutions be held to a strict doctrinal accountability. In his “Three…
When Al Mohler was elected President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1993, he began working on the recovery and restatement of Boyce’s vision of theological education for Southern Baptists. He reasserted the importance of the Abstract of Principles as the doctrinal covenant between the school and the…
A crisis in Baptist doctrine is evidently approaching, and those of us who still cling to the doctrines which formerly distinguished us have the important duty to perform of earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the saints. Gentlemen, God will call us to judgment if we neglect…
One of the great results of the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention the last three decades has been the impact made on our theological seminaries. Whatever doubts there may have been about the confessional integrity of those institutions has been, for the most part, removed. Now there…
Last year 0n July 19 I wrote about a new reality show that was in development. Given the working title, “Pulpit Masters,” it was being produced by Original Productions, the same folks who have given us “Monster Garage,” “Monster House” and “Plastic Surgery Before and After.” Now, 900 auditions…