Bart Barber is a fellow pastor in Farmersville, Texas and will be familiar to many readers of this blog. His family family and the Scroggs family have been brought together through a very difficult providence. Pray for him and for both families.

Logos for Mac. Read Driscoll’s take: http://theresurgence.com/logos_bible_software_for_mac

Here is a report of the Florida Convention that includes the Executive Committee’s report that John Sullivan found “no voice to split CP funds in a 50/50 distribution” from his “listening sessions” with 43 of the state’s 49 associations. I don’t recall such a session being announced in our…

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Malcolm: Here is what you wrote: “Indeed, one admitted that after discovering his church’sconfession was ‘less than Calvinist,’ he decided to use that standard for churchmembership, but dusted off a different standard, the Second London Confession, for thechurch’s leadership.”

The $319.8 million budget approved by trustees marks a $15 million increase over 2008 expenditures, $10 million of which will be used to offset the rising cost of support for missionaries already on the field. On Tuesday evening, trustees appointed 105 new missionaries at Houston’s First Baptist Church, bringing…

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Andrew Lindsey is liveblogging the John 3:16 conference this week. You can read his summaries of the messages and comments on Tim Challies’ blog.

Bill Feltner, of Pilgrim Radio

I recall reading somewhere in one of the Puritans that the temptations that that a minister faces when engaging in controversy are greater than those he faces from “wine and women.” Controversy is dangerous for Christians because the cause engaged too easily becomes a justification for sins committed in…

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