Paul Dean and Kevin Boling, hosts of the daily talk radio show, Calling for Truth, have asked me to join them Monday, May 19, 2008 1 PM Eastern time for their program. We are scheduled to talk about the resolution on integrity in church membership that I have submitted…
UPDATE: It has been confirmed that Pastor Pollock and his 13 year old son died when his plane went down in western North Carolina. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Pastor Forrest Pollock of Bell Shoals Baptist Church has been missing since leaving Brandon, Florida Sunday afternoon in his private plane for…
Early registration ends soon for the 2008 Founders Conference scheduled for June 24-27 in Oklahoma. Speakers include Ed Stetzer, Voddie Baucham, Tom Nettles, Don Whitney, Andy Davis, Ted Christman and Phil Newton. These men will address issues related to church reformation and church planting. I cannot think of a…
Thom Rainer is the CEO of LifeWay. This article addresses an important issue–the most important issue–facing churches and pastors today, namely, the futility and eternal damage that accompanies the neglect of the Gospel. Wise and good words that are badly needed in our day. The Gospel remedies pastoral malpracticeBy…
Well, it’s that time of year again…the flowers are blooming, school is ending and I am submitting my annual resolution on church membership to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolutions Committee. The first year I submitted it (2006), the Committee refused to bring it before the Convention in Greensboro because,…
The Baptist Standard has published a package of articles on the resurgence of Calvinism. Ken Camp, the managing editor of the Standard, has done a very credible job on the stories. One of them highlights a talk by Leo Garrett on “Baby Boomer Baptist Theologians” in which he contends…
The Southern Baptist blogosphere is buzzing with comments on the ACP report that was released yesterday. Chris Elrod has a 30 minute video conversation with Ed Stetzer about it. Timmy Brister has weighed in with his typically insightful analysis. The best comments that I have read come from Nathan…
Chris Turner, Media Relations Manager for LifeWay, has issued a report on the 2007 Annual Church Profile report for the Southern Baptist Convention. Some of the numbers are alarming enough to cause Ed Stetzer to say that “For now, Southern Baptists are a denomination in decline.” Stetzer has some…
I hope I live long enough to see the day when the common caricatures of the doctrines of sovereign grace have been so widely exposed that any self-respecting preacher will be ashamed to keep serving them up as if they were irrefutable critiques of what John Broadus called “that…
I have spent the last couple of days with 5000 friends at the Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville. OK, I’m stretching the truth a bit. It hasn’t really been two full days. But there are 5000 people here. The preaching has been good and the conversations between…