On December 21, 2007 Ergun Caner sent me an announcement about the name change of Liberty Theological Seminary to Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. I gave it only passing notice. From all that I know, Liberty may be the finest Fundamentalist seminary around and I don’t care how many times…
Tornado strikes Union UniversityBy Staff JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)–Union University in Jackson, Tenn., sustained heavy tornado damage Tuesday evening at approximately 7 pm when a line of heavy thunderstorms rushed through the area. At 8:15 central, news and information director, Tim Ellsworth, reported that students were still trapped by debris…
I am looking forward to getting on an airplane in a few hours with my son, Joel, for a trip to Minneapolis for Desiring God’s annual Pastors Conference. This year the theme is “The Pastor as Father and Son.” Sons of pastors are encouraged to join their dads for…
Kairos Journal reports on a “New Sexual Revolution at Princeton,” being spearheaded by the Anscombe Society. This student-led movement takes its name from G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret) Anscombe, at twentieth century Christian philosophe at Cambridge “who argued on philosophical grounds that ‘there just is no such thing…
It seems that 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia will also be holding special services this Sunday. Formerly known as Crossroads Community, the church will have its “grand opening” of their “worship experience center” in two days. According to a recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a high-tech, 2500-seat room…
I never candidated for the office of pastor. After filling the pulpit one Sunday when I was out here working on Founders Ministries things with Ernie Reisinger (who had recently retired to this area), the deacons aske me to consider becoming their pastor. I read their constitution and by-laws…
This Sunday Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida will celebrate its 25th anniversary. We will rejoice over a quarter-century of grace and faithfulness–God’s, not ours. Every church that lasts is a story of God’s grace. Often I marvel that the kingdom of God makes any advance in the…
Alexandra Alter wrote an article on church discipline that was published in the January 18, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal. It is ominously entitled, “Banned From Church.” While I applaud the WSJ’s effort to examine the “growing movement among some conservative Protestant pastors to bring back church…
In a rather poor article in Christianity Today Ken Walker takes note of the resurgence of Calvinism in the SBC. Ten years ago, that might have been news. Today it is, at best, old news. There are some good quotes by Al Mohler and Timothy George and a not-so-good-one…
I would not have believed it had I not seen ample evidence to convince me that this report is true. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary celebrated its centenniel convocation yesterday with the faculty wearing black felt cowboy hats instead of the more traditional toppers usually associated with such occasions. My…