“God’s Truth Abideth Still: Confronting Postmodernism,” is the theme of this year’s Founders Conference meeting at Bethel Baptist Church in Owasso, Oklahoma. We have heard some wonderful preaching as well as two excellent presentations on the theme by David Wells. Tonight he spoke on “Preaching the Cross in the…
A new blog has been set up to track the Florida Baptist Truth Project (“Amazing Grace over Florida”) for the next several weeks. It launches today with a call for prayer and fasting. Read more about it and join the conversation here. Updates will be given there periodically on…
As I reported last week, Dr. John Sullivan, Executive Director of the Florida Baptist Convention, recently mailed out Dr. Jerry Vines’ sermons entitled, “Baptist Battles,” to every Southern Baptist pastor in Florida. Included in that series is an error-filled message entitled, “A Baptist and His Election: Calvinism.” Many pastors…
The Southern Baptist Convention has much within it to commend, much to lament and somethings that are just plain confusing. The recent meeting in San Antonio confirmed this assessment in various ways. The GoodThe spirit at the convention was less rancorous than some expected and was helpfully free from…
Tomorrow, Thursday, June 14, I am scheduled to be on Mike Corley’s radio show for an interview about the failure of my resolution to make it to the floor of the convention and the upcoming conference on Southern Baptists and Calvinism. Mike is a great host and it should…
Every number has a story. That has been a recurring theme of the Southern Baptist Convention this year in San Antonio. We have heard speaker after speaker as well as numerous video presentations make this point. Some of them have been very moving stories of individuals and people groups…
Yesterday I was interviewed by Kevin Boling and Paul Dean on their radio program, Calling for Truth. We discussed the SBC meeting, my resolution on integrity in church membership, and the announcement of the conference on Southern Baptists and Calvinism. You can listen to the broadcast here.
The Founders Breakfast was wonderful this morning. Voddie Baucham did a great job preaching from Revelation 3 on “Southern Baptists at Sardis.” EDIT: Andrew Lindsey (not Nathan White, as I originally and erroneously indicated) has written a good report on the message. We will the audio file available as…
Today at the Founders Breakfast in San Antonio, I announced an upcoming conference on “Building Bridges: Southern Baptists and Calvinism.” The conference is being jointly sponsored by Founders Minstries and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It is scheduled for November 26-28 at Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina. Details will…
Today, Dr. Jerry Johnson, President of Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, hosted Drs. Danny Akin and Mark Coppenger in what was billed as a “Debate on Calvinism.” It was tape for Dr. Johnson’s radio program and broadcast from the Criswell booth in the exhibit area. About 100 people stood…