Tammi Ledbetter has written a very balanced article for Baptist Press (10/17/06) on the cancellation of the Baptists and Calvinism debate. As I read it, I was impressed with how difficult it must have been to sort through the thousands of words that have been written on this whole…
Dr. Jerry Vines, former pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, preached last Sunday night in First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia on “Calvinism: A Baptist and His Election.” This is the second in a series of messages his is preaching there on Baptist Battles. Keep your eye…
Marty Duren, over at SBC Outpost, has written about a proposal before the trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary regarding the transfer of 90 million dollars in endowment funds from the Baptist Foundation in Texas to the Southwestern Seminary Foundation, to be managed by an organization that invests in,…
For twenty years our church has had a Reformation Celebration around October 31. Early in this practice, I was adamantly opposed to any kind of “Harvest Festival” or participation in Halloween. While we still do not allow our children to go out “trick-or-treating,” I have come to see the…
One of the most noble characters in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is that great defender of the faith, Valiant-for-truth. We don’t meet him until the second part of the story, but the lessons that he teaches every Christian who is serious about God’s Word and the recovery of biblical…
In this Associated Baptist Press article, Beth Newman, Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, VA advocates the use of confetti-spewing firetruck baptistries for children. Curiouser and curiouser…. HT: Bill Ascol
The Dividing Line with Dr. James White The Michael Corley show on WQBC in Vicksburg, Mississippi. http://www.wqbc.net/mcprogram/mc101106.mp3
HT for the cartoon: James White and AngelzErgun Caner has written that the debate was cancelled because, “They quit.” As I have tried to show in the previous blog entries, it’s not quite that simple. We refused to allow the moderator, with the approval of Drs. Caner, to completely…
My September 13th email took the original format suggested by Ergun Caner in his May 11th email in which he first introduced the Parliamentary format and set out the actual speaking schedule for what was then a proposed 2 hour debate (it was later agreed to extend it to…
This is a post I had hoped never to have to write. Instead of looking up dates and rereading emails and phone logs, I had hoped to be spending this week finishing up preparation for the debate in which Emir Caner, Ergun Caner, James White and I had months…