Success As Measured by the New Testament
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Culture, Les Puryear, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »I've been reading a wonderful little book entitled, Small Churches Are Beautiful. It somewhat dated as it was published in 1977, however, many of the principles cited are still valid. One point the author makes is we must measure success ...
Patriotism & Worship
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Church, Culture, Roger Ferrell, Worship | 66 Comments »Last month, police in DeLand, Fla., began a criminal investigation after a Baptist minister who removed the American flag from his sanctuary was harassed. The Rev. Sean Oliver Allen took a month's leave after getting anonymous notes at his home ...
You Make the Call! - Episode 1
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Culture, Current Events, Missions, Pastoral Issues, SBC Issues, Theology | 24 Comments »A Brief Word of Explanation ... I'm going to experiment with a new form of post today. Viewers of 1980's-era Monday Night Football or This Week In Baseball might remember a segment called “You Make the Call”, sponsored for quite some ...
On Funerals
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Bowden McElroy, Church Life, Culture, Ministry, Pastoral Issues | 8 Comments »I went to a funeral yesterday; I'll be attending another one tomorrow. Tomorrow's funeral is for a family member: my wife's uncle. Since tomorrow is the last day of school, my wife – a teacher – will be unable to ...
An Old Religion Revisited: A Response to Eckhart Tolle
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Book Review, Culture, Current Events, Evangelism, Rob Ayers | 9 Comments »I purchased recently a copy of the New York Times best seller A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (New York: Penguin Group, 2006) by the self-described “contemporary spiritual teacher” Eckhart Tolle. Tolle was plucked out the realm of ...
Grace vs Commitment?
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Bowden McElroy, Culture | 5 Comments »The other day I wrote about the power of – and need for – commitment in marriage when Kevin left this comment: How do you balance the message of Grace and commitment to marriage? I had someone try to tell me ...
The Memphis Manatee - A Metaphor of Our Churches?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Culture, Geoff Baggett, Missional, SBC Issues | 23 Comments »A couple of years ago I received the weekly newsletter from Cordova Baptist Church in Memphis (I once served as Youth Pastor there), and was shocked to learn that a manatee had been spotted in the Mississippi River. It was ...
Reaching postmoderns with the gospel
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Church, Culture, Evangelism, Roger Ferrell | 12 Comments »I'm not sure why, but my state convention asked me a few months ago to teach a breakout session at their upcoming School of Evangelism later this month. The title (theirs) is Sharing Jesus in my World (Personal Evangelism in ...
American Culture & Church Marketing
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Church, Culture, David Rogers, Ecclesiology, Unity | 14 Comments »As I have mentioned here at sbc IMPACT! on other occasions, I believe that living for awhile outside of our own cultural context can help us at times to see certain things a little more clearly than if we had never had ...
Bible Interpretation - 1 Corinthians 6:1-7
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Bible, Culture, Current Events, Geoff Baggett | 20 Comments »Should Christians sue other believers? This is a timely topic in Southern Baptist life, in light of the recent high-profile lawsuit brought by Dr. Sheri Klouda against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and seminary president, Dr. Paige Patterson. Dr. Klouda ...
