Please Pray - California Wildfire
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Current Events, Prayer | 4 Comments »I would appreciate the prayers of all of our readers. I just got off the phone with my daughter, Laura Beth, who is serving this summer with the Sierra Butte Baptist Association in Northern California. She just snapped this picture ...
You Make the Call! - Episode 2
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Baptism, Church Membership, Current Events, Ecclesiology, International Mission Board, Missions, SBC Issues | 21 Comments »You make the call ... on baptism. A young soldier, who hails from a Southern Baptist heritage and family (but has not, previously, made a faith decision of his own) makes a decision to follow Christ and is saved while deployed ...
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 ...
Is the Sky Blue … or Is It Falling?
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Church Membership, Current Events, Discipleship, Evangelism, Guest Authors, Missional, SBC Issues, SBC News | 16 Comments »Our guest writer today is Keith Price. Keith was born and raised on a small farm in southeastern, Michigan. He graduated from an all-boys Catholic high school in 1980 and received a B.S. in Engineering from Michigan State in ...
Economic Stimulus Payment & Christ
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Current Events, Roger Ferrell, Uncategorized | No Comments »From the Pen of John Piper ... For a moment, forget the political puzzle of getting money back when the country is nine trillion dollars in debt. The more immediate question is: How will you make much of Christ with your ...
Should Men (of God) Be “Enshrined?”
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Current Events, Geoff Baggett, SBC News | 9 Comments »Baptist Press is reporting that the Convention of Southern Baptist Evangelists will honor its first group of inductees of the COSBE Hall of Faith -– recognizing vocational evangelists who have dedicated years of service to the task of soul-winning. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Which Candidate Would You Let Speak In Your Church?
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Church, Current Events, Cyle Clayton | 11 Comments »W.W.J.D. is not new enough to be hot and not old enough to be retro. So, instead of asking who Jesus would vote for, I'll ask who you think the apostles would have endorsed? Who would have been invited to ...
Sexual Sin and the Ministry
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Current Events, Guest Authors, Pastoral Issues, SBC Issues, SBC News | 28 Comments »Today's guest author is Wesley Handy. Wes is happily married to his wife of over five years, Zhanara (‘zh’ pronounced like the ‘s’ in measure). They have two children, Odelia and Isaiah, and are expecting their third this Spring. Currently. ...
