Now that I have had a day to recover from my SBC travels I offer a little more detailed set of thoughts on this year’s SBC and its significance:
1. I believe history will show this to be a significant turning point in our convention. This reminded me a lot of my first annual SBC, 1985 [...]
We who call ourselves Evangelical Christians owe a great debt to Martin Luther. Luther, a Catholic monk who learned that the just shall live by faith rather than by religious behavior, led a Reformation. His impact demonstrates how movements often happen. Rarely if ever do spiritually renewing movements come from the center of a [...]
The following comes from the writings of Jonathan Edwards on Revival and speaks much to our day as well. You can read more in its context at http://books.google.com/books?id=qbQOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA386&lpg=PA386&dq=jonathan+edwards+zeal+and+resolution&source=bl&ots=5xM2Rjj1sX&sig=G1QEgUwZP5WC4tJVFV4bzR9Q__o&hl=en&ei=GaEvSprmI4PUNJOl6IcK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3.
“Two things that are exceeding needful in ministers, as they would do any great matters, to advance the kingdom of Christ, are zeal and resolution. The influence and [...]
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” Einstein
In the fall of 1969 a young college student at a small private college became
concerned over the spiritual life on her campus. She invited five other students
to join her in what she called the “Grand Experiment.” On the surface
the experiment [...]
Earlier this week I had one of our wonderful students come to see me (I really love these students). During our conversation she shared her plans to go with the IMB as part of our 2 plus 2 program. Then she mentioned hearing about our International Mission Board cutting back on the number of missionaries [...]
Haven’t done this in a long time, so used to Facebook being my picture medium. But for the handful not on fb, enjoy!
Big snake that can kill you who visited my class.
Below: hannah and some of her volleyball teammates. Some of my great students who went with me as I spoke at the WV evangelism [...]
Over the past decade my passion to see people know Christ has pushed me repeatedly to the younger generation. Part of that stems from the simple truth that the overwhelming majority of people who become Christ followers do so under age 20. But it is also because the years I have spent studying, teaching [...]
If you were to begin your own spiritual community, your own religious system, what would you choose as its symbol? How would you spread the word about your new faith via imagery?
After all, all religious traditions and most ideologies have their symbols:
The star of David universally denotes Judaism;
The crescent and star, though predating Mohammed, has [...]
Folks who know me are aware of my love for animals. We have three cats, two dogs, and a snake at my house. I have a boa in my office, and at the moment an 11 foot burmese python. The big boy (he could kill you) belongs to my friend Dan Breeding, who has one [...]
The first annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention I attended was 1985 in Dallas. You know, the one with 45k in attendance, where the bathroom lines had more congestion than Manhattan at rush hour. Like this year, the meeting was near one of our seminaries, this time the one I attended. So, [...]
