I have a friend and student named Brittany who recently ran a marathon. More recently, her dad ran a half marathon, and she ran it with him. That, my friends, is a lot of running. We get the term marathon from the Battle of Marathon.  In about 490 BC, a man named Phidippides carried a vital message about this battle to Athens. As the story goes, he ran 26 miles in a remarkably short period of time after a battle. … →

1985. Dallas, Texas. 45,000 Messengers. Focus: A resurgence of conviction regarding the Word of God. I picked an interesting year to attend my first SBC annual meeting. I was a 26-year-old pastor with little practical knowledge of the inner workings of the convention. As a student in seminary at the time I loved class, but I had a disdain for meetings. It took a lot to get me there. “Just let me be and let me lead a church” was … →

SEBTS will wreck your life: George Robinson and Alvin Reid George Robinson and I made a video about SEBTS while videotaping for www.viewthestory.com. See why coming here could wreck your life. David Platt would be proud.

As this week is national teacher appreciation week (hint hint, students!) I am hosting a guest blog by my colleague Steven A. McKinion, who blogs at www.stevemckinion.com. Dr. McKinion is both a great teacher and thinker, and a friend who knows well our convention and theology. I love the insights he shares in the article that follows: As an observer of the discussions related to the SBC Great Commission Resurgence Task Force (GCRTF), I hear regularly that the problem among … →

We Americans pride ourselves in being busy. Sometimes in the church we have equated activity with godliness, resulting in full calendars and too often, empty souls. I have been far too guilty at times in my own life of this. Now the opposite is not a good alternative; plenty of people in our land, and that includes believers, are stinking lazy, unmotivated, and unproductive. But there must be a place in between. I am in the process of slowing down … →