Three quotes I appreciate from men I admire.
R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: “I would say for Southern Seminary and for the Southern Baptist Convention, don’t give a dollar that you don’t think is well deployed in ministry. And then hold us all accountable for what we do with those mission dollars.”
Daniel L. Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary: “If in studying what we need to do would involve shutting down Southeastern Seminary and indicating that Danny Akin do something else that would actually …

Throughout the history of mankind and now emerging in the blog world of Baptist historicists, men and women have been about the business of creating a duplicitous sexuality, yet God has never shifted. In other words, God is not deliberately deceptive, pretending to be true in one sense while influenced by another for various reasons. He is faithful and immutable; God is not subject to change, He is invariable. One theologian has said, “To deny the immutability of God is to deny that He is God”. God …

The economy is getting credit for everything these days … everything bad, that is.  This past month we saw yet another discouraging event for which our current economy received copious credit.  The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions trailed significantly behind its goal for 2008, and significantly behind the previous year’s totals.  Investments over the past year have failed to yield profits because of a plummeting stock market. (That cannot be denied, as all of us with retirement accounts can testify.)  To top it all off, Cooperative Program giving …

It is human nature to choose sides. All of us do it all of the time. We choose: between good guys and bad guys; between those with white hats and those with black hats; between red-blooded Americans and everybody else; between Republicans and Democrats; between the Moral Majority and the Immoral Minority; between Baptists and those of other denominations; between Conservatives and Liberals; or—if you please—between Fundamentalists and Moderates; between Calvinists and Arminians; between Continuationists and Cessationists; between BI folks, GCR folks, and Institutional Traditionalists…
Or, as Dr. Seuss might say, …

Dave stepped out from among the crowd with a certain purpose in his step and he made his way to the shoreline.  Without hesitating he continued forward stepping into the chilly water, his gaze fixed intently on the man already standing about twenty feet in front of him out in the water.
What a difference a year makes!  A little more than twelve months previous, a devastating tornado swept through Windsor damaging more than six hundred homes and businesses.  Dave lived in one of those homes along with his wife and …

(I am on a mission trip in Montana, but I got some time to read several blogs about the SBC.  I thought it might be good to give you a little lite reading from my essay archives.  I am too exhausted from working manual labor to think or write.  I went into the ministry to avoid real work!  I hope you enjoy this.  Its all meant in good fun.  I will be traveling all day Friday and will not be able to respond to comments, if there are any.)
All week …

This post is by Alan Cross, and a republication of his thoughts published earlier today on his blog.  We will be re-posting (with his permission, of course) some of his impressions ov the SBC annual meeting over the next couple of days.
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I am kind of in shock regarding what I am seeing at the SBC (in a good way). It is clear that there is new leadership emerging within the SBC. A friend of mine emailed me last night asking me if he thought that these new leaders would end …

In case you’ve missed it, a large number of folks are using twitter to share thoughts on the convention. You can see a live feed of these here: