I believe there are several important issues that we will face next month at the Annual Meeting.

What do you consider to be the biggest?

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18 May by Dave Miller

A KINGDOM VIEW OF RACE AND MARRIAGE By Wm. Dwight McKissic, Sr.

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A KINGDOM VIEW OF RACE AND MARRIAGE What Mitt Romney and President Obama Believe Matthew 19:4, Acts 17:26a By Wm. Dwight McKissic, Sr. A Message to be delivered at the Cornerstone Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas, May 20, 2012 “And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at [...]

18 May by Dave Miller

NAMB trustees adopt church planting network guidelines (by William Thornton)

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The SBC Plodder cuts through the chatter and gets to the heart of things! Our North American Mission Board has endured considerable criticism for supporting church plants that also have a relationship with some church planting network. We are regularly treated to considerable, breathless, blogging acrimony alleging all manner of things about NAMB and other [...]

18 May by Brandon Smith

The Gospel According to The Avengers

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Here is the cast: Nick Fury is Jesus – The consummate leader, always leading with perfect intentions and precise calculations. Captain America is Christians – The one with upright character and unmatched integrity. (Let’s pretend that Christians exemplify this regularly.) Hammer of Thor is Scripture – An other-worldly power, unstoppable when in the right hands. [...]

17 May by Dave Miller

“One Woman Man” – Examining Bart Barber’s Univira Concept

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Bart Barber has advanced an interpretation of the biblical qualification for becoming an elder or a deacon in the church, based on the ancient concept of the univira, that a man must be “the husband of one wife” or more literally, a “one-woman man.”  According to Bart, this is not a uniquely  Barberian concept, but was [...]

17 May by Andrew Wencl

A Calvinist Anthem

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Though it’s quieted down a lot regarding Lifeway’s The Gospel Project, I thought I’d stoke the fires again. All the concerns about how some subtle Calvinistic influence will confuse church members and cause frustration and discord in otherwise non-Calvinist Baptist churches because of this material are a little melodramatic. After all, I’m quite confident that [...]

17 May by Jared Moore

Pitfalls in Redemptive-Historical Preaching and Suggested Remedies

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What is the message of the Bible? As you answer this question, here are some pitfalls to avoid and remedy so that you may preach the full counsel of God.

16 May by Mike Bergman

A Plea for Sanity…and Unity

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At another blog there is a post up about a church that is hurting.  And let me preface everything else to come by saying: a hurting church anywhere is a cause for all of us to weep.  This church is in pain because of the specter of disunity and division.  We should take the words [...]

16 May by Dave Miller

Pray for Kaitlyn Stetzer!

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Ed Stetzer’s 7-year-old daughter is hospitalized with  serious but as yet unidentified illness.  Please pray for her and for the Stetzer family. Ed is updating his site, so you can go there for the latest information.

16 May by Dave Miller

A Great Help for Bloggers, from Martin Luther

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I saw a link to this today and thought that it was an amazing asset for bloggers. It is a listing of graphic insults from Martin Luther’s writings.  I do not know who compiled this list, but this is a great boon for us. Instead of making up our own insults, we can just generate [...]

16 May by Mike Leake

Proverbs for Christian Blogging: Am I Sowing Discord?

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A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. There are six things that the LORD hates, [...]

15 May by Dave Miller

Divorce, Remarriage and Ministry: What is a “Husband of One Wife?”

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“I want to stick to the biblical standard.  I don’t think we should compromise the Bible to let divorced men serve as deacons.” I was having a discussion with my deacons a few years ago.  Our church has had an unwritten rule for a long time that divorced men were ineligible to serve as deacons [...]

15 May by Rick Patrick

Oh The Humanity!

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An unborn child is considered a human being for White House security purposes but a mere product of conception for abortion purposes. Would it be too much to ask for a little consistency here?  http://bit.ly/JtjCYf