From the monthly archives:
This is part of a post by J.D. Greear. The entire post can be found here. I want to address those of you who, like me, have a Baptist past but have often found yourself wondering, regarding the Southern Baptist Convention, “What is the point? Aren’t denominations a thing of the past?” I want to try [...]
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I find so much of what Solomon says in Ecclesiastes as utterly profound. His writings do not seem sad to me like I’ve heard others say they are to them. It’s brilliant. The wisest man in Old Testament history comes to the conclusion that life is futile; “all is vain”. Life is a continual repetition of things. Indeed, [...]
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I don’t know about you, but when I woke up this morning I thought, “Man, I sure would love to see Bart Barber’s smiling face this morning.” To my utter surprise he posted this video! I just knew I wasn’t the only one that wanted to see Bart this morning so I thought I would [...]
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Here is a great quote by J.C. Ryle that I found at Kevin DeYoung’s blog: J.C. Ryle: Mark what I say. If you want to do good in these times, you must throw aside indecision, and take up a distinct, sharply-cut, doctrinal religion. If you believe little, those to who you try to do good will believe [...]
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“Jumping the shark” is a phrased often used in the television industry to refer to the moment it’s realized that a once-good program has begun a downward descent into mediocrity and eventually obscurity. It refers to a classic set of episodes from the program “Happy Days” where the character Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli (you may know [...]
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I posted this by Ronnie Floyd because it is a very meaningful, helpful post: In Component #3 of our GCR report, Penetrating the Lostness, we have introduced a term called Great Commission Giving. The term is engaging and does represent the heart of all we do to support the work of the Great Commission through [...]
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Why does the President of the West Virginia Baptist Convention support the GCR? 1) The GCR says out loud, what I have been thinking for a long time. The Southern Baptist Convention is losing ground in an increasingly lost culture. In the United States, we baptized 33,000 fewer people in 2008 than in 1950, and [...]
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In Between The Times most recent post they argue for why the GCRTF Report is good for the future of the SBC. Below they address 6 different things that they hope to accomplish with NAMB through the report. Here are some of the main features of the recommendation: It “frees” NAMB to direct a church [...]
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