September 2010

13 September by Dave Miller

Disturbing Comments by Kevin Ezell

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(NOTE:  Kevin Ezell was elected as President of the North American Mission Board.  The BP article did not tell what the vote count was.  Congratulations Dr. Ezell!) I have not been involved in the debate about whether Kevin Ezell is qualified to be the president of NAMB. From everything I have been told, he is [...]

13 September by Mike Bergman

Biblical Requirements for Pastors: Older, Married, and with a Proven Family?

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I want us to wrestle with an idea/question: when it comes to the biblical requirements for a pastor, should the pastor be an older man who is married and has a family that has proven faithful? Certainly throughout history there have been a plethora of younger men in the pastorate, we have plenty who post [...]

12 September by Tony K

The Future of SBC Voices?

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Just to start this thing out, let me say that I don’t really read this blog. While I am the one who launched it a few years back and worked to get it off the ground, I’ve moved on. It’s just not something I think about more than once a month. The rare exception is [...]

9 September by Dave Miller

A Crucial Theological Issue: Is God He or he?

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At Truman Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I was taught that divine pronouns should always be capitalized. That was at a public school. Now today, even modern Bible translations do not capitalize the divine pronouns. Am I just a relic of the ancient past because I feel like God’s name should be honored, even [...]

9 September by SelahV

QUARRELING AMONGST US

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO STOP IT? I talked with someone last week who was new to blogging. I noticed a comment he’d made in a stream where we Baptists were arguing and debating theology. He wrote that it seemed as though folks were talking past one another in order to make a point. I asked [...]

2 September by Josh Collins

A solution to weekly worship woes…

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Should you preach ignorantly, half-heartedly, “going through the motions” or with the wrong motives? Should you listen to preaching ignorantly, half-heartedly, “going through the motions” or with the wrong motives? Should you worship in song ignorantly, half-heartedly, “going through the motions” or with the wrong motives? Should you give financially ignorantly, half-heartedly, “going through the [...]

1 September by Guest Blogger

What the SBC Blogs are saying…

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