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29 April by Dave Miller

A Stunning Reminder: The Darkness Lives in Me

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I had a shocking conversation with an old friend this week. He told me that his wife, whom I had known as a vibrant, passionate, committed Christian, had abandoned her family, her faith, and embraced a life of sin with wild abandon.  I would have never believed that it was possible.  I’d preached to her, [...]

29 April by Dave Miller

So, Whatcha Preaching These Days?

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I have been preaching through the book of Proverbs on Sunday Mornings for quite a while. The first nine chapters of the book are 10 sermons that Solomon preached to his sons admonishing them to choose wisdom over folly.  It’s been a lifelong study and I hope, soon, in bookstores near you!  But I’ve been [...]

28 April by Dave Miller

An SBC NOLA 2012 App – Looks Amazing!

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I’m a Droid guy – none of those namby-pamby iPhones for me.  But there is a new app for the iPhone and for Droid, available from your phone’s app store, that is specifically designed for 2012 SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans. I downloaded the app yesterday and played around with it.  Wow!  That is [...]

28 April by Dave Miller

The Southern Baptist Convention: A Testimony of Grace?

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We look back at those who founded the Southern Baptist and those who followed after with honor, even veneration at times.  We fight over their heritage (were they Calvinists or not).  They were men (and women too) of theological depth, evangelistic passion and exemplary character. And they either participated in or turned a blind eye [...]

28 April by Dave Miller

A Meme, A Kerfuffle, and Mitt

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Some memes just never get old.  

27 April by Dave Miller

An Update on William Birch

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On Sunday, March 18, I received an email from William Birch, an up-and-coming Baptist blogger who was part of our “Blue Collar Blog Madness” contest, requesting that he be removed from the contest because of immorality that had taken place. He was non-specific.  Then, of course, the news broke out that Billy had been arrested [...]

26 April by Dave Miller

Race, Reconciliation and the 2012 SBC Annual Meeting

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The good ship SBC was cruising toward NOLA with excitement – our cruise would be marked by progress in racial reconciliation.  Can you remember a year when there was less drama about the presidency when the office was being vacated? Fred Luter will be unopposed, at least by any serious candidate.  It will be historic, [...]

22 April by Dave Miller

An Important Theological Question for NOLA 2012

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It is often hard to find people at the Convention.  So, I’m thinking I should wear this suit that I found on eBay a while back, so that people will be able to find me. Yes, it’s a flourescent lime-green suit. ($25 brand new on eBay – plus shipping). There’s one problem.  I’ve dropped around [...]

21 April by Dave Miller

Chuck Colson has passed away.

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He gained fame as Nixon’s hatchet man during the Watergate scandals. After he was saved, and after his sentence in prison was over, he established Prison Fellowship and became a best-selling author. He has now gone to God’s presence, a testimony of God’s saving and transforming power.

21 April by Dave Miller

An SBC NOLA 2012 Forum

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For those who are readers here, let’s talk about the SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans June 19-20(?). Are you going? What are you looking forward to doing in New Orleans? What significant actions do you hope we will take at the meeting? Would you be interested in a blogger’s get-together (say, Cafe Du Monde) [...]

20 April by Dave Miller

As the Kerfuffle Turns

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Irony of ironies; all is irony. Mark Driscoll has been a hot item on the blogs recently, in case you haven’t heard.  He spoke at a small Christian college out east somewhere, and is doing a conference in that town over the weekend on another hot-button topic. Sex. How does the church address sex? We [...]

19 April by Dave Miller

A Liberty Student Anticipates “The Kerfuffle”

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A student at Liberty, one with both an active mind and some time on his hands, sent me these, and they humored me.  The Baptist blogosphere has been pretty serious recently, so here’s a couple of perspectives on “The Kerfuffle” (Driscoll’s term for the controversy over his appearance at Liberty tomorrow). Also, I am told [...]

19 April by Dave Miller

WHY THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION NEEDS TO GO ON RECORD REPUDIATING THE LAND RACIAL REMARKS By William Dwight McKissic, Sr.

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Richard Land’s racial remarks against the backdrop of the Trayvon Martin tragedy are the most damaging, alienating, and offensive words about race that I’ve read or heard, rendered by a SBC personality, in the twenty-eight years that I’ve served as a SBC church planter/pastor. The pain that Richard Land inflicted upon Blacks in the SBC [...]

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