Like many of you, I have been doing all I can to keep my church members connected during the COVID-19 lockdown. Also, I have been doing everything that I can to plan and prepare for an eventual corporate worship service. My church gathers this Sunday in a “soft” reopening that does not include Sunday School […]
IMB is asking for mid-year donations
[To be clear, they’re not asking churches for offerings.] All of our entities have suffered. Jobs have been cut and budgets reduced. Financial outlooks have been tempered by the virus crisis. I thought that our International Mission Board was looking at a record Lottie Moon offering prior to the crisis. Surely, a significant reduction is […]
Who is an approved, certified, qualified, recommended, ordained SBC minister?
The short answers are (a) anyone, (b) no one. There is, as all of my informed clergy colleagues know, no such thing as “an SBC” minister. There is no “SBC” ordination. That degree from one of the six SBC seminaries? That expensive sheepskin doesn’t formally recategorize the newly erudite brother as anything other than having […]
That Time Dave Had a Really Stupid Thought
No, it wasn’t the suit – that is still classy after all these years. I remember when we first started facing the idea of a shutdown from the coronavirus, and my first thought was, “I won’t have anything to do.” It was going to be like a lengthy vacation. Sometimes, a man just isn’t thinking […]
Memories of My Best Friend and Mentor, Dr. Robert E. Fowler (Wm Dwight McKissic, Sr)
With apologies, this came through a couple of days ago, but I’ve been a bit overwhelmed and woefully neglecting this site. I sometimes process grief by writing. Most persons who read this article never met, or heard of my best friend over the past 33 years, Rev. Robert E. Fowler. I encourage you to read […]
A Review of Dr. Yarnell’s “Who Is The Holy Spirit? Biblical Insights into His Divine Person.” (Vera McKissic) “
Bibligraphical Info: Yarnell, Malcolm, B., III. Who Is The Holy Spirit? Biblical Insights into His Divine Person. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2019. 121pp. $19.99. Vera McKissic is a student at Southwestern and is the wife of our good friend, Pastor Dwight McKissic. Malcolm Yarnell is research professor of Systematic Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary […]
Revival may indeed break out…pastors are preaching shorter sermons.
LifeWay Research is meddling again with a survey on sermon length. Great work guys. Now it’s confirmed that most pew-sitters prefer a sermon of 20-40 minutes. Personally, I have sat in churches and listened to sermons both short and long that robbed me of 20-40 good minutes. That string of jokes, stories, and guffaw-bait probably […]
Double Trouble for the IMB
I learned several weeks ago that the IMB had evacuated and relocated many of its missionaries around the world. The IMB took action after the US State Department advised all American citizens abroad to return to the USA as soon as possible. The IMB offered its missionaries the option of staying or evacuating. Of course, […]
Prayers for IMB Japan May 13, 2020
Here is a list of prayer requests from our IMB team in Japan. You can find a weekly list here Thank God for the 15 not-yet-believers attending weekly worship and Bible study regularly, pray for the salvation of these and especially two couples, two ladies, a high school boy, and a junior high school girl in […]
COVID, my county, and implications for the next novel virus
I was informed, breathlessly, that my county had seen a huge jump in virus cases just last week. Are we experiencing an exponential expansion of the illness here that requires even more stringent measures by the population? No. Seems the National Guard had been asked to test everyone in a large nursing home. About sixty […]
Prayers for IMB May 11, 2020
Here are some prayer requests from our IMB missionaries in Europe. Please continue to remember ourpain personnel as many of them are in strict lockdown situations where they serve: Spain: During lockdown we have seen many new viewers and guests for online church services. Pray that when lockdown ends, these will translate to seekers out there […]
How Long O Lord? (Adam Wyatt)
Like many of you, earlier in the week, I heard about another seemingly racially motivated attack on a young man in Georgia. And to my shame, I did not investigate it because I was caught in my own world, doing what I thought was important. Not long after hearing about this, I started seeing the […]