I can’t think of any topic that will dominate the SBC Annual Meeting in Birmingham moreso than sex abuse. While the SBC is meeting in Birmingham, sex abuse victim advocates and victims will hold a rally. This is the ForSuchATimeAsThisRally. It will be held outside the convention center on Tuesday, June 11, from 5 to […]
2019 SBC Annual Meeting Schedule
We are now just 21 days from the start of 2019 Southern Baptist Convention. You know by now that the theme established by SBC President JD Greear is Gospel Above All from 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. I am looking forward to being in Birmingham for a couple of days as we hear reports, consider recommendations, and […]
BREAKING: Dr. Jamie Dew to be Nominated as NOBTS President
NOBTS Search Team Chairman, Dr. Frank Cox, has announced that Dr. James Dew of North Carolina will be presented to the full Board of Trustees as the candidate to serve as the next President of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. A special called meeting will take place Wednesday, June 5th on the campus of NOBTS at 9 […]
Prayers for IMB May 20, 2019
Good morning everyone. I hope everyone had a great day at church yesterday. I have a couple of prayer requests from Europe this morning. If you’d like to spend some more time in prayer for our IMB missionaries, click over to Prayers for IMB Poland–Pray for students from California Baptist University working on a university campus […]
A Stark Reminder of Easter’s Victory
I recently visited my dad and mom at their home in Florida and had a great time sitting and talking with them. I am a bad son. When I get time away from the church I tend to visit my grandkids and I haven’t been down to Florida in several years. I was trying to […]
Why Do They Hate Us? A (Totally and Completely Serious) Plea on Behalf of Corpulent Baptists (Really!)
As I write this (Monday May 13) I am wearing a nifty “Send Relief” t-shirt – for the first time. When I received it, the largest size they had was 2xl and I was 3xl and in some shirts even bigger. I am now able to wear the 2xl. You guys know me. I”m all […]
Can we avoid an SBC Hobbesian nightmare on gender issues?
Contributors here at SBC Voices have a couple of articles this week on the SBC and gender. These looked to me to be among the most irenic and amicable approaches possible to an issue that is important to the SBC. Elsewhere, teeth have been set on edge with more vicious and forceful discussions. Brent Hobbs, […]
SBC Leadership Diversity Initiative – One Year In
One year ago today Alan Cross and I announced the launch of the SBC Leadership Diversity Initiative. I wanted to celebrate the progress we’ve made this year and update our readers on some of what we’ve seen. The LDI was designed as a networking tool for us to be able to discover and identify Southern […]
Prayers for IMB May 17, 2019
I’m typing this while watching Golden State vs. Portland in game 2, so please forgive me if an errant yessss!!!! finds its way into this post. It’s been two months since I started this ministry with a Twitter feed. Since that time, I’ve been able to correspond with some awesome missionaries. One of those awesome […]
Friendly Fire and Elephants
I have started, deleted, and restarted this post no less than 25 times. There is a war waging inside; it’s a war between being misunderstood versus the deep felt emotion that runs through my veins. It gives my stomach a bit of a sick feeling and a slight lump in my throat. It is a […]
Things I Wish I Knew Before Going Into Ministry (Lee Faler)
Editor’s Note: we are going to be including regular features of interest to Southern Baptists. There is a fine new blog called “Small Church Shepherds ” and I invited them to share their posts here. I was ordained into the gospel ministry six year ago, and have been on staff as either a pastor or youth […]
Cooperation and Complexity on the Question of Women Preaching
Especially over the past year or two, I believe we’ve moved in a healthy direction. We’ve started to see more clearly the giftedness of our sisters in Christ, how much we should be honoring their service to the church, and how valuable their contribution is. Not everyone has moved in this direction, but thankfully many […]