News broke this week that the lawsuit filed against the North American Mission Board by Will McRaney, former executive of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware, was dismissed on Monday. Senior Judge Glen Davidson of the U.S. District Court Northern District of Mississippi ruled that the lawsuit would require the court to determine religious elements in […]
Ronnie Floyd has hit the ground running
As of Tuesday, Ronnie Floyd is the new President-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee. I assume the ‘elect’ part of his new title will be dropped after Sunday when he officially resigns as the Senior Pastor of Cross Church in Northwest Arkansas. It is clear, however, that his dual status this week has […]
‘Pretty much all lies’ is not good enough
Yesterday Ronnie Floyd was elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee. Congratulations! We should all be rooting for Dr. Floyd. I know I am. This is an important time in the life of our convention and we need strong, wise leadership coming from the Executive Committee. Let’s all commit to praying for Dr. […]
JD Greear Was Right to Name Churches
There has been a lot of discussion over the last few days about whether JD Greear was right to call the names of specific churches during his recent address to the Executive Committee. The manuscript for Greear’s entire speech has been published here at SBC Voices. Here’s the relevant portion of the speech: In media […]
‘God’s Man’
The Executive Committee Presidential Search Team announced Tuesday that they have found “God’s candidate” to lead the Southern Baptist Convention’s administrative entity. The announcement comes nearly eleven months after the position of EC President was vacated by Frank Page. I have no doubt that the search team has rightly prayed and sought God’s guidance throughout the […]
So…what happened?
I am on the wait list for the Westin Hotel in Downtown Birmingham for this year’s Southern Baptist Convention. It is one of the convention hotels that is connected to the convention center. Hotel registration opened on Friday at 9am (EST). I was turning my computer on at that time to register. By the time […]
#SBC19 Hotel Reservations Open Friday
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention is still 8 months away, but online hotel registration will open on Friday, October 12 at 9am EST. Normally reservations open on October 1, but this year there have been some complications with renovations at the convention center. This led to the date for reservations being […]
#SBCPC19 Website Is Live
I haven’t seen an announcement in Baptist Press, but today I stumbled across the website for the 2019 SBC Pastors’ Conference in Birmingham, AL. The conference will be held June 9-10 at Legacy Arena just prior to the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The conference president is Danny Wood, pastor of Shades […]
How to Increase Your Missions Offerings
We recently received good news from both the North American Mission Board regarding Annie Armstrong and the International Mission Board regarding Lottie Moon. Both offerings were up. The amount collected for the AAEO was the largest in the offering’s history. The amount collected for the LMCO did not quite meet the goal, but it was […]
Wait…so it IS a gospel issue?
You’ll have to forgive me, but I am a bit confused. For a while now we’ve heard it said that racial reconciliation is not a gospel issue. That’s been applied more broadly recently. It’s said that doing justice is not a gospel issue. Essentially the argument is this: Salvation is by grace through faith. Jesus […]
From the ERLC: A note about a recent video
Concern has been expressed across social media about a video published yesterday on the ERLC website. The ERLC has clarified that the video was published by mistake. Please take note of the just released statement below: Yesterday, the team I lead at the ERLC posted a video on our website about the way humans should […]
SCBC Addresses Aderholt’s Employment and Arrest
Tuesday I published a post here in which I addressed the sexual assault allegations against Mark Aderholt. One of my answers to the question, “What needs to happen now?” was that the executive director of the SCBC must be transparent with its member churches about what he and others responsible for hiring Aderholt knew. If they […]