(William Thornton is the “SBC Plodder” and shares his perspective on SBC and cultural issues. This post seemed like one that SBC Voices readers might like to discuss. Discuss amongst yourselves!) Would someone with above plodder intelligence please make a cogent case for or against Sunday sales of alcohol here in Georgia? At the moment […]
Not Sure Where I Fit In…(by Tom Bryant)
(Editor: I often browse the blogs of people who comment here at SBC Voices. I browsed Tom’s blog – The View from Osprey – yesterday and came to one conclusion – he doesn’t write often enough. He has a brilliant post which I got permission to copy here. Thought you might enjoy it.) Do you […]
How Does a Pastor Recover from Mental and Emotional Exhaustion? (by Brian Croft)
Editor: I’ve been there. How about you? Brian Croft is Senior Pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Someone sent me a link to this article and I thought it was wonderful. Very helpful. Brian’s Blog “Practical Shepherding” is well worth reading contantly, pastors. I’ll let you know. In other words…I’m there. I’m not […]
NIV 2011: Yesterday’s NIV is now Today’s NIV: A Transformation of a Translation Reflecting Today’s Culture
(Editor’s Note: Si Cochran is a 2007 graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and currently serves as the youth pastor of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Sioux City, IA. That would make him my youth pastor! Si blogs at “Holiness, Justice and Grace.”) As the old Italian proverb goes, “Translation is treason.” The treasonous nature […]
RESOLVED: THE CASE FOR RESOLUTIONS By Nathan Finn
I appreciate Dave Miller giving me the opportunity to weigh in on this topic for SBC Voices. This post is intended as a response to Dave’s interesting post “Be It Resolved: Resolutions Are a Waste of Time! Or Are they?” Dave concludes: At the current time, here’s my stance. I see a little value in […]
Giving Thanks – by Alberta Fisher
(Editor’s Note: Thank you, Alberta, for sharing this with us. Alberta’s blog is “A Pastor’s Wife’s Journey” and here website is “So You’re the Minister’s Wife.”) Thanksgiving is the act of giving thanks to a person or to God. It should be a genuine expression and acknowledgement of what has been done for us. Ephesians 5:20 […]
What the SBC Blogs are saying…
Here are the latest posts from the most influential SBC blogs and news feeds. Posts from all 500+ blogs are listed on our SBC blog directory page.
Joe Thorn on Procrastination
Here are some excerpts from a post by Pastor Joe Thorn. It is a great post and I hope you to head over to his blog to read the rest! For years I was a serious procrastinator. In fact, I think I could have gone pro (if that sort of thing paid). So I did […]
Unofficial Report: Caner no longer dean of LBTS as of June 30
This entire post is from James White: This was just reported by the News and Advance out of Lynchburg: Liberty University announced today that Ergun Caner will no longer be dean of the university’s Baptist Theological Seminary. After an investigation conducted by four members of Liberty’s Board of Trustees, the university said it found that […]
A Cry From The Little Church
When we gather next week in Orlando for the annual Convention of Southern Baptists, I will be enthusiastically voting to elect Dr. Ted Traylor as the new President of our great convention. I believe he is the best servant to lead our denomination during this critical time. I have had the great honor of knowing […]
A Word to Young Southern Baptist Pastors
This is part of a post by J.D. Greear. The entire post can be found here. I want to address those of you who, like me, have a Baptist past but have often found yourself wondering, regarding the Southern Baptist Convention, “What is the point? Aren’t denominations a thing of the past?” I want to try […]
Why One State Convention President Supports the GCR
Why does the President of the West Virginia Baptist Convention support the GCR? 1) The GCR says out loud, what I have been thinking for a long time. The Southern Baptist Convention is losing ground in an increasingly lost culture. In the United States, we baptized 33,000 fewer people in 2008 than in 1950, and […]