SBC Voices

Les Puryear is in the process of planting a church with very little funding.  At his blog, “Joining God in His Work“, he gave some very helpful suggestions how someone might plant a church without a large bankroll behind him.  I asked him for permission to reprint that here. With all the discussion over the funding […]

Paul had some great churches that he had planted, but he had one dysfunctional fellowship that he was continually correcting and trying to set back on the right path – the church at Corinth.  Corinth was a splintered church in just about every way.  For goodness sakes, they even found a way to observe the […]

We love our drama.  We love putting other people down and raising ourselves up—it is a part of our sick, corrupt, twisted, and less-than-human (the way God created us, at least) nature. I talked to an ex-student of mine.  She told me about all the soap-opera like events going on at the school ranging from […]

Yes, that’s right, I love the SBC. I am a 34 year old Associate Pastor in Iowa, surrounded by people who either marginally like, don’t care or just flat out dislike the Convention. I have been part of the SBC since 9 month before I was born, but it’s not cause my parents were die […]

A pastor will typically spend hours studying over a text to preach it on a Sunday morning.  He wrestles through the difficult parts of the text.  There is much sweat and labor that goes into preparing a message.  Often times God will preach the sermon to our own hearts before we preach it to others. […]

This is a follow-up to some of the discussion in my Something Old, Something New post.  I posited that my position on the relationship between Israel and the Church does not lend to a pre-tribulation rapture.  This brought up the common notion of the tribulation being the wrath of God poured out upon the earth.  […]

Biblical scholar and theological genius Harold Camping has demonstrated with devastating exegetical precision that the Rapture will occur on May 21, 2011, followed by five months of judgment on earth with the end of the world occurring on October 21, 2011.  You can read the tract here, but the logic is brilliant beyond disputation. I would like […]

I spent a week at the Exponential Conference, a church planting conference in Orlando FL. It pushed me and challenged me in ways I had never considered. One of the things I came away with is a quote from Alan Hirsch, he said “the church doesn’t innovate”. The more I think about that, the more […]

Throughout the entire story of redemptive history, the children of Abraham were, are, and always shall be the only and singular chosen people of God. The Bible starts with a rapid succession of events spanning from creation to sometime after the flood.  While in the first two chapters everything is good and very good, from […]