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 […]
Counting attendance in the age of COVID-19
You figure it was coming – some guidance, explanation, advice about how to count attendance during this time of cancelled physical services. My church’s last in-the-building service was March 15th. Since then we have had some variety of online services each Sunday and two drive-in services. Our plan is to have drive-in services each Sunday […]
National Day of Prayer Livestream with SBC Leaders Tomorrow, 2:30pm
Baptist press reports that a National Day of Prayer gathering will be taking place tomorrow, May 7, at 2:30 Eastern. J.D. Greear, SBC Vice President Marshall Ausberry, SBC Second Vice President Noe Garcia, as well as other SBC pastors and leaders will be leading the prayer time. Would you join tomorrow? Would you ask your […]
So, who’s getting Uncle Sam to pay your clergy salaries?
I wouldn’t expect all to admit to it, frankly. This is the strangest of strange occurrences: government guaranteed loans paying the salaries of pastors and other church and church related workers. If you’re applying or have received the loan and want to explain your church’s thinking, feel free. I doubt that there will be a […]
Open Letter to R. Albert Mohler, President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Rev. Joel A. Bowman, Sr.)
When Shall We Resume Public Worship?
I have been posting about our church’s efforts to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, and I thought I would bring you up to date. We ended public worship on March 22nd. We’ve webcast our worship services now for six weeks, and more people have viewed our services online than came to public worship. We observed […]