SBC Voices

Editor: CB Scott needs no introduction. All over the United States young men and small boys are getting ready for the first of the season game of America’s greatest sport, FOOTBALL. Old men are cleaning B-B-Q grills, buying pork ribs, chops, and butts, and all the while checking to make sure their favorite team shirts and jerseys from last season still fit for when they go to the first game of the season so they will look trim and athletic for their tailgate debut. They are also making sure their wives ordered all the right tickets to the right games. No self respecting FOOTBALL fan wants … [Read more...] about Football is in the Air (by CB “Sabanation” Scott)

I am afraid that sometimes we fail to preach the full story of the gospel. We focus on Christ's death for sin (as we should) but we sometimes neglect the primary emphasis of gospel presentations in the Book of Acts - the victorious resurrection of Jesus Christ and his exaltation as Lord of all!  We need to proclaim both the substitutionary death and the glorious resurrection of Christ. Here is a message I preached August 19, 2012 at Southern Hills Baptist Church, if anyone is interested. A couple of things: 1) The video and audio get crossways about halfway through the sermon, so the … [Read more...] about Preaching the FULL Gospel in a Baptist Church!

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.  -Proverbs 14:30 Every morning several blogs, including Borrowed Light, will feature a list of recommended articles from the day before.  For a little guy like me making it on one of these lists will mean an instant boost in traffic. I normally get about 400-500 hits per day.  Not much, but it’s a steadily increasing number.  The few times that I have gotten a link from a certain blogger, whose name rhymes with Clem Tallies, my hit count went up to about 3000 for the day.  Not to mention gaining a handful of … [Read more...] about How to Not Host a Rotting Blog

Small wooden houses in the Texas heat.  Wild felines under the wooden floors and joists, fighting and mating.  Laurel Drive and the canals on the other side of the tracks.  The high school, built like a prison and emblazoned with traditional purple and gold.  First Baptist Church on Main Street in the days before they built the annex. Service. She was young when it first occurred to her.  It wasn’t a call so much as merely a desire.  To serve the Lord and His people, wherever they were, just seemed instinctive.  It was natural, of course, to someone who cut her teeth on stories of Hudson … [Read more...] about The Goal of a Servant’s Heart

I know that, typically, I tend to post things here with either allegorical or metaphorical significance, trying to address one issue by using a parallel topic. Or even an off-the-wall topic, perhaps, to make a point. That is not my intention with this post. If you see a connection to Calvinism/Traditionalism/Pro-Gospel Project/Anti-Gospel Project, or the CR, or the GCR, or the Great Name Change Committee, or anything else, my first response to you is that you really might need to take a blog break. My goal here is to put this conundrum to us all for consideration. Over the past few … [Read more...] about Loving our enemies and posting a guard

I feel so much like Michael Corleone right now.  I want to ignore the Calvinism wars. I want to talk about something else. I want to move on the things that I think are more important that are being ignored in our obsession with promoting or assailing Calvinism.  But, as soon as I make a commitment, then: Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in! Alan Cross wrote a powerful article at his site, Downshore Drift, called, "Does Al Mohler Need to Repent of Promoting Calvinism?"  In that article, he calls on Dr. Mohler to change his ways, asking him to tone down the rhetoric … [Read more...] about A Plea to Mohler, Nettles and the Founders

I have really poor eyesight. Not able to see the big giant “E” type of horrible eyesight. Not even knowing that there are letters I’m supposed to see type of horrible eyesight. Nevertheless, I was planning on driving 45 miles without my contacts.  I wanted God to know I was serious about having my eyes healed.  It wasn’t really bugging me that I couldn’t see but my homeboy Benny Hinn was telling me that I needed to whole and complete and not have any sickness.  I felt fine, but these dastardly eyes were a problem. So I did what he told me to do. With trembling hands I touched … [Read more...] about Review of Health, Wealth, and Happiness

It’s about Jesus and the Bible.  I think that’s enough said on that one. It’s theologically deep.  Southern Baptists are a broad group.  You won’t have any curriculum produced by anyone that represents the broad spectrum of theology.  This is why the BF&M2000 is a “wide tent” in many areas.  To present every side is overkill, to present a general gloss is shallow.  This stretches us to ponder... It draws from a variety of sources throughout the church and church history.  There’s a Simpson’s episode where the Simpsons end up in heaven…a heaven that is divided into different parts … [Read more...] about 7 Reasons Why I Am Enthusiastically Using the Gospel Project

It is no secret that I am weary of the incessant and petty bickering about Calvinism that has marked so much of the SBC's discussion, and has been the driving force on blogs. Frankly, that is all that some people want to talk about. But maybe that is only because that is all we've given them to talk about. We have a big God and a big Bible and there are lots of interesting topics to write about. Ecclesiology. Ministry strategies. Missions. Engaging culture. There are a lot of things that we could talk about that are more important than the kerfuffle that has marked us.  Honestly, I never … [Read more...] about I Need Your Help – Contributions Needed (Articles, not Money!)

Editor: I read this post at Trevin's site and thought it was brilliant. Trevin was gracious enough to offer it to me to repost here.  I am grateful for that. Enjoy! There is never a dull moment when the Wax family gets together. We are all opinionated, loud, and passionate. Just ask our spouses. Or our kids. We have never been the kind of family who gets together at holidays and birthdays and wastes time with chitchat. Polite conversation is boring. So we tend to focus on subjects you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company. Politics and theology dominate. Sometimes, when I see … [Read more...] about Denominations Ought to Be More Like Family (by Trevin Wax)