Archive for December, 2007
Christmas Poetry (Part 3)
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007On this final Saturday before Christmas, we present the last installment of Christmas poetry from Armour Patterson (Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here). As with the other installments, one of the poems is just for fun, while the other is more serious in nature.
The fun:
The Night Before Christmas in the Parsonage
The […]
Baptist Dissent
Monday, December 17th, 2007There are two vivid memories that I have from growing up and the lessons learned from these memories have shaped me in a huge way. The first memory I want to share with you is one about relationship.
I had some friends that were, shall I say, always doing things in expressive ways. Sometimes these ways […]
Christmas Poetry (Part 2)
Saturday, December 15th, 2007This week, we present two more poems from Armour Patterson. The Night Before Christmas in the Hunting Lodge is just for fun, while A Soldier’s Christmas is more serious. It takes the point of view of an imagined Roman soldier, tasked with overseeing Herod’s slaughter of innocents, who meets Jesus half-way to Egypt.
Next week, we’ll […]
Where Would They Lead Us?
Thursday, December 13th, 2007“I don’t care about your doctrines as long as you name the name of Jesus, as long as you believe He died dead [sic] and was buried but came out of the tomb on Sunday morning and ascended to the Father … I don’t care about anything else! Let’s join hands … to get this […]
The Distinctive of Believer’s Baptism by Immersion
Monday, December 10th, 2007Douglas Fairbanks once said; “I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I look around and I know it’s wonderful to be here, but I don’t know where to begin.” As I embark on this post, I must confess I feel much the same way. What else can be said about the ordinance of […]
Christmas Poetry
Saturday, December 8th, 2007Each Saturday between now and Christmas, we will be sharing with you the Christmas poetry of Armour Patterson.
Armour has been married to his wife Rachel since June, 2001. They have no children and they live in Kingman, which is in northwestern Arizona near the borders of Nevada and California. They attend an Independent Baptist church […]
A New Team Member
Thursday, December 6th, 2007The maintenance of this blog is a time-consuming task, and it has been a big job for the four of us to handle. Two of us are pursuing advanced degrees, and all of us are full-time pastors with families, so we have many other things that demand our time as well. This has led us […]
An Ironic TULIP and Similarities of Baptist Confession
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007We are pleased to welcome as a guest writer at SBC Today one of our more frequent commenters, Chris Johnson. Chris is currently the Pastor of Grace Church at Hermitage which is located eleven miles east of downtown Nashville. He is a full-time employee of Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest dialysis provider, with headquarters […]
Dr. Patterson on Calvinism
Monday, December 3rd, 2007I am hopeful that last week’s Building Bridges conference on Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention will be the beginning of an important and helpful conversation about how we can work together as Baptists, Calvinist and non-Calvinist, without any negative effects resulting from our differing viewpoints. There is so much on which we agree that […]