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Interview with Dr. Jerry Vines
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008We are privileged to bring you today an interview with Dr. Jerry Vines, Pastor Emeritus of First Baptist Church, Jacksonville Florida, and founder of Jerry Vines Ministries. He currently resides in Georgia where, he assures us, he has not taken to riding Harleys (the picture above was used for a special event during his […]
Standard Podcast [23:34m]: Sanctity
Monday, November 19th, 2007The Baptist Faith and Message contains, in Article XV: The Christian and the Social Order, the following admonition:
We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception […]
Interview with Dr. Danny Akin, Links to Resources
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007One of our aims at SBC Today is to be a resource for pastors, and this post is perhaps one of the best we’ve yet had at accomplishing that goal.
Monday, Wes Kenney and I had the opportunity to sit down with President Danny Akin of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. After the interview, Dr. Akin told […]
Interview with Dr. Albert Mohler
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Robin Foster and I, along with blogger, pastor, and fellow Okie Scott Gordon, sat down this afternoon with Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Mohler was in Oklahoma for the Pastor’s Conference preceding the 101st Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, and was gracious enough to spend […]
Do Not Apologize for Truth
Monday, October 29th, 2007In Dr. Thomas White’s chapel message at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on October 18, 2007, he spoke multitudes of truth. He addressed more truth about the issues concerning Southern Baptists in 48 minutes than many have heard in the past 2 years. Dr. White is a very articulate speaker and has the gift of saying […]
On Church Membership and Baptism
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007It was my privilege to serve as chairman of the resolutions committee of the Frisco Baptist Association (FBA) this year. We had our 114th annual meeting last night, and our committee presented five resolutions, all of which passed without opposition.
Below is the text of the longest of the five, a resolution intended to begin conversations […]
Reclaiming the Baptist Distinctive - Baptism by Immersion
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Dr. Jim Richards, Executive Director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and 1st Vice-President of the Southern Baptist Convention, was invited to speak in chapel at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on Tuesday. Dr. Richards spoke on the need for regaining the Baptist distinctive of baptism.
Dr. Richards spoke clearly about this distinctive. He […]
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth
Friday, September 14th, 2007These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly; But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 1 Timothy 3:14-15 (KJV)
We live in an age […]
Democratic Congregationalism, A Seventh Baptist Distinctive in Peril (Part 2)
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Today, we are pleased to present part two (click here for the entire essay) of this essay which will be presented in two parts. After part two is published, the entire essay will be available on the resource page in .pdf format, and a post dedicated to discussion of the issues raised by Dr. Yarnell […]
Democratic Congregationalism, A Seventh Baptist Distinctive in Peril
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Today, we are pleased to present part one of this essay which will be presented in two parts. After part two is published, the entire essay will be available on the resource page in .pdf format, and a post dedicated to discussion of the issues raised by Dr. Yarnell will take its place on this […]