Category Archives: Regenerate Church Membership

Monday Sermon Idea
To Be a Christian
(Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28; and 1 Peter 4:16)

Posted on June 27, 2011 by sbctoday

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, AL ———————————— These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and other church leaders, both from the exposition and from the … Continue reading →

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Communion and the Covenant Community

Posted on June 26, 2011 by sbctoday

By Wes Kenney, Pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, Valliant, OK At its annual meeting in Indianapolis in 2008, the Southern Baptist Convention spoke clearly on the issue of regenerate church membership. This is an area in which many SBC churches (my … Continue reading →

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Brotherly Love

Posted on April 26, 2010 by sbctoday

NOTE: This post was originally published on my now-mostly-dead personal blog in October of 2007. In doing some research for a report I am to deliver to the Frisco Baptist Association at next week’s annual meeting, I read through some of … Continue reading →

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Poisoning the Fountains of Truth: Part Three

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Robin Foster

This is part of an article originally published January 1922 in the Southwestern Journal of Theology by Dr. L. R. Scarborough entitled, “Poisoning the Fountains of Truth.” It was republished in the most recent Southwestern Journal of Theology, “Baptists and … Continue reading →

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Accepting Candidates for Membership

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Robin Foster

This past Sunday I preached on 1 John 4:1-6. The big idea was that the church is to discern which spirits are from God and which are from the world. Many scholars agree that John was dealing with a heresy … Continue reading →

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WOPR, Johnny Cash, and Regenerate Church Membership

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Bart Barber

If I could start again, a zillion miles away, I would save myself; I would find a way –“Hurt” by Trent Raznor, covered by Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around, ©2002, American Recording Company The palpable agony in … Continue reading →

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