The story of Buford Pusser, the legendary sheriff of McNairy County Tennessee, is fascinating. Pusser's career as a wrestler came to a close so he moved his family back to his home place to run a sawmill with daddy Carl. He's shocked to discover the level of corruption going on. And after he is a vi...

Dr. David Dockery, president of Union University and leading statesman in the SBC, recently spoke at California Baptist University in their “Christ & Culture” Lecture Series.  CBU has recently provided two of Dockery’s lectures from this past week from their chapel podcast.  ...

Last week, Tom Ascol expressed his concerns about the vision of Baptist Identity and in particular, their rejection of theological triage using a chapel message delivered by Dr. Malcolm Yarnell on October 30, 2008 at SWBTS chapel.  The message Dr. Yarnell preached was entitled “The Essentials...

1. What is your church doing to deliberately make disciples? 2. What is your church doing to intentionally plant/reproduce new churches? 3. What is your church doing missions-wise to be His witnesses in your Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and ends of the earth? While I realize there is more to being the...

Drs. Alvin Reid and Nathan Finn have begun to write (together) the case for consensus for Calvinism in the SBC.  Contrary to what some believe, I believe this is the desire of most (if not all) Calvinists I know in the SBC.  The series at Between the Times has been encouraging to read, I however w...

   I've considered for some time now experimenting with some new avenues on SBC Tomorrow.  One such laboratory exercise is the addition of regularly scheduled guests who publish essays here.  Keeping with such a vision, today's guest is Luke Liechty.  Luke is not a stranger to Southern Baptist ...

Following up Dr. Reid's helpful post which was an open letter to Calvinists, Nathan Finn (who graded my papers when I was in church history) offers this insightful balance in an open letter to non-Calvinists in the SBC. Finn offers the following advice for non-Calvinists: 1.   First, be sure to art...

In his highly influential Manual of Theology, John Dagg concludes with a small portion entitled “The Duty of Baptists.”  I want to provide an excerpt from his final point, which was: “It is our duty to promote the spiritual unity of the universal church, by the exercise of brother...

Two weeks ago, I shared my thoughts about Baptist Press throwing Mark Driscoll under the bus. One particular point that has been written about is the two competing visions for the future of the SBC.  Here is what I wrote: There are two competing visions for the SBC going on right now: the Great Com...

I just got out of the conference a few minutes ago and thought I'd do a few emails and such.  What did I find?  Hundreds of page views coming from Founders.  I knew Founders had put up a post linking me in their latest crusade.  I did not expect that many page reads, however.  Thank you Dr. Asc...