I like LifeWay Christian Stores pretty well; run by our Southern Baptist friends, LifeWay promotes a decent amount of good stuff book-wise; unlike Family Bookstores, where I’d be thrilled to toss maybe 70% of its products in the garbage bin (and I’m being charitable using that figger), I...

It’s a rhetorical question at best, because the answer is absolutely, positively, “Yes.” Last October at my local association’s meeting there were exactly two people in the room under age 35. I was one. Another seminary student who is also a pastor, and preaching one of the t...

Tagged notes in Facebook are up five times the usual amount due to the popularity of the “25 Random Things” chain letter.  Another blogger then inspired me to do this.  All of these are genuine beliefs of mine, although the things I decided to write here were, in part, inspired by thin...

I originally was going to write just a couple of paragraphs about my further thoughts hours after writing part one as a comment to the original article. However, the couple of paragraphs turned into another post altogether. Thinking about part one of this post hours after writing it, I came to the r...

I originally was going to write just a couple of paragraphs about my further thoughts hours after writing part one as a comment to the original article. However, the couple of paragraphs turned into another post altogether. Thinking about part one of this post hours after writing it, I came to the r...

To my Baptist friends (whether you are Southern, independent, or fundamentalist) I apologize, repent, and ask for your forgiveness (1): In my younger days of pentecostalism, I (like the other pentecostals in that congregation) used to say ‘amen’ and clap with fervent emotionalism when th...

To my Baptist friends (whether you are Southern, independent, or fundamentalist) I apologize, repent, and ask for your forgiveness (1): In my younger days of pentecostalism, I (like the other pentecostals in that congregation) used to say ‘amen’ and clap with fervent emotionalism when th...

  Founders Calvinists never appear weary in quoting a particular excerpt from the mighty English Baptist preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon: "I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a n...

    By Dr David Allen Since the John 3:16 Conference, there has been an excessive amount of attention to my comments concerning James White on the various Calvinist blogs. Allow me to set the record straight on three fronts: 1) what I said, 2) the context in which I said it, and 3) why I said it....

Praise.  The.  Lord. Messengers at this year’s state convention of Southern Baptists in North Carolina voted by a 55-45 margin to reduce the number of giving plans in the state from four to one, thus eliminating the practice of church’s that send money to the BSCNC delegating some of t...