Southern Baptist News & Opinion

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing, everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away! ~ Isaiah 51:11 A bit of a warning: I think this post is as much me trying to work through things [...]

The SBC Plodder is back with his insights into all things SBC.  We always welcome and appreciate his thoughts.  Thank you, William! Fred Luter (image from BP) is expected to be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in just a few weeks in New Orleans. If I am there (and it’s not looking like [...]

“Dear, can you find my face-wash?  It’s in a small bottle with a fuchsia colored lid on the dresser,” my wife lovingly requests. I hurriedly look through a conglomeration of numerous bottles that I am totally unfamiliar with.  I am only vaguely familiar with fuchsia.  I know it isn’t blue, so I quickly eliminate everything [...]

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any [...]

Do you believe in signs? Just as we are getting ready to head to NOLA for the SBC, at which the “Great Commission Baptist” moniker will be on the docket, an amazing event has taken place. ABC has cancelled that piece of putrid filth known as “GCB”, or “Good Christian Belles” or whatever it used to [...]

It is raging.  I’ve been travelling so much and only keeping up with  blogging by phone, but I’ve seen the Steve Gaines video all over the internet. Bart Barber has posted the two videos I copied  below and gave an interesting analysis of the topic, comparing the Sinner’s Prayer to a wedding vow – both [...]

Editor: Ken Hamrick blogs at “Biblical Realist” and lives in Ohio.  I appreciate Ken’ submission of this post.  I fully agree that we have to realize the dangers of splintering and polarization.   The quiet majority is being ignored whenever the more vocal proponents of either extreme frame the argument with the assumption that there [...]

“This is something that, you know, we’ve talked about over the years and she, (Michelle) you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat [...]

There are blogs I love and other blogs I don’t really like. Maybe you care about my opinions, perhaps you don’t. But I spent a lot of time on the road recently.  Blogging is way to big a part of my life and takes up way too much of my limited brain capacity, so I [...]

1.  President Obama has betrayed the Bible and the Black Church with his endorsement of same-sex marriage. The Bible is crystal clear on this subject, and the Black Church strongly opposes same-sex marriage. His endorsement is an inadvertent attack on the Christian Faith. America is now a candidate for the same judgment received by Sodom [...]

Editor: When I read about Richard Land’s recent meeting and his apology, my first thought was to wonder what Pastor Dwight McKissic thought about it.  I was thrilled that he offered this post with his reflections for our consideration.  Thank you, Dwight! God said, “If My people who are called by My name will humble [...]

I’ve heard the mantra for at least a decade now: “Southern Baptists are known more for the things we are AGAINST than the things we are FOR!” It’s a pretty decent applause line for a sermon. I’ve probably used it myself somewhere along the way. But I’m beginning to rethink the logic behind it, for [...]