Recently, David Platt made some controversial statements pertaining to asking Jesus into one's heart. At a talk during Verge 2012, Platt said >>>
Recently, David Platt made some controversial statements pertaining to asking Jesus into one's heart. At a talk during Verge 2012, Platt said >>>
Posted by peter lumpkins on May 18, 2012 at 07:03 AM in Baptist distinctives, Baptist personalities, church growth, evangelism, missions, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Last week, I raised the question concerning Andy Stanley’s perplexing story about a gay couple in his church. I wrote:
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Posted by peter lumpkins on May 01, 2012 at 04:29 PM in Baptist personalities, church growth, church planting, contextualization, ecclesiology, emergent emerging emergent church, ethics, evangelicalism, gender issues, homophobia, homosexuality, marriage & family, Peter Lumpkins, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Since the Liberty University fiasco with Mark Driscoll began a few weeks ago, a lot of interesting things grabbed my attention but I just couldn't let go LU's disastrous invitation to the controversial pastor >>>
Posted by peter lumpkins on Apr 25, 2012 at 09:13 AM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist personalities, Calvinism, denominational politics, ecclesiology, emergent emerging emergent church, ethics, evangelicalism, homophobia, homosexuality, Liberty University, Lifeway, Mars Hill Church, NAMB, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by peter lumpkins on Apr 12, 2012 at 10:31 AM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist history, Baptist personalities, Calvinism, elders, emergent emerging emergent church, ethics, evangelicalism, gender issues, Liberty University, marriage & family, misogyny, NAMB, Peter Lumpkins, SBC, SBC issues, sexuality, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by peter lumpkins on Apr 04, 2012 at 07:31 AM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist personalities, emergent emerging emergent church, evangelicalism, Liberty University, marriage & family, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by peter lumpkins on Mar 22, 2012 at 07:42 AM in Arminianism, Baptist personalities, Baptist Press, Calvinism, ethics, non-Calvinism, SBC, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (1)
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The inspired Apostle gives us both exhortation and warning. He writes: >>>
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Posted by peter lumpkins on Mar 19, 2012 at 07:00 AM in Arminianism, Baptist personalities, ethics, homosexuality, SBC, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | Permalink | Comments (6)
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Below are two videos. Both are nutty. Both are extreme. Both miserably represent the Christian faith. Both display Scripture abuse. Both claim biblical authority. Both reveal perversion. Both have representatives in evangelicalism. There is at least one difference. One is rejected as extreme nuttiness by virtually every sector of the Christian church. The other is accepted by a large portion of evangelicalism--including many Southern Baptists--as hip, cool, and doing a great work for God. Guess who is hip and cool and who are considered nuts >>>
Posted by peter lumpkins on Mar 08, 2012 at 08:16 AM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist distinctives, Baptist history, Baptist personalities, Baptist Press, Calvinism, church growth, church planting, contextualization, ecclesiology, emergent emerging emergent church, evangelicalism, evangelism, gospel-centered, hermeneutics, humor, Liberty University, Lifeway, NAMB, religion, SBC, SBC issues, scholarship, snake handling, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, southern culture, theology, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (24)
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UPDATE: another news service asks "Why has Liberty agreed to bring Mark Driscoll to teach on sex?" See the link to the full story below...
David Kupelian is an award-winning journalist, managing editor of WorldNetDaily, and author of two books: his best-selling book The Marketing of Evil and his newest book How Evil Works >>>
Posted by peter lumpkins on Mar 07, 2012 at 12:31 PM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist personalities, contextualization, ecclesiology, emergent emerging emergent church, evangelicalism, Liberty University, NAMB, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (10)
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Only recently, Mark Driscoll's new book on marriage landed him in controversy. Though advocating what can only be described as hedonistic underpinnings for human sexuality, Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, found himself defending yet once again his relationship with the hip Seattle pastor. Akin fully endorsed Driscoll's book but questions arising from the book's contents apparently pressured him into explaining (and qualifying) his curious endorsement of a monograph containing such provocative views like the moral acceptability of a___ s__ >>>
Posted by peter lumpkins on Mar 02, 2012 at 06:35 AM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist distinctives, Baptist personalities, Baptist Press, church planting, emergent emerging emergent church, Liberty University, NAMB, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (33)
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Movie critics attribute to Clint Eastwood the rebranding of the American West. With a series of rugged westerns beginning with A Fist Full of Dollars in 1964, the long, bony cowboy from nowhere and everywhere with a lightning fast draw sealed the ideal image of the loner, macho man on horseback. Surely, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) must rank as one of the best westerns of all time >>>
Continue reading "SBC name change: it's good...it's bad...it's ugly (part I) by Peter Lumpkins" »
Posted by peter lumpkins on Feb 23, 2012 at 02:02 PM in Baptist distinctives, Baptist history, Baptist personalities, denominational politics, Lifeway, SBC, SBC issues, SBC name change, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | Permalink | Comments (3)
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UPDATE: tragically and sadly, William Birch's blog has been removed from the internet. One may find the obvious reason here.
In part I of my response to William Birch’s rebuttal to The Christian Index editor’s editorial opinion, I focused on what I believe to be insignificant quibbling over issues not germane to Gerald Harris’ piece >>>
Posted by peter lumpkins on Feb 14, 2012 at 08:53 AM in Acts 29 Network, Arminianism, Baptist distinctives, Baptist history, Baptist personalities, Calvinism, denominational politics, ecclesiology, Founders Ministries, Georgia Baptist Convention, Lifeway, NAMB, non-Calvinism, Peter Lumpkins, Reformed Baptist, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Christian Index, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (32)
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UPDATE: tragically and sadly, William Birch's blog has been removed from the internet. One may find the obvious reason here.
On Thursday, February 9, The Christian Index, denominational paper for Georgia Southern Baptists, published an editorial opinion by its chief editor, J. Gerald Harris. Entitled, “The Calvinists are here” SBC Tomorrow had sought permission to post the editorial as a guest contribution to our site and permission was granted. One stipulation was, SBC Tomorrow could not post the editorial essay until it was posted online. Agreed. Our posting would be a day later than The Index’s >>>
Posted by peter lumpkins on Feb 13, 2012 at 02:53 PM in Acts 29 Network, Arminianism, Baptist distinctives, Baptist history, Baptist personalities, Calvinism, determinism, ecclesiology, evangelicalism, Founders Ministries, Georgia Baptist Convention, Peter Lumpkins, Predestination, salvation, SBC, SBC issues, scholarship, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Christian Index, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (21)
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Last Thursday, The Christian Index editor, Gerald Harris became a hunted man. His literary crime was posting his personal opinion concerning what he perceives as an unusual rise of Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention and to do so--gulp, gulp--in his personal opinion editorial column of The Christian Index >>>
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Posted by peter lumpkins on Feb 12, 2012 at 05:11 PM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist distinctives, Baptist history, Baptist personalities, Baptist Press, Calvinism, denominational politics, ethics, Founders Ministries, Georgia Baptist Convention, humor, Lifeway, NAMB, non-Calvinism, Peter Lumpkins, SBC, SBC issues, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Christian Index, The Gospel Coalition, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (42)
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UPDATE: the word is LifeWay is preparing a detailed response to Gerald Harris' essay and is scheduled to post this evening on Baptist Press. I'm anticipating precisely what facts in the essay LifeWay intends to dispute.
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Below is the current editorial in The Christian Index, the Georiga Baptist Convention's state paper. Dr. Gerald Harris has served as editor of The Christian Index since May 2003. We happily publish by permission Dr. Harris' latest editoral, "The Calvinists are here" >>>
SBC Tomorrow welcomes Gerald Harris as guest contributor*
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Posted by peter lumpkins on Feb 10, 2012 at 05:21 AM in Acts 29 Network, Baptist distinctives, Baptist history, Baptist personalities, Calvinism, Cooperative Program, denominational politics, ecclesiology, evangelicalism, evangelism, gender issues, Georgia Baptist Convention, gospel-centered, guest contributors, Lifeway, NAMB, non-Calvinism, Peter Lumpkins, preaching, Radical Reformation, Radical Reformers, Reformation, Reformed Baptist, salvation, SBC, SBC issues, SBC name change, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Christian Index, theology, TULIP, Young Restless and Reformed, YRR | Permalink | Comments (12)
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