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SBC VOICES: BLOGGING NETWORK FOR SOUTHERN BAPTIST BLOGGERS

Tony Kummer serves on staff at a Southern Baptist church in Madison, Indiana and is a student at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He's putting together a very helpful site attempting to network all bloggers who identify as Southern Baptist. He also breaks out the bloggers by state so you can easily find other bloggers in your own home state >>> Tony thinks he may have 300 by Febuary! I had no idea there were 300 Southern Baptists who blog. My feedreader subscribes to only a fraction of that. If... Read more →

SBC Tomorrow: A Few New Year's Blog Resolutions for 2008

Resolved: To please my Lord with this meager attempt to blog about Baptists >>> Resolved: To write in such a way that honors our Lord Jesus, both in post as well as exchanges on the comment thread Resolved: To own up to any and all discrepancies I find myself in as writer of this blog Resolved: To be as kind and as gentle as possible to all who frequent this site, and that without sacrificing my commitment to what I believe to be the truth Resolved: To offer as balanced... Read more →

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all... Read more →

Silent Night...

I trust you have a grace-filled Christmas. Peace. With that, I am... Peter Read more →

Response to Grace and Truth to You: Southern Baptists Cooperating With Charismatics and Women Senior Pastors for the Sake of the Gospel

Dear Wade, Thanks for the heads up on the Conference where supposedly Baptist Pastors are cooperating with Charismatics, not to mention being on the same platform with women who serve as Senior Pastors. I am confused, however, why you think Ed Young, James Merritt and Ken Whitten's cooperating with Charismatics and women senior pastors is analogous to Dwight McKissic, Dwain Miller and Scott Camp's* appearance on TBN. I am quite sure that either of these men will preach the truth as he sees it, albeit the conference may dictate the... Read more →

Uniformity On Steroids

There is little doubt in my mind that there exists presently, in the SBC, a deliberate push to dilute some of the historic distinctives that have made us Baptist. From the recent TBN Baptist-Charismatic lineup poised to pray all Southern Baptists receive the gift of tongues...to the quasi-evangelicalism promoted by the Enid-Outpost coalition...to the moderationists who insist having a few beers with the boys is not so bad, we are being hit from almost every conceivable angle >>> A real danger many of us face--that is, those of us who... Read more →

Southern Baptists Possess the Sickness...TBN Possesses the Cure

I have never considered myself an enemy of the charismatic phenomenon. Years ago, it was Professor Dale Moody who picked my interest in such by noting in his systematic theology that we Baptists would do well if we listened very intently to what the charismatic movement of the 60s was saying. I did. Or, at least, I tried to >>> I read some of the earliest charismatic pioneers in the last quarter of the 20th century. Episcopal Priest, Dennis Bennett shaped popular opinion perhaps more than any one person in... Read more →

Southern Baptist Blogs: Dolts in our Denomination

After reading today's post from this blog, I think I just experienced an epiphany...an insight into much of our difficulty in the Southern Baptist Convention. As the post demonstrates, we are receiving the most ridiculous, outlandish criticisms about the people known as Southern Baptists, that it's hard to take seriously much less spend the time and energy to offer an answer >>> What do you say to a charge that Southern Baptists are on the verge of being a 'benign cult'? This morning I had two older ladies come to... Read more →

Calvinism & Controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention

The Building Bridges Conference at Ridgecrest Conference Center November 26-28 stirred but the slightest denominational dust among Southern Baptists. But why should it? Billed as a venue to understand better the differences between Calvinism and NonCalvinism, the conference hoped to bury the theological hatchet between the sides of good and the sides of the not-so-good (each side of which is interpreted by its dedicated adherents). Or, if not bury the hatchet, at least put it on the shelf for a while. It's time to stop hacking to pieces our Baptist... Read more →

Peter Lumpkins: With That, I am...

At the risk of being too personal, this post focuses more on me than I normally allow. It is not that I am reluctant for people to know who I am. Most ministers finally accept the reality that, to a large extent, they live in see-through quarters. Rather, it is simply not the purpose toward which I started this site. Forgive me, then, as I become a bit too personal... By Conversion, I'm Believer. Growing up in Tennessee hills, I was the last of twelve children. We lived in a... Read more →

John Goodwin: A Puritan Rejection of Particular Redemption

Educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, John Goodwin (1593-1665) served successively as rector of East Rainham, Norfolk (1625-1633) and vicar of Saint Stephen's, London (1633-1645) >>> Goodwin was a prolific writer and stirred more than his share of controversies in his day. In a work entitled, Bone for a Bishop, he argued against the divine right of Kings, a dissent of which he could have been hanged. Yet Goodwin tirelessly advocated many radical causes including the army's purge of Parliament (1648) and the execution of Charles I in 1649. He firmly... Read more →