Archive for September, 2013

For Southern Baptists, B. H. Carroll is an iconic figure, and for Texas Baptists he is especially so. During his 28-year pastorate, the First Baptist Church of Waco, Texas became one of the state’s most preeminent congregations. Denominationally, he channeled domestic and foreign missionary efforts, advocated the establishment of the Sunday School Board, helped to Read more

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Peter 3:18) “Grow in Grace” by Charles H. Spurgeon (Morning and Evening, January 4, Morning) “Grow in grace”—not in one grace only, but in all grace. Read more

Yesterday, I was honored to host Dr. Greg Wills and Dr. John Mark Yeats, along with Midwestern Seminary’s own Dr. Michael McMullen, for a panel discussion entitled The Elliott Controversy & the 1963 BF&M: a 50 year Retrospective. Meeting in Kanas City in 1963, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted the first-ever revision of the Baptist Read more

In 1963, Southern Baptists convened in Kansas City, Mo., and adopted the first-ever revision of the Baptist Faith & Message. Like the first BF&M—whose committee was chaired by E. Y. Mullins and adopted in 1925; and the most recent iteration, whose committee was chaired by Adrian Rogers and approved in 2000—each issuance of the BF&M Read more

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’ (Luke 3:4) “The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness” by Charles H. Spurgeon (Morning and Evening, January 3, Evening) The voice crying Read more