European secularists describe Calvin the same way a lot of contemporary American Christians do. Huh.
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Mount Calvary Baptist Church in WORLD Magazine
My home church has been featured in WORLD Magazine for its outreach efforts, especially its Released Time classes. Dozens of Mount Calvary people are actively and frequently involved in the lives of needy kids, teens, and adults, and I am so eager to see what the Lord...
1Marks Interview Series
At this year's very enjoyable BJU Seminary retreat at the Wilds, Dr. Robert Bell kindly agreed to sit for the first interview in what I hope to make a series, the 1Marks Interview Series. (While other ministries can afford to hire multiple Marks, βλογάπη has only one,...
You Lie!
I finished up the history of Southern Seminary. I couldn’t help it. It was a riveting read. I knew the conservatives would win in the end, I just couldn’t guess how Providence would manage it. The story was worse than I expected. When liberal-moderates realized that...
A Truly Great Line from a Truly Great Book
I'm still thoroughly enjoying—and receiving historical instruction from—Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859–2009. I just got through the major fight liberal-moderate president Duke McCall had in the 1950s with a group of liberal-moderate faculty. McCall won,...
George vs. (?) Beckwith
I found this video deeply disturbing and disappointing. I love the gospel, and to see it obscured by a former ETS president and the author of an excellent commentary on Galatians—of all books—was a painful frustration. In the discussion, held before an audience at...
Sadness over Southern
I can hardly put Gregory Wills' history of Southern Seminary down, and I'm willing to call it a must-read for conservative evangelical and fundamentalist seminarians. It was thrilling to read of Boyce and Broadus' doctrinal rigor and foresight, and it's been deeply...
The New New International Version
The much-maligned TNIV will be no more. A newly revised NIV will come out in 2011, the 400th anniversary of the release of the KJV. I did not realize that the NIV had not been updated since I was in preschool. The NIV is the most popular Bible translation in English,...
Al Mohler on the Conservative Takeover of Southern Seminary
I've read about 200 pages of Gary Wills' history of Southern Seminary, including the final section on the Mohler years (I couldn't wait!), and I'm really enjoying it. God used James Boyce to perform Herculean tasks to keep the seminary alive in the early years, and...
Farmteam Community Church
American Idol's amazing popularity makes it a very interesting subject for cultural criticism. This year's win of a former worship leader over an androgynous rocker raised the following question on GetReligion, an insightful blog: Has Sunday morning in megachurch...
Losing the Gospel
Recently I spoke to a man from the depressed neighborhoods surrounding my church, a man who, sadly, had utterly no understanding of the gospel—and a man who recently became a baptized member at the nearest Southern Baptist Church. Many leaders of the SBC have been...
Words of Controversial Wisdom from Someone Else Don’t Blame Me I Just Repeated It But I Do Think They Are Wise So Take Them Under Advisement and May the Lord Grant You Wisdom
Here are two arguments I took down from a conversation I had with a musically oriented older man who has significant seminary training. I offer them for your consideration; I thought they were wise: When people are dancing and acting without inhibition at a rock...