Posts under ‘challenge’

I was asked by my Director of Missions to write a letter to my fellow pastors in the Frisco Baptist Association about our church’s involvement in the Christmas in August emphasis. Below is the text of my letter.
Dear Pastor,
I’m writing to ask you to consider putting a critical need before your people: the budget shortfall [...]

Tonight I will be taking a group of my church members to a commissioning service for new IMB missionaries. This service is being held at the First Baptist Church in Sunnyvale, Texas, a suburb on the east side of the DFW metroplex.
I’ve been closely following events in our convention, and specifically related to the IMB, [...]

Sometimes, [God] speaks loudly and gets our attention. Other times, he whispers.

I’ve been too busy with church, school, and SBC Today to do any posting here lately, but I’m grateful that so many still stop by every day, just in case. I want to urge my readers to pray for the Cross family.
I’ve gotten to know Alan the way many of you have, through blog comments. [...]

Of all the programming on all the channels on all of Dish Network, I had to stumble across Casablanca. I’m a bit bleary-eyed this morning, as I began watching a little after 11:00 PM last night, and stayed with it until the very beginning of a beautiful friendship.
What a great movie. I didn’t much care [...]

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears [...]

Dr. Bart Barber has recently published on his blog an outline of what he calls The Fifth Century Initiative. It is a document that outlines doctrines and practices that are biblical and have historically distinguished those who call themselves Baptist from other Christian groups, and calls for a renewal of emphasis on these distinctives. I [...]

But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
- Acts 9:40 (ESV)

I wonder if there are people in our lives, perhaps people we see every day, who are spiritually dead, and [...]

In my research for a sermon last week (the picture is of my daughter’s notes taken during said sermon), I came across a news story about a vegan couple who were sentenced recently to life in prison for the death of their six week old son. Apparently, the child had been fed a diet of [...]

Every so often I feel the need to remind you of the great work being done by Joel Bezaire on his blog, Crummy Church Signs. It’s not easy being subjected to so much bad theology and so many lame attempts to be cute, but Joel does it so you don’t have to.
The sign in this [...]