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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 [...]

Well, obviously I’ve been a little busy lately. I was able to take a vacation with my family following the convention, and we had a great time (with the exception of that little transmission incident). We had some great experiences, from being nearly deafened by Phil Keaggy to having a laugh with Bill Gaither (he [...]

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, [...]

Wade Burleson has written a post today regarding an article in a Memphis newspaper about Bellevue Baptist Church’s mission work in India. His post contains the following paragraph (emphasis original):
Though I am not sympathetic with the anti-missionary viewpoint of the article’s author, I was struck by a little detail or two related to baptism and [...]

The title of this post represents a practice in Southern Baptist life that has always concerned me. Contained within this phrase is the idea that a person’s membership in a local church somehow has its substance in a “letter” that can be moved from place to place. It is not a covenant relationship, but a [...]

It was my privilege to serve as chairman of the resolutions committee of the Frisco Baptist Association this year. We had our 114th annual meeting last night, and our committee presented five resolutions, all of which passed without opposition.
I have posted some commentary on our resolution on church membership and baptism, as well as the [...]

Keith Haygood serves as Worship and Music Ministries Specialist for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. He provides resources and training opportunites for those involved in local church music ministry, as well as providing leadership for the Oklahoma Baptist All-State Youth Choir and Orchestra, and serving as the conductor of the Oklahoma Baptist Symphony. With [...]

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 [...]

Back in February, Jeff Richard Young (pictured here with his son Alex) preached at my church on a Sunday evening. I posted after that an offer to send a CD to anyone who wanted to hear that message. I then failed to mail a disc to those who responded. Oops.
Partly to see if I could [...]