Posts from ‘March, 2006’

Here’s a good post for this Final Four weekend. I have for years asked the following trivia question:
Name colleges that compete in NCAA Division I football or basketball whose mascot names do not end with the letter “s”.
An example would be the Stanford Cardinal. There are at least eight or nine others, but I’ve never [...]

I was surfing around the SBC blog world tonight when I came across a comment that raises some issues I want to address. The blog where the comment was made was Standing for Truth, published by the ubiquitous and pseudonymous (big words, huh?) Villa Rica.
The specific comment was on a post that was really a [...]

Paul Littleton, Pastor, Faith Baptist Church, Sapulpa, OK (L)
Niki (R)
A better resemblance, in my opinion, that Paul’s pairing of me with Texas A&M men’s basketball coach Billy Gillespie…

Chanakya has been called the Indian Machiavelli. He was born circa 350 BC, and served as advisor and prime minister to the Indian emperor Chandragupta Maurya. He is widely regarded as India’s first real political theorist.
A famous philosophy with which he is credited is summed up in the phrase, “The enemy of my enemy is [...]

I had a wonderful visit this afternoon with a former trustee of the International Mission Board. This trustee was intimately involved in the process that led to Dr. Jerry Rankin becoming IMB President, and had some interesting things to say about the current situation in which we find ourselves as a convention.
While I’m not at [...]

Dorcas Hawker, an attorney from Arlington, Texas, is a blogger and frequent contributor to blogs that are a part of the incredible conversation we as Southern Baptists are having. Her love and great wisdom come through in every post and comment she makes, and she is certainly an asset not only to her church, where [...]

In a previous post titled Truth (which was half-eaten by Blogger and not saved by me), I referred to R.C. Sproul’s illustration about Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill to make the point he made, which was that people saying contradictory things cannot both be telling the truth. I could say the picture above is blue, [...]

[UPDATE: I interrupt this opinion (you'll be disagreeing soon, anyway) to give a big bunch of respect to ART ROGERS for his prediction of the action of the IMB BoT that is the subject of this post. Go read The Hidden Issue, and tell me it isn't a little scary, considering it was posted February [...]

The events in this city, this week, need all of our prayers.
There are many important issues to be addressed this week by the trustees of the International Mission Board meeting in Tampa. No personality, no political agenda, no personal expectation must come before the most important task, which is pushing back the frontiers of darkness [...]

[UPDATE: The following is not intended to suggest a conversation, but is simply a juxtaposition of public statements made over the last several weeks. It is not chronological, and I regret that it may have appeared to some to have been intended as such.][HT: Art Rogers]
This should be informative. In this exercise, the words of [...]