Posts from ‘July, 2006’

Pastor Dennis Newkirk confirms on his blog that the elder council will not ask the church to vote on the bylaw change they had proposed. It is not clear whether this is a postponement or a cancellation, but in either case, the bylaws of Henderson Hills Baptist Church still require that members be scripturally baptized, [...]

In it’s services this weekend, the members of Henderson Hills Baptist Church will vote on approving the recommendation of their elder council to remove the requirement of baptism for church membership. Here is the portion of the bylaw they propose to change (PDF), with the change noted:
Membership will be granted to anyone who offers a [...]

At the risk of drawing the ire of Steve McCoy, who has been unforgiving of the misuse or misunderstanding of this word, I think I’m ready to take a stab at it.
Art Rogers has written some excellent posts (1 and 2) on “programming evangelism.” He suggests that the time-honored approach of confrontational evangelism, the church [...]

I found this indicator for stress on several sites, and if you’ve not seen it, you may find it useful:
I’m not sure exactly how it works, but this is amazingly accurate.
The attached photo has 2 almost identical dolphins in it. It was used in a case study on stress level at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Look at [...]

Congratulations to Guy Muse, our man in Ecuador, who wins this contest with a guess of $4950. Please email me with mailing instructions, and I will get that Starbuck’s card out as soon as I return from the Arctic Edge, our VBS adventure that begins tonight at 6:00 pm.
Contest entries, in order of the values [...]

Well, it’s about time we had a little fun around here, and it seems appropriate to me to use the least fun event of my life recently in order to do it. And as I have been the beneficiary of more than one blog contest that has netted me more than one Starbuck’s gift card [...]

Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, has written eloquently on the subject of baptism and its relationship to church membership on his new blog dedicated to SBC issues, Conventional Thinking.
His post that deals with this topic stems from a proposal by the elders of Bethlehem Baptist [...]

The trustees of the International Mission Board are meeting this week in Richmond, Virginia. The public plenary sessions of these meetings customarily conclude with a report by the chairman. Dr. John Floyd is presiding over his first meeting as chairman, and Marty Duren has reported on his blog that “The chairman’s report included a strange [...]

What follows is the text of a resolution adopted on Monday, July 17, 2006 by the Executive Board of the Capital Baptist Assocation, of which Henderson Hills Baptist Church is a member (HT: Rich Dunbar). While there potentially over 300 members of this board, there were 50-60 in attendance. This resolution was unanimously adopted:

Resolution Affirming [...]

I suggested in an earlier post that the Baptist Messenger, the state Baptist weekly here in Oklahoma, was preparing to weigh in rather heavily on the issue of baptism and church membership in light of the proposed action of Henderson Hills Baptist Church, host of last year’s annual meeting of the BGCO.
I may have understated [...]