Posts from ‘February, 2007’

Later today, at the urging of another pastor in my association and a church member who is on the local school board, I will umpire a high school baseball game. It has been ten years since I was last on a baseball field, and I’m looking forward to it.
I knew by the time I graduated [...]

For this installment of Weekend Fun, I offer the Oreo personality test:
Psychologists have discovered that the manner in which people eat Oreo cookies provides great insight into their personalities. Choose which method best describes your favorite method of eating Oreo’s:

The whole thing all at once
One bite at a time.
Slow and methodical nibbles examining the results [...]

John Stickley, of Toward the Goal fame, has a great proposal on his blog today concerning a potential mechanism of accountability for SBC bloggers. Head on over and tell him what you think.

This past Sunday, Jeff Richard Young, his wonderful family, and several of their friends were with us in our home and then at church. Last fall, when I learned that Jeff would be leaving the church where he had served as pastor for some four years, I told him I would help in any way [...]

[UPDATE] Since posting this, I have learned some additional details about the program. In order to avoid frustrating customers by periodically closing early on a Saturday, LifeWay stores will instead ask for volunteers to do the work on Sunday afternoons. While this is different than requiring employees to work on Sunday, it is still, in [...]

I’ll try to keep up with Art & Marty on this one.
“The Future of Baptist Identity in a Post-denominational World”
I did not submit that boring title, and I’m not going to talk about it! My title is “Is Jesus a Baptist?”
Testimony
Born in Chatanooga in 1950. Never heard of Jackson – the world stopped at Nashville. [...]

Marty is blogging live to my left, and a conspiracy of some sort has taken Art’s blog down. He’s investigating as we speak.
So go read Marty for live thoughts – I’m going to shut down and listen.

It appears that we only have about 2/3 of this afternoon’s crowd back for this evening’s session with Dr. Jim Shaddix on the future of the traditional church. As the place appears to be bereft of bloggers, I shall attempt to blog this session, updating this post as it develops.
Informed Speculation on the Future of [...]

This is perhaps the longest day I’ve had lately, but it’s been a very good one as well. I left my house in southeast Oklahoma a few minutes before 5:00 this morning, and arrived in Jackson just after 2:00 this afternoon. My hotel room wasn’t ready (check-in isn’t ’til 3), but Art Rogers’ room was, [...]

I don’t agree with everything Jerry Grace says, even in this post, but I appreciate the spirit and even-handedness with which he writes. I especially appreciated the following, as it is reflective of my desires as well:
I want our convention to fly again at the hands of people whose desires come from that alone and [...]