Posts from ‘November, 2007’

While targeted to student evangelism, this video may be part of a comprehensive solution to the problem of declining baptisms:

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 [...]

One of my favorite parts of the BGCO annual meeting is that one of our entities that gives a report to the convention always does something out of the ordinary to spice it up a bit. This year, it was Sam Porter and the Partnership and Volunteer Missions team. With apologies to Mike Gundy, enjoy [...]

These photos are of soon-to-be-former Texas A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione and Arbuckle Baptist Association (ABA) Director of Missions Terry Mott. I’ll let you figure out which is which. I first put this picture together several months ago, just for fun, but an opportunity has presented itself for me to make use of it [...]

[Update: I’ve just learned that Dr. Fannin has been reelected by roughly a 60-40 margin over his opponent, former Capital Association DOM Dr. Ernie Perkins.}
Dr. Alton Fannin, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ardmore, Oklahoma, has served one year as president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO).Generally, presidents are elected to a [...]

Since shutting down his blog in August, Robin Foster has focused his blogging energies on our joint venture, along with Joe Stewart and Tim Rogers, at SBC Today. That blog has an intentional focus on Baptist distinctives, with occasional commentary on the issues of the day in SBC life. Having met our quota for the [...]

I have enjoyed watching CBS’s reality show The Amazing Race. The show provides some fascinating drama as contestants must overcome physical challenges, cultural differences, and traffic in order to be the first to the next pit stop. It makes for some pretty entertaining television.
But the producers are apparently not content with the human drama that [...]