Click here to read my article published in The Pathway: Newsjournal of the Missouri Baptist Convention.

The distribution of the little booklet “Building Bridges” to messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention in San Antonio this past June could signal a major step toward a brighter future for the largest Protestant denomination in America. I, for one, pray that the insights and convictions expressed in this small volume by co-authors Timothy George, […]

Morris Chapman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the SBC Executive Committee, is saying some very interesting, helpful and hopeful things these days. Let’s review a few of them:
“. . . dare we as biblical conservatives to speak of the love of our Lord Jesus Christ and let the world see our love? Do we […]

A couple of weeks ago, I addressed the Theological Sub-committee of the Missouri Baptist Convention on the question of the emerging church. My article on that subject was copied and distributed to the committee of four persons and also to around 10 or so others who were in attendance.
Yesterday this press article appeared on The Pathway […]

My interest in traversing the emerging/missional landscape involves several factors. I am bi-vocational pastor of an inner city Southern Baptist Church, and in my search for help I found Acts29. I was intrigued because of their success in the city combined with unashamed embrace of a fully-orbed evangelical confessional statement versus the doctrine-ophobia I have […]

Congratulations to Ed Stetzer and to Southern Baptists. Ed Stetzer, missiologist and Senior Director of the Center for Missional Research at the North American Mission Board (NAMB), will become director of LifeWay Research as part of a three-way collaborative effort between NAMB, the International Mission Board (IMB) and LifeWay Christian Resources, all SBC entities. I […]

Oh how I love Southern Baptists! Oh how I thank God for them! How good they have been to me. It was from them that I was told about Jesus. It was from them that I was taught that I was a sinner and offered the gospel of Jesus Christ. They gave me a Bible […]

The folowing is an excerpt from my upcoming article on the Emerging Chruch and Southern Baptists: 
 I “had thought” my exposure to Mars Hill marked my introduction to the emerging church only to realize later that Donald Miller’s bestselling book Blue Like Jazz had already brought me into that world. But not so fast. The taxonomy troubles […]

C.S. Lewis was not known for aggressive proselytizing during his tutorial sessions at Oxford and Cambridge. J.I. Packer once had the privilege of attending a Lewis lecture. “There was no clue that the man might be a Christian” Packer reports. There is nothing new here. It has long been known that Lewis, as Packer puts […]

Is there nothing so intrinsically innocent and good that we sinners cannot spoil it? Apparently not. Not even when it comes to prayer. Jesus used the pompous self-serving prayer of a Pharisee to highlight, among other things, the vulnerability of prayer to pernicious use. “Thank you God that I am not like his Publican!” In […]