W4YS (Wisdom For Your Summer): Best Books of 2016
If you’re looking for some summer reading (and you should be), here is my list of books I’ve read in the last 6 months that I would...
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Jun 15, 20162 min read
Why I Am Voting for Steve Gaines as President of the SBC
Yesterday the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention voted for president of the SBC. And then, because it was too close to call,...
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Jun 10, 20161 min read
Meet Me in St. Louis! #SBC2016
In a little over a day, I’ll be headed to St. Louis for this year’s Annual Meeting of the SBC. I always look forward to attending the...
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Jun 8, 20163 min read
Lottie Moon – A Cause for Celebration & A Call to Action
This week, the International Mission Board announced that the 2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (the IMB’s primary source of funding)...
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Jun 7, 20169 min read
How Can We Reverse Our Downward Trend of Baptisms?
Just today, the SBC’s Annual Church Profile (ACP) was released, and many of the statistics are troubling. Attendance throughout our...
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Jun 1, 20166 min read
Brother Bill & 43 Years of Faithfulness
A couple weeks ago, Bill Ricketts announced his retirement from Prince Avenue Baptist Church (PABC) in Athens, GA. You may be wondering,...
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May 26, 20161 min read
Preaching Like Jesus to the LGBT Community
The narrative our culture puts forward regarding homosexuality is that we have only two options—affirmation or alienation. Sadly, the...
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May 17, 20163 min read
What Is the Future of the Southern Baptist Convention?
I’m excited to introduce and host a new website about the future of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), which we’re calling...
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May 10, 20163 min read
Three Lies About Forgiveness
A few years ago I read a fascinating book called The Bishop of Rwanda, by John Rucyahana. He talked about the horrible genocides in...
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Apr 25, 20166 min read
Why Aren’t Baptists … Baptizing?
The past few years have been challenging for many Baptist churches. Across the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole, we’ve seen the...
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Apr 6, 20165 min read
Is Your Church a Safe Place for People with Same Sex Attraction?
This guest post comes from Brad Hambrick, our Pastor of Counseling. For more, be sure to come to the SJI Forum that Brad is leading on...
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Apr 4, 20164 min read
5 Necessary Elements for Creating an Evangelism Ethos
Healthy things tend to grow, so it’s hard to regard a church that is not growing evangelistically as healthy, regardless of whatever else...
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Mar 30, 20164 min read
Why Don’t We Follow All of the Old Testament Laws?
It’s pretty common these days for people to dismiss Christians as inconsistent because “they follow some of the rules in the Bible and...
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Mar 7, 20167 min read
7 Points to Consider When You Preach about Homosexuality
This guest post comes from Brad Hambrick, our Pastor of Counseling. For more, be sure to come to the SJI Forum that Brad is leading on...
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Mar 3, 20167 min read
My Four Biggest Passions as President of the Southern Baptist Convention
For those of you here at the Summit: I’m accepting a nomination for SBC President, which is a volunteer position. The nature of the...
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Feb 15, 20164 min read
The Biggest Questions I Get on Genesis 1 and 2
The opening chapters of Genesis are incredibly rich. (If you haven’t noticed, they’ve been bouncing around my head quite a bit recently....
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Jan 28, 20166 min read
Mark and John: Two Gospels, One Jesus (3 of 3)
Earlier this week, we’ve been considering the question of whether the Jesus depicted in Mark’s Gospel contradicts the Jesus in John’s...
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Jan 26, 20162 min read
Mark v. John: Contradictory or Complementary Gospels? (2 of 3)
Yesterday I (Chris) introduced a common objection to the historicity of Jesus: the accounts of Jesus’ life are so varied in the Gospels...
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Jan 25, 20163 min read
Was Mark’s Jesus Different Than John’s Jesus? (1 of 3)
This is the first of a 3-part series on the supposed contradictions between the Gospels of Mark and John. Pastor J.D. and I (Chris)...
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Jan 20, 20162 min read
Summit’s God-Sized Goals for 2016
Last week, President Obama gave his final State of the Union address. Regardless of what you think of his time in office (or the speech...
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