If you had asked me fifteen years ago, I would have said that education courses make me go to sleep faster than a hamster swimming in a bucket of Thorazine. But that was fifteen years ago, and I hadn’t yet met Ken Coley, Larry Purcell, Gary Bredfeldt, Jim Porowski, and Greg Lawson who are professors of Education and Leadership at Southeastern. In fact, it was an encounter with Ken Coley that first made me aware … [Read More]
The Gospel and Baptist Identity Series
Over at my personal blog, Christian Thought & Tradition, I recently concluded a nine-part series titled The Gospel and Baptist Identity. In that series, I attempted to offer a constructive proposal about what I think is a healthy way to articulate Baptist identity in the early years of the twenty-first century. I received some helpful feedback, for which I’m very thankful. This is an expansion of what I’ve been teaching my Southeastern Seminary students for … [Read More]
Christian Leadership Essentials: A Recommendation
Of the writing of leadership books there is no end. Fortunately, some of them are quite useful for pastors and other Christian leaders, especially when they are uniquely focused on ministry-related leadership. One particularly helpful example is Christian Leadership Essentials: A Handbook for Managing Christian Organizations (B&H Academic), edited by Union University President David Dockery.
Christian Leadership Essentials includes a number of helpful essays that address such topics as vision development and communication, the nuts-and-bolts of management, … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study Theology at Southeastern
“Knowing and loving God. This is the greatest thing bar none…. It is the work of theologians—and of all believers as they do theology—to serve God by discerning what is true about the most crucial issues of life. The task is to learn of God. The privilege is to love God passionately with the mind.” –David Clark
“Theology is the science which derives the knowledge of God from His revelation, which studies and thinks into it … [Read More]
Amnesia, Assassins, and What We Can’t Not Know
Leah and I recently watched the thriller Unknown. The movie’s premise is clever, if not very original. Professor Martin Campbell, played by Liam Neeson, awakens in a Berlin hospital with a case of partial amnesia following a terrible automobile accident. He soon learns that his wife doesn’t appear to recognize him and that another man has assumed his identity. To make matters worse, secret agents are trying to kill Campbell. After a series of plot twists, … [Read More]
Book Notice: “The World and The Word: An Introduction to the Old Testament”
You can no longer say that you were unaware: noted Old Testament scholar and SEBTS professor Mark F. Rooker is co-author (with Eugene H. Merrill and Michael A. Grisanti) of the newly released Old Testament intro text, The World and The Word: An Introduction to the Old Testament (B&H). Both those steeped in Old Testament study and those studying its treasures in-depth for the first time will benefit from this work.
The World and the Word … [Read More]
The Pursuit of More: An Addictions Conference
We at BtT invite you to join Dr. Akin, several SEBTS faculty members and area pastors for “The Pursuit of More,” an addictions conference sponsored by Converting Hearts Ministries. The conference will be held Friday, September 16th (6-9 p.m.) and Saturday, September 17th (9-11:30 p.m.) at Open Door Baptist Church in Raleigh.
“Pursuit of More” features Danny Akin, Stephen Davey, Sam Williams, Dwayne Millioni, Robert Jones, Brad Hambrick, and others, who will address the concept of … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study Philosophy at Southeastern
It has been said that the title of philosopher is easily earned by anyone with a credibly furrowed brow who speaks, writes, and otherwise publicly bloviates about the big, big questions. It has also been said that philosophy departments are full of pervicacious malaperts who overestimate their own brilliance, gazing condescendingly on the ignorant masses who believe in such fantasies as the virgin birth and the resurrection.
Not so at Southeastern, where our faculty are not … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study Christian Ethics at Southeastern
Perhaps one is not overstating the case to say that Christian Ethics is the academic discipline that finds itself on the frontlines of the battle more than any other in the 21st century? Questions about abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, and quality of life pervade the medical field. Debates about justice dominate the political realm. Issues such as global warming and environmental pollution are at the heart of nearly every fracas in the economic realm. … [Read More]
