The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina recently sponsored an Essential Church Conference at Apex Baptist Church. The speakers included Thom Rainer, Sam Rainer, and Darryl Craft. The Rainers are co-authors of the popular book Essential Church: Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts (B&H, 2008). Craft is the senior pastor of the Green Street Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina. The speakers and attendees had much to say about a Great Commission Resurgence in the SBC. … [Read More]
Podcast with Tullian Tchividjian
The latest InSight Podcast of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is an interview with Tullian Tchividjian, founding pastor of New City Church near Fort Lauderdale and the newly elected pastor of the historic Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. Tchividjian is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different (Multnomah, 2009). Oh, and if you didn’t already know, he is also Billy Graham’s grandson.
Recommended Links and Forthcoming Posts at BtT
There are a number of interesting articles that have appeared on the web in the past few days. I thought I would point out a handful of them.
In case you missed it, new BtT contributor J. D. Greear blogged here yesterday about his views on Calvinism.
My fellow SEBTS church historian Steve McKinion weighs in on “Third Generation Conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention” at Baptist 21. This is the first post in a three-part series.
Tom Ascol … [Read More]
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Thomas Meredith and the Early Biblical Recorder: Two Articles
This year marks the 175th anniversary of Baptist periodicals published for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC). Thomas Meredith (1795-1850) was one of the patriarchs of North Carolina Baptists. He pastored two churches in eastern North Carolina, helped establish the state convention in 1830, and co-founded Wake Forest College (now University) in 1834. Meredith College in Raleigh is named in his honor.
In 1833 Meredith began publishing the Baptist Interpreter, which a year later … [Read More]
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The Politics of Jesus
Last Thursday and Friday, David Nelson and I were among the six speakers at a conference titled The Politics of Jesus: Timeless Answers for Today’s Questions. The conference was hosted by the Council on Public Affairs of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Owen Strachan of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School live-blogged the event. He has compiled his posts, including my manuscript and Nelson’s notes, here. You may … [Read More]
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Podcast with Between the Times
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina recently conducted an Insight Podcast with the contributors to Between the Times. You can read about the podcast here. To listen to the podcast, check out the Insight website. You will also find a number of other helpful podcasts available at Insight’s website. Those of us at Between the Times are grateful to the BSCNC for the opportunity to participate in the podcast.
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Assisting Gospel-Driven Churches: A Reminder to Baptist Bureaucrats, Part 2
This is the second post in a two-part article titled “Assisting Gospel-Driven Churches: A Reminder to Baptist Bureaucrats.” The sermon was preached in the weekly chapel service of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina on September 8, 2008. I want to thank the executive leadership of the BSCNC for the invitation to preach and their blessing in publishing the sermon manuscript here at Between the Times. The earlier post can be read here.
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Assisting Gospel-Driven Churches: A Reminder to Baptist Bureaucrats, Part 1
Note: The following sermon was preached in the weekly chapel service of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina on September 8, 2008. I want to thank the executive leadership of the BSCNC for the invitation to preach and their blessing in publishing the sermon manuscript here at Between the Times. The sermon will be published in two parts.
Assisting Gospel-Driven Churches: A Reminder to Baptist Bureaucrats
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
At the turn of the 20th century, the … [Read More]
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