Jerry Vines Blog
Please allow me a point of personal privilege.
Jonathan Falwell sent dad a picture via email that he labeled his three heroes.
Well, it appears Jonathan and I have exact tastes in heroes:
When I was a young pastor I moved a lot. In fact, I averaged 16 months at each of my first 4 churches! The word on me was, “Vines is a fair preacher, but he doesn’t stay anywhere very long.” Then I went to First Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida and stayed almost 24 years. I just said, “I hadn’t got where I was going yet!”
Well, I’m on the move again.
For the last 4 years I have preached 12 Sunday nights a year at First Baptist...
I was elected president of the SBC in 1988. Some half-jokingly said I was the first independent Baptist in history elected president! Actually, all my roots are in Southern Baptist life. I was saved, called to preach, educated, and served in only Southern Baptist churches.
In the earlier years several of us were so concerned about liberalism in the SBC we thought we might indeed become independents. Adrian Rogers and I talked about it frequently. Of course, you know the...
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In the future we will be adding videos to this channel as well as this blog.
This first video is a recent discussion between Jerry Vines and Charles Stanley. They are...
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Many of us are anxiously awaiting the opening of college football season. I read a number of magazines, keep up with recruiting, look forward to reading articles about practice and then—they tee it up!
It is obvious the center of attention for the coming season will be Florida quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow. He seems to be on the cover of every magazine, the subject of every article and the buzz on every blog. So, I’m preparing a “Tebow...
It has taken me a few weeks to get to this wrap-up of the SBC annual meeting. I'm finishing up some messages for the "Left" series I'm doing at First Baptist Woodstock, editing some Sunday School lessons in our new Vines By the Book curriculum, and trying to get ready to leave for Alaska. So, I'm a busy guy.
As I look back at the annual meeting I think it may well go down as the...
For over thirty years I read at least one sermon by Charles Spurgeon every week.
What a preacher!
We Baptists can justly be proud he wore the name Baptist unashamedly. His remarkable ministry, starting at a very early age, is well known.
One of my favorite books is his "Lectures To My Students." In it he makes reference to a statement by King David recorded in II Samuel 10:5: "Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return." He rightly...
So croons country singer, Ronnie Milsap.
In many ways spiritually I'm a child of the fifties. I am fully prepared for a number of reminders at the SBC that we "can't go back to the fifties." I'm sure we can't. Time moves forward, not backward. The methodologies of doing church, like technology, have moved far past those years.
But, it wasn't all bad.
If you have never listened to an automobile 8-track, you ain't lived. But, do we ever have the technology to do...
