Jerry Vines Blog
Saturday (5-23) I agreed to allow my name to be added to the Great Commission Resurgence document "with caveats." I did this for two reasons.
First, I want to affirm my trust in the intentions of our president, Dr. Johnny Hunt, and Dr. Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. I join them in a desire that the Southern Baptist Convention have a resurgence of winning people to Christ. As a past president of the Convention, a member of the Peace...
I’m getting a new brand. Yep. At age 71 I’ve decided I need guyliner.
What is guyliner? It is the male version of eyeliner. And, it is the latest rage among some celebrity guys. Adam Lambert, a finalist on American Idol, brought public attention to it.
A recent USA Today article mentioned several famous guys whose eyes have it: Nestor Carbonell. Russell Brand. David Cook. Pete Wentz. I presume they are football stars or UPS drivers.
I can see where...
A few days ago I listened to a message I preached in 1964 (yes, they did have tape recording in the dark ages!). I don’t advise it. Now I know why I developed major voice problems. Remember, I was only 26. And, I was preaching at a place where you had to take your coat off, sweat like a horse, unloose your tie, preach on about two inches of your shirttail and get so hoarse you could hardly talk before it was considered preaching.
I sounded like a machine gun with the...
The story of Miss California, Carrie Prejean, continues.
Her response when the homosexual judge asked her about same-sex marriage is worth remembering . She said, as she quickly contemplated her answer to the question, she asked herself "am I trying to be politically correct, or do I want to be biblically correct? And I think that I want to be biblically correct. All I could think about when I was standing there, answering that question was, 'Carrie, what are your beliefs?'"
I...
