Jerry Vines Blog
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...
In the interest of full disclosure, I must make a few confessions. I have actually presided over some boring SBC meeting sessions (although I presided over some humdingers as well!).
I have sat through a lot of boring meetings. I have dodged some boring ones and attended the "real convention" (the bookstore exhibit). I have even tried to liven up some
