Last Sunday's sermon focused on the importance of having a clear conscience before God, and discussed how to guard your conscience. In this sermon excerpt from 1981, John Piper helpfully…
You’re in an African country on a short-term mission trip, interacting with a group of poor persons. One of them becomes sick, and needs $8 to buy penicillin. Should you…
How do you react when others sin?
This week we once again have been barraged with revelations of the sexual sins of a major public figure, Mark Sanford, the governor of…
For the last several months, Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been advocating a "Great Commission Resurgence" in the Southern Baptist Convention. In his chapel address on April 16th (audio), Dr Akin laid out twelve axioms required for such a resurgence. Since then, SBC President Johnny Hunt has embraced this message, and modified the axioms somewhat, reducing them to ten, as available here.
In many ways, I am impressed with the Great Commission Resurgence document, and believe the SBC should move in the direction it lays out. Here are some of the axioms that clearly resonate with our theology, vision, and values:
1: We call upon all Southern Baptists to submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ in all things at the personal, local church, and denominational levels.
2: We call upon all Southern Baptists to make the gospel of Jesus Christ central in our lives, our churches, and our convention ministries.
Here are some favorite Ralph Winter quotes, to supplement this post on his life well-lived:
Jesus, today, might have put it, “Seek first the Kingdom of God and your career will…
(For a version of this devotion that is easier to print, see this link).
Ralph Winter died on Wednesday night, at the age of 84. I am confident that the Lord…