A few weeks ago, while attending the Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, I was heading into an event for Union University when Todd Starnes introduced himself to me. Todd is an anchor and reporter for Fox News who is based out of New York City. Todd grabbed my attention when he told me that he reads my blog. It's
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Alright, somehow I have thoroughly mutilated my March Madness bracket and the Gators are unfortunately playing in the N.I.T. so I don't have much to root for this March. Thankfully Tony Kummer, over at SBCVoices.com, has given me something to enjoy. Tony hosts the annual Blog Madness tournament to see which blogs in Southern Baptist life are the most influential/popular.
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The good folks at Crossway Books are wonderful to send me books from time to time to read and review. As something of a "bookophile" getting free books makes me about as happey as a guy can be! This time they sent me Mark Driscoll's new book, Vintage Church (VC). As someone who is admittedly a fan of much of
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posted by Micah Fries filed under Bible,
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A week ago a sweet lady in my church presented to me a gift that blew me away! She handed me a shoebox and inside was two books. The first was a King James Version of the Bible that was originally published in 1865 by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode. The 2nd book was a book called "The Royal
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I am currently sitting in my hotel room relaxing after a long day here in Indy. Tracy and I made it here last night much quicker than we anticipated and thankfully missed all of the flooding that has covered Indiana just south of Indy.
Today was a busy day, but an enjoyable one. I spent a good bit of this morning
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Tracy
This should probably be my last post before heading to Indianapolis. I'm backed up with work to do and I've got a wedding to perform this weekend so I don't think I'll have time to write anymore. I wanted to write a quick note and mention a couple of things to look for while I'm gone to the convention.
First, I
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Dr. Joel Rainey has written a new book, Planting Churches in the Real World, that is a fantastic find if you are planting a church of thinking of planting a church. What's more, if you are in a traditional church I am convinced that much of the material in the book can be helpful to you as well. Rainey has
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