True story: My last job before moving home was at the LifeWay store in the Turkey Creek shopping center at West Knoxville (Farrugut). At one point when I was working there I saw a book on the shelf called Read,Think,Pray,Live by Tony Jones of Emergent fame. My friend Jared had alerted me to this guy [...]

Hi. My name is Jeff and I’m an NBA fan. There. I got that off my chest and it wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it would be. I cut my teeth on the Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 90’s (I don’t care what you say – I think the earlier teams featuring Horace [...]

If it turns out that the Anti-Christ isn’t a human being or oppressive world governments then I think we should start looking at the NCAA with suspicious eyes. When it comes to all-world level nastiness they take the cake. For your consideration: Exhibit A: The NCAA not only prevented Boise State’s running back Ian Johnson [...]

I’m trying to convince my friend Chase (of former Theologica Viatorum blog fame) to become a contributor here. In the meantime, let me pass along a link he sent me recently that might be of benefit.. Covenant Presbyterian Church of Abilene, TX From Chase: This website has a lot of great resources for Meredith Kline, [...]

At church we’re in the process of going through confessions looking for one to adopt as our congregation’s expression of faith. We’re currently looking at the The New Hampshire Baptist Confession of 1833 and, ironically enough, on the eve of Thanksgiving came upon the article in the confession which describes the doctrine I’m most thankful [...]

Danny Chisholm @ Signal Mountain Musings (HT: The Refugee Baptist) has written on the decision of the TBC to affirm the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message in a provocatively titled post – Bible not good enough for Tennessee Baptist Convention. One would think from the title alone that great apostasy has struck the denomination. However, [...]

This post might be a bit muddled (moreso than normal) because my late arrival home from Memphis left me a sleep-deprived state. I thought I ought to compose a final set of thoughts regarding this year’s TBC in the hope that they might communicate the atmosphere of the Convention and the intention behind the actions. [...]

Sorry for the late update. The last session ran long then there was a 4 hour trip home followed by catching up with my wife before trying to get in bed with enough time left to make it to work this morning. This will be another quick post so please again forgive any typos. Picking [...]

Quick update in a lull (I’m in the time frame following the final time stamp.) Sorry for any typos. 2:20pm – Review of the changes to the budget proposed by the alternative budget motion. The gentleman (I’m not sure what his name was) who introduced the discussion was a winsome presenter. The gentlemen who followed [...]

I made my first mistake of the convention today. I slept through the report from Carson-Newman – a report I really wanted to hear. My bad. The 10:50am miscellaneous business session produced only a question about a particular committee appointment which was referred to the time in which the committee will be fielding questions. I’m [...]