Yep. Or in other words, Exodus 19 comes before Exodus 20.

“Anyone who might seek assurance, at every moment, that he is acting out of reason, not out of passion and humour, would miss the time to act, would spend his life anatomizing his heart and would never come to the end of what he was looking for.” François Fénelon #wisdom

As I said elsewhere on this bird site, the recent proposal to add the Creed to the BFM was understandably met with procedural concerns because, well, SBC. That said, the baptism clause shouldn't be the issue. Luke Stamps has a great piece here: centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2024/6/20…

If you're hot, they're hot. Bring them inside.

"For a preacher-leader, vision is captured and cast by expounding God's great purposes for his church, revealed in the Scriptures, and applying them to a particular people in the particular place and period Christ has sent him to serve." John Currie #leadership

So let me get this straight… Dudes going to seminary, many training to be “shepherds”, crying because they want a male-only space. Just wait until I tell you about the composition of sheep pens... What are you training for again?

Here is an excellent article by Luke Stamps on the baptism clause of the Nicene Creed—its biblical, historical, and Baptist basis. “One Baptism for the Remission of Sins”: Baptists and the Baptism Clause Center For Baptist Renewal ⁦The Center for Baptist Renewal centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2024/6/20…

“Conviction without character destroys lives, and, in the long-term, reveals itself to have been something other than conviction all along. Sometimes, a battle for the Bible reveals itself to be a battle against the Bible.”

"If preaching does not define and direct a church's purpose, something else will." John Currie #preaching #leadership

If I win, I’m giving this book to my wife, who has loved reading things by and about Elisabeth Elliot.

“To tear down, to wreck, requires little either of heart or brains.” Clovis G. Chappell

“It is well known that Christ consistently used the expression "follower." He never asks for admirers, worshippers, or adherents. No, he calls disciples. It is not adherents of a teaching but followers of a life Christ is looking for.” Søren Kierkegaard #discipleship

“Do not be overly-hasty, but learn from God, in peace and silence, what it is He wishes you to do, and then, in all simplicity, do it.” François Fénelon

“Oh, how much better are we sustained by love than by fear! Fear enslaves, constrains, and troubles us; but love persuades, consoles, animates us; possesses our whole souls, and makes us desire goodness for its own sake.” François Fénelon #discipleship

"Every epistemology becomes an ethic. The shape of our knowledge becomes the shape of our living; the relation of the knower to the known becomes the relation of the living self to the larger world." Parker J. Palmer #wisdom

“Oh my God, preserve me from the fatal slavery that men madly call liberty. With Thee alone is freedom. It is Thy truth that makes us free. To serve Thee is true dominion.” François Fénelon #independenceday #july4th

“Virtue is the attempt to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.” Iris Murdoch

“What is the one big need of every one of us? It is just this: a clear and satisfying vision of God.” Clovis G. Chappell #theology

“Blessed is the preacher that can so speak as to make his hearers look past him into the Face that is ‘altogether lovely and the fairest of ten thousand.’” Clovis G. Chappell #preaching #theology

“Put your trust, not in your resolutions, or your own strength, but in the goodness of God, who has loved you when you thought not of Him, and before you could love Him.” François Fénelon #discipleship