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Winter 2021 Sandy Creek Foundation Newsletter
Click here to read the Winter 2021 Sandy Creek Foundation newsletter.
Apr 5, 20211 min read
Winter 2021 Sandy Creek Foundation Newsletter
Click here to read the Winter 2021 Sandy Creek Foundation newsletter. Among the headlines in this issue: LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY REVIVES...
Apr 5, 20211 min read
Can Heaven Get Richer?
That which is perfect, by the nature of the case, cannot become more perfect. Consequently, there is nothing that we can add to heaven to...
Apr 1, 20213 min read
Is Chuck Kelley a Prophet?
Months have passed since retired New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president Chuck Kelley began asking publicly the audacious and...
Mar 25, 20213 min read
Luther Redivivus
To know German Lutheran pastor Olaf Latzel is the closest that one in this post-modern era can come to knowing Martin Luther (1483-1546),...
Mar 18, 20213 min read
Bad News – Good News
Breaking News – I have no bad news to share today. The good news, however, is remarkable. This week I responded to the invitation of Dr....
Mar 11, 20213 min read
You Are the Lord’s Daisho
The bride and the groom stood stolidly before the preacher as the parson spoke to the two of them and to the congregation about the...
Mar 4, 20213 min read
Do You Remember Your Baptism?
The winter of 1961 was unusually frigid in northwest Texas. But this was a happy Sunday at Sardis Baptist Church, located not far from...
Feb 25, 20213 min read
Fitahiana to the Bush
Dr. T.A. Patterson, my noble father, understood his responsibility to teach his son Paige to share Christ. I went with Dad first at age...
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Paul Would Never Vote for Nero
December 15, A.D. 37 marks the entry into this world of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. Later in life, Nero, as he became known, was not the...
Feb 12, 20213 min read
I Do Not Want to Go to Heaven
There is a kind of man that the “church crowd” tends hardly to notice and certainly not to visit often. He is a hunter, a fisherman – an...
Feb 4, 20213 min read
Why Don’t Men Sing? (Part 5)
The final point of this series brings these principles to consider. 21.The frequently debated issue between contemporary praise songs and...
Jan 29, 20213 min read
Why Don’t Men Sing? (Part 4)
So, your men will not sing. Is there a possibility that the entire music experience has been prepared in a way that discourages men from...
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Why Don’t Men Sing? (Part 3)
About four weeks ago, I posted a blog entitled How Many Members Played a Part in David’s Orchestra? This blog emphasized the large number...
Jan 14, 20213 min read
Why Don’t Men Sing? (Part 2)
The leader of congregational music occupies a critically important role in the worship of God’s people. Most men look for leadership whom...
Jan 7, 20213 min read
Why Don’t Men Sing?
There are wonderful exceptions. But anyone who attends worship regularly at an evangelical church knows this premise is true. For the...
Dec 31, 20203 min read
Interruption – The Music of Christmas
One of my unforgettable moments happened a few years ago at Christmas. Do you remember? On Saturday, October 30, 2010, thousands of...
Dec 25, 20203 min read
Abimelech and the Woman Who Dropped a Rock
Judges 9 adumbrates the 3000-year-old story of Abimelech who is as contemporary as the morning news. When Gideon prevails over the...
Dec 18, 20203 min read
Ahaz and the Sufficiency of God’s Word
The discussion among some evangelicals has developed from questions about the inerrancy of the Scriptures to deliberation concerning the...
Dec 11, 20203 min read
How Large was David’s Orchestra?
Music in the contemporary church proceeds with little attention to anything that might be learned from the Bible. Consequently, today’s...
Dec 4, 20203 min read
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