From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Back in the 1950’s the Southern Baptist Convention was on the cutting edge of church growth techniques. We had a program that married evangelism and discipleship resulting in some of the largest churches in the history of the world (up to that point anyway). The method was Sunday School Growth.
Years ago the Southern Baptist Convention [...]

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It looks like the latest Google PageRank update has blessed our site with a promotion. We’ve been a PageRank 4 for the last 9 months.
Each move up is exponential, so hitting a PageRank 5 felt almost like validation. Of course, the actual effect of this statistic is dubious with all the advances Google has made [...]

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My old school Boyce College is doing a camp for High School and College students this summer titled Apologetics University. You can check it out on their website.
Registration closes on June 10th. Apologetics University is a mini camp experience for students who “aren’t afraid to think” sponsored by Boyce College and TeenPact. This [...]

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Using Mentors in Seminary

by Tony Kummer on April 28, 2008

Do you have a mentor? I’ve always envied guys who talk about their ministry mentors. There have been a few pastors and Christian friends that have played this role in my life, but I always wished it could have been more consistent.
The one exception was a guy named Jason. After I graduated Boyce [...]

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Podcast With Tom Ascol

by Tony Kummer on April 28, 2008

A few weeks back, I met with Tom Ascol while he was in Louisville for T4G and recorded this Mp3 interview. It’s a fast paced conversation (18 minutes) dealing with a host of pastoral and church issues including:

What is the Gospel?
What encourages you about the reformed resurgence in the SBC?
What advice do you give to [...]

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All the links that point to your content will not go away, so some clever spammer will re-create your blog (yes even on blogger and wordpress) and all the old links will now point to the spammer’s new blog with the identical address as your deleted blog!
Which is very, very bad. I don’t want links [...]

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Denominational Idolatry?

by Tony Kummer on April 27, 2008

Nathan Finn linked to this old school Southern Baptist sermon:
In 1859, Charles Mallary preached a sermon before the Georgia Baptist Convention titled “Denominational Idolatry Reproved.”

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