From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Why Twitter?

by Tony Kummer on April 26, 2008

Some of you guys are on Twitter and several who have not have been asking me about what it. Here is an article that talks about it from an internet marketing angle.
If you Twitter, my profile is TonyKummer
Some other Southern students and alumni are on there too …

Alex L.
Joe Thorn
Steve McCoy

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After nearly a year, I’m finally bringing on advertisers for Said at Southern. You can find out more on the new sponsors information page. I’m planning to keep it minimal, but I do hope to sell out the available spots. I feel like the prices are about half of what I could make with AdSense. [...]

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Clyde T. Francisco (1916-1981) was a professor of Old Testament interpretation at Southern Seminary. He died of a massive heart attack while preaching in Helen, GA.
Ken Schmidt, the 2008 Clyde T. Francisco Award recipient preached the chapel message today in Alumni Chapel from Matthew 18:21-35. The main thrust of his sermon was the [...]

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Les Puryear is making the videos available free online:
We’re slowly getting the conference videos online at the Small Church Leadership Conference website . Right now, we have mine, Brad Waggoner’s, and Alvin Reid’s videos available for viewing. We’ll be adding new videos everyday so keep checking back until we have them all online. Thanks for [...]

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Earlier this week, Trevin had the chance to interview NT Wright about his book on Heaven “Surprised By Hope.” Here are links to the questions he asked.
1. On Being Compared to C.S. Lewis
2. On Eschatology Leading to Action
3. On Mark Dever’s critique of Wright’s notion of a “public gospel”
4. On Avoiding the Errors of the [...]

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I was not sure what to expect when David Brumbelow sent me a copy of his book The Wit and Wisdom of Pastor Joe Brumbelow. What I discovered was a special little volume that has been a real encouragement to me.
The book is about a son sharing his late father’s life with the world.
It contains [...]

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Baptist bloggers are burning up their laptops this afternoon with the latest buzz out of Nashville. Basically, the Annual Church Profile numbers (our convention’s statistical tool) have been crunched for 2007 and and the results are not so great.
The story actually began to break yesterday. Frank Page wrote about a new evangelistic initiatives, which in [...]

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