Cold, wet winds swept me into this week filled with meetings, lessons, and ice skating on four wheels through the streets of Dallas. Early Monday morning my wife and I caught a “company jet” courtesy of Southwest Airlines and made our way to Love Field. We were on our way to participate in the Engage [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 28, 2009
Center for Informed Faith
Christmas came early to the Baptist building in Dallas. Sunday afternoon word began to spread across the Texas plains announcing the Dr. Jim Denison had resign as pastor of the prestigious Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas to assume the role as theologian in residence and director of the Center for Informed Faith housed in [...]
January 24, 2009
BGCT Presidential Journal 3
On the BGCT presidential front I had extremely busy week at my “day job” as pastor of FBC Canyon, and a relatively slow week on the convention front. Like history has taught over and over again fighting on two fronts for change can be very difficult and taxing. One of the greatest challenges I have [...]
January 21, 2009
Welcome Mr. President
On January 20th, a bitterly cold blustery day in Washington D.C., one of the miracles of the modern world took place amidst fanfare and celebration but no bloodshed and violence. The mantle of leadership of the greatest most powerful nation in the world was passed from one man to his successor surrounding by a cheering [...]
January 17, 2009
BGCT Presidential Journal 2
I am writing this note from Dallas after a busy couple of days of working with Carolyn Strickland and Bob Broyles. This has been a very productive week, and I am proud of the work we did together.
One of the key roles we have as officers of the Baptist General Convention of Texas is the [...]
January 17, 2009
Enough to Change the World
Last week I had a brief but very insightful conversation with Bob Roberts, pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, Texas. Bob and I have been friends for over twenty years. Our friendship dates back to when Bob started Northwood, and I was a church planter in Flower Mound. Starting a new church was one of [...]
January 10, 2009
BGCT Presidential Journal 1
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As a forum for dialogue and communication, I am planning to write a BGCT Presidential Journal each week between now and the 2009 BGCT Convention in Houston. I will use these journal entries to share about some of my activities of the week, and observations.
This week I spent two days in Dallas handling convention matters. [...]
January 2, 2009
One Day at a Time
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.—Jesus (Matthew 6:34 NIV)
From the very first moments of this New Year, the Lord began to teach me the value and significance of every day. As I get older, and my youth fades in the rear [...]
