Tag: Billy Graham
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JOY QUOTES
Last Sunday, the 3rd Sunday of Advent, I preached a sermon I called “A Symposium on Joy” which was really just a series of loosely connected quotations. If you want the sermon, you’ll have to go listen to the podcast. Here are the quotations, without comment. The joy which the Spirit brings to our lives…
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NORTHWEST BAPTIST CONVENTION: THE PDX EDITION
Please forgive that I have not posted all week, but I just returned from the three day extravaganza known as the Annual Meeting of Northwest Baptists. This year our meeting was in Portland at the Embassy Suites near the Airport. More on that later. For those who might not know, the word “convention” is not…
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BOOK REVIEW: A LOVER’S QUARREL WITH THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
Earlier this week I tweeted (yeah, I Twitter; @jamiedgreening) that I was reading the book A Lover’s Quarrel with the Evangelical Church by Warren Cole Smith. Almost immediately a pastor friend of mine asked me to write a review of it when I was finished. Smith’s premise can best be summarized from a brief sentence…