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The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will be closed today due to inclement weather.

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Announcements

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Gheens Lectures with Hunter Baker

Hunter Baker, associate provost at Houston Baptist University, will deliver the Spring 2010 Gheens Lectures: “The System Has a Soul: Lectures on Christianity and Secularism” on Feb. 16-17. Baker has worked for The Rutherford Institute and Prison Fellowship Ministries and is the author of “The End of Secularism” (Crossway, 2009). Here is the schedule for Baker’s lectures:

Tuesday, Feb. 16

  • 1 p.m., lecture 1, Heritage Hall: “Freedom, Democracy, and Secularism?”
  • 2:30 pm, lecture 2, Heritage Hall: “Decline, Fall, and the Options”

Wednesday, Feb. 17

  • 10 a.m., lecture 3, Heritage Hall: “Secularism, Church, and Society”
BibleWorks discount at LifeWay

The LifeWay Campus Store is currently taking orders for a special discount for students on BibleWorks 8. Students who take advantage of this offer will save $99 on BibleWorks. The deadline for placing orders is Feb. 27 and a minimum of 10 students must sign up. Students will need to present their student ID when signing up. Please see store associates for details or call 897-4506.

Vermont church planting

On Friday, March 4, Terry Dorsett, director of the Green Mountain Baptist Association in Vermont, will be on campus and available to meet with students. If you are interested in meeting with Dorsett to learn more about ministry and church planting opportunities in Vermont, contact the Church Planting Center at churchplanting@sbts.edu or 502-897-4498.

Clyde T. Francisco Preaching Award

Applications for the Clyde T. Francisco Preaching Award are now available. This award is for masters-level students called to pastor.  This prestigious award gives the recipient $1,000 and the honor of preaching in the final chapel service of the Spring 2010 semester. Applications are due by Feb. 24. (more…)

2010 mission trip opportunities

Mission trip opportunities are available in 2010 for Southern Seminary students and their spouses in South and Central Asia, Canada, Brazil, West Africa, Utah and Iowa. Students may earn up to five academic credits (Applied Ministry and a missions elective) while serving on a mission trip with the Great Commission Center. Tuition scholarships are available. The deadline to apply is Feb. 12, 2010. Here are the details on the various trips: (more…)


Blogs

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Tebow Not the First
by Denny BurkFeb 5

I will never forget the 1986 Superbowl Championship when Phil Simms’ New York Giants defeated John Elway’s Denver Broncos. I was as proud as punch because my Dad had coached one of the Giants’ players when he was in high school—middle linebacker Gary Reasons.

NewsNote: Masculinity in a Can, Fight Club at Church, and the Crisis of Manhood
by R. Albert Mohler Jr.Feb 5

You do not have to look far to find evidence of the fact that males are in trouble in these confused and confusing times. On the university campuses, women undergraduate students outnumber young men by a clear margin — 60% to 40%.

Is it sin if it’s unintentional?
by Denny BurkFeb 4

My daily Bible reading plan had me in Leviticus 4 and 5 yesterday and got me to thinking about the Bible’s teaching on unintentional sin. The Bible makes a distinction between sins committed intentionally and those that are unintentional.

Why I Decaffeinated
by Russell D. MooreFeb 3

This time two weeks ago, if I had dropped dead, my body would have twitched for 72 hours before I could’ve been embalmed. Last week I noted over on Twitter that I felt two golden tablets away from Mormonism. It’s not because I’m aspiring to rule my own planet or because I’ve added the Osmonds to my iPod. It’s because I’m doing what I never thought I’d do. I’m withdrawing from caffeine.


History Highlight

John A. Broadus at Yale

In 1889, Yale University invited John A. Broadus to present the distinguished Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching. On January 10 of that year, he delivered the first in a series of eight lectures on “Preaching and the Ministerial Life.” Over the course of the following three weeks, his lectures were received by large and attentive audiences. One newspaper reported that,

“Men of considerable reputation have come and gone without their presence being known to any but the few immediately concerned. Such has not been the case with the visit of Dr. Broadus and the delivery of his lectures. He has made marked impression on the life and thought of the University, outside of the Divinity School, to which he has been specifically lecturing. Every available seat in Marquand chapel not reserved for students, has been occupied each day, considerably before the hour for the lecture, and after all available spaces had been filled by chairs many have crowded into the corners left and listened standing.” [1]

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Current Impact

World Journalism Institute

Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler, Jr., has been appointed to the Francis Schaeffer Chair of Cultural Apologetics at the World Journalism Institute at The King’s College in New York City.

As the holder of the Francis Schaeffer chair, Mohler will give a series of lectures to the World Journalism Institute students at its multi-week course on convergence journalism in May in New York. This will be the second series of lectures by Dr. Mohler to WJI students. Prior to being elected president of Southern Seminary in 1993, Mohler served as editor for The Christian Index, the Baptist newspaper of Georgia.

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