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Summary of the Southern Baptist Founders Conference Southwest 2009

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 669 Comments

Here is a summary of the messages from the SBFC-SW 2009, as well as a collection of photos from the conference and a video I took of the attendees singing “Be Thou My Vision”.

“Devotional Psalm (Psalm 130)” – Pastor Jeff Young

“Preaching Christ from the Old Testament” – Pastor Fred Malone

“Preaching Christ from the New Testament” – Pastor Tom Ascol

“Redemptive-Historical Preaching: Pros and Cons” – Pastor Steve Garrick

“Summary of Founders Ministries” – Pastor Tom Ascol

“The Lost Element of Theology in Preaching” – Pastor Fred Malone

“Q&A Session (Moderated by Larry Vincent)” – Pastor Earl Blackburn, Pastor Tom Ascol, Pastor Steve Garrick and Pastor Fred Malone

“A Critique of Contemporary Models of Preaching” – Pastor Tom Ascol

“Preaching Christ to the Christian” – Pastor Fred Malone

“Preaching Christ to the Natural Man” – Pastor Tom Ascol

“Unction in Preaching” – preached by Pastor Earl Blackburn

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#SBFCSW “Unction in Preaching”, Pastor Earl Blackburn

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 670 Comments

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#SBFCSW “Preaching Christ to the Natural Man”, Pastor Tom Ascol

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 517 Comments

Sermon Poetry – “Lord, Help Me”
Sermon Title – “Preaching Christ to the Natural Man”
Preacher – Dr. Tom Ascol

We live in a time where there’s gods all about
We’re proud of our pluralist ways
The people don’t know of the God of the Word
Ignoring the Ancient of Days

Lord help me when walking in markets and ways
When working among fellow men
Lord help me to preach Jesus Christ to the lost
To sinners, the lost and the damned

Lord help me be faithful to rightly engage
The culture in which I am pleased
To study and know it and judge it by truth
Lord help and show me Your Grace

Lord help me remember the sin of my heart
The sin that enslaves these around
Lord help me to love You and love neighbors too
A sinner was lost, now I’m found

In me light a fire that burns for Your Name
Your honor and glory proclaim
In culture around me, your honor to seek
Proclaiming Your glorious fame

Lord help me to study Your Scripture of Truth
And study the culture around
Respecting the sinner and loving the lost
In Christ, make the lost sinner found

And finally, Father, Your Truth will I tell
I haven’t the strength on my own
Please make me committed, Your glory to seek
Save sinners in Jesus the Son

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#SBFCSW “Preaching Christ to the Christian”, Pastor Fred Malone

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 568 Comments

Sermon Poetry – “Complete what You’ve Begun”
Sermon Title – “Preaching Christ to the Christian”
Preacher – Pastor Fred Malone

Although I’m saved I need the message of my Gospel King
The Revelation Fair and Sweet that Christ has died for me
I need to hear of Law and Sin and how I’ve been redeemed
I need to hear of Jesus Christ, the one who made me free

A slave was I, a rebel dead, I hated Good and Light
I railed against the Holy Law, its message did I fight
I felt I was a moral one, I had no need of Christ
I fought against His Cross of Love, I fought with all my might

But thank the Lord that He is strong, He won against my sin
His Holy Word broke through the haze, my heart did Jesus win
‘Twas Grace that saved a wretch like me, a rebel I had been
That Father chose, my Savior died, the Spirit lives within

So as I live, I need to have the Gospel preached to me
For I forget the Grace of Christ, the blood that washed me clean
The Law is kept by Christ alone, Redemption making free
The sinner’s heart, I look to Christ who died upon the Tree

The things I long to do I don’t, I do the things I hate
I long for good (engaging sin), to stay the Way called Straight
Oh who can save this wretched man, I thank the Father Great
For sending Christ to live and die, in Christ my heart is stayed

This road of life is long and heard, alone we all would fail
We all would walk the crooked way, in journeying to Hell
But thanks to God, we’re kept in Christ, His mercy makes us well
He gives us faith to walk the way, to gates wherein we’ll dwell

Oh Savior Sweet, Kind Jesus Fair! I come a man undone!
I have no strength within my frame, my weakened soul you’ve won
Lord, give me strength to walk the way you’ve chosen for this son
To love my neighbor, loving God, complete what you’ve begun

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#SBFCSW “A Critique of Contemporary Models of Preaching”, Pastor Tom Ascol

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 504 Comments



Sermon Poetry – “Lord Keep Me from Deficiency”
Preacher – Pastor Tom Ascol

Lord keep me from deficiency
Help me to preach theology
To tell of you, my Father Sweet
My kind and sovereign King

Lord keep me from deficiency
From apastoral mockery
In loving all your children sweet
And shepherding Your Flock

Lord keep me from deficiency
And help me in expositing
To preach Your Truth with clarity
A herald of Your Word

Lord keep me from deficiency
So sinners might your glory see
In Christ the Light our hearts are free
In Christ our souls are saved

Lord keep me from deficiency
With praying, reading, listening
To know Your Word, to know Your sheep
So I can preach the Word

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#SBFCSW Q&A (Moderated by Larry Vincent), Earl Blackburn, Tom Ascol, Steve Garrick, and Fred Malone

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 608 Comments

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#SBFCSW “The Lost Element of Theology in Preaching”, Dr. Fred Malone

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 72 Comments

Sermon Poetry – “We’re Preaching the Scriptures”
Preacher – Fred Malone

The preaching of God is stupidity to all the world and the people therein
A message proclaimed to a people in need, to a people all rotting in sin
It’s Grace of our God that He’s given to us all a message by which we are saved
We’re preaching our Savior, we’re preaching a Cross, we’re preaching the study of God

We’re preaching the whole of the Scriptures to sinners, the counsel of God as revealed
We’re teaching of Jesus, our Crucified Savior, the Son who the Father has sent
We’re preaching the Gospel, that Good Revelation, so sinners might glory in Christ
We’re preaching the Gospel, that Kind Revelation, so Christians might comfort in Christ

We’re sinners forgiven, our sins washed by Jesus, we’re living to glorify Him
We’re telling a message to worshipping sinners, that outside of Christ they are lost
But thanks to the Father, our Crucified Savior was sent to so that sinners might live
This news we are preaching, through all of the Scriptures, theology of God above

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#SBFCSW Summary of Founders Ministries, Dr. Tom Ascol

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 542 Comments

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#SBFCSW “Redemptive-Historical Preaching: Pros and Cons”, Pastor Steve Garrick

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 513 Comments

A Proposed Form of Preaching

1.)  Preach Meaning of the Text

2.)  Summarize Theological Core Idea

3.)  Expound and Prove this Idea

  1. Via analogy of Scripture
  2. Show how this idea fits with the character of God, salvation, redemption, etc.
  3. This allows our hearers to see how this passage and its applications stem from your salvation

4.)  Apply this idea considering your hearer’s spiritual state (among other criteria)

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#SWBCSW Photographs

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 518 Comments

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#SBFCSW “Preaching Christ from the New Testament”, Dr. Tom Ascol

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 28 Comments

Sermon Poetry – “Salvation’s Found Alone in Christ”
Preacher – Dr. Tom Ascol

Come look what God has done in Christ
He sent His Son to live and die
He died for us, so you and I,
Can praise His Holy Name

Salvation’s found alone in Christ
The Bleeding Savior from on High
Be covered by His sacrifice
And love the Son of God

Because of Christ I strive to be
A vessel so that men might see
How Jesus Christ has love for me
Sweet Jesus, give me strength!

The Doctrines that I hold as true
Are false without my Savior who
Came to this earth for me and you
I praise His Holy Name

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#SBFCSW “Preaching Christ from the Old Testament”, Dr. Fred Malone

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 571 Comments

Sermon Poetry – “Give Me Eyes to See My Christ”

Oh that I was a man on the road to Emmaus
Hearing my Savior explaining the Word
How my heart would be burning, my ears would be tingling
Such beautiful grace of our glorious Lord
Lord, help me see Christ in the sacrifice
Of innocent sheep sweet and pure
Lord, help me see Christ in the prophecy
The Savior to come right and true

Oh to have understanding of all of the Scriptures
When Scriptures inform me of what Scripture says
My Savior’s the center of all Revelation
The center and purpose of life and God’s plans
Lord, make me submissive and worshipful
To sing praises of Your kind name
Your word tells of Christ and Your holy love
It tells me of Christ and the Cross

Oh that I would see Jesus in the Word God has given
In shadows and visions and prophecies true
To see Christ in Scripture, the whole of the Scriptures
The Covenant Old and the Covenant New
Lord humble this son as I say the words
I desperately need Jesus’ Love
Kind Father, I thank you for sending Christ
The Sacrificed Lamb that I love

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#SBFCSW “Devotional Psalm” (Psalm 130), Pastor Jeff Young

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 542 Comments

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A Great Commission Resurgence in the SBC

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 545 Comments

A new website has been created with an online petition calling for a Great Commission Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention.  The Declaration looks pretty good.  If you wish, you can go HERE to sign it.

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The iMonk on the Current State of the SBC

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 502 Comments

Dynamite stuff:

Southern Baptists are now a denomination where conservative leaders are watching young pastors distance themselves from everything but the most lukewarm denominational loyalties. Gone are the days when Nashville (or the state convention office) determined the programs and priorities of every SBC church. Gone are the days when the local association, the state convention and the national denomination could talk to young pastors with authority and the expectation of being heeded. Gone are the days when younger pastors and would-be church planters were eager to be identified with the SBC.

Today men like John Piper, Mark Dever, Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll, C.J. Mahaney, Bill Hybels, Matt Chandler and Rick Warren are providing models for ministry that appeal to the next generation of Southern Baptist pastors. These men and others wield enormous influence by their example and their determination to communicate with and develop young leaders. Given the choice of a denominational meeting or a trip to a conference sponsored by one of these men, 9Marks, or the Acts 29 Network, it’s not much of a choice for many young pastors.

Unable to face up to the loss of influence, some elements in the denomination have decided to take the once well-used lower road of “denominational loyalty.” Who are the “real Baptists?” How will we know them? Who will “walk the aisle” and announce they are 100% on board with the SBC?

The whole article can be found here.

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