This And That

OK. I spent the last two days at our state Baptist Evangelism conference and didn’t return home wishing for Superman to fly around the earth and recover all of that time for me. I doubt they’ll make the audio available online or for free. <cynical remark>You know us Baptists, if we can make a buck telling people how to share Jesus with others we’ll do it.</cynical remark>

Let it be known that Junior Hill is one funny man with a relevant message. He turned off the guilt and turned on the encouragement. Rare activities at an evangelism conference. Let it be further known that this was the first-ever evangelism conference I have attended in my lifetime in which a preacher used profanity and made a room full of Baptist preachers laugh at it. Let it also be known that Bobby Welch did not mention bloggers one time in the message I heard (I missed his Monday night message), did not bash any Calvinists and mentioned F.A.I.T.H.(C) less than a dozen times. In addition, John Randles slapped us all around with his little red Gideon New Testament yet left us all wanting to say, “Thank you sir, may I have another?” If Osama Bin Laden turns himself in and the BGCO puts the audio online for free, be sure to check out Junior Hill and John Randles.

Otherwise, for some really good audio from a theology conference hosted by the Northwestern Baptist Association in Woodward, OK go here. The speaker was Dr. Jonathan Pennington, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Southern Seminary. Best lecture I’ve heard from a man in a bow tie at least since Al Franken played Paul Simon in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 1988. Very, very good. Now if we can just get John Elam, their Director of Missions, off the golf course long enough to get the rest of the audio up then you can double your pleasure. [Update] It appears that John shot a respectable 83 with the orange ball (better visibility in the snow), and has now uploaded the rest of the audio. Excellent! A genuine thanks to John for making this audio available. It’s mmmmm, mmmmm, good. [/Update]