What Pastor Blair Has Been Reading (from January 2019 through March 2019) Alexander, T. Desmond. From Eden to the New Jerusalem: An Introduction to BiblicalTheology. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2008. This was the most recent choice of my men's group that meets on Thursday morning. It may seem elementary to some, but it is amazing how quickly people forget the meta-na...

We have a true blessing in our church. April Box is a gifted writer. Over the past couple of years, she has been writing a blog about everyday moments. She and her dear husband have been blessed with an incredible little boy that some would term 'special needs'. The Box family sees him as the true gift that he is; a precious child created in the image of God. April writes ...

In this past week's sermons, I talked about the misapplication of the 'sluggard' passages in Proverbs. I said that they don't apply to two groups; those who are burned out and those who are work-a-holics. With the former group, they feel extreme guilt when they here the words 'lazy' or 'slothful' when the truth of the matter is they are exhausted. The latter group uses the...

Our elders met last week to consider this serious matter in light of the Houston Chronicle article exposing sexual abuse in Southern Baptist Churches (see http://www.providencebaptist.us/blog/post/sex-abuse-investigation-of-sbc-leaders). It was a true blessing to meet and discover that all of us were of one accord on this issue. We all agreed that a) there should be a clea...

On Sunday morning, a few minutes before I left my office to go to the worship center to preach, a friend sent a text to me. I knew he would not text me in this hour unless it was important. Within it's contents was a link to the front page story of the Houston Chronicle (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/) detailing their investigation of sex crimes committed by leaders wit...

What Pastor Blair Has Been Reading (from October 2018 through December 2018) Anon. Proverbs: The 17:18 Series. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage, 2011. This was a Christmas gift to me from Laura Hogue. The inspiration is from Deuteronomy 17:18 where the Hebrew king was to write out the law of God. Reformation Heritage has produced a journal to do this with each book o...

Pastor Blair's Top Ten Books Read in 2018 As usual, my top ten tend to reflect my interests in history. I choose the ranking on how much the book influenced my thinking. If I have found myself still pondering and dialoguing with the content much later, I rank the book higher. The reviews can be found in my earlier blog posts. Traeger, Sebastian Greg Gilbert. The Gos...

Presented at the 2018 Annual Business Meeting It is with a great deal of pride that I get to present the elders annual report on this our 15th anniversary of Providence Baptist Church. This coming Friday will mark the official date of the signing of the church covenant, but we held our celebration a little over a month ago in a warmer climate. On behalf of the elders, ...

We have two important events coming up in the life of our church. The first is our annual missions banquet. Providence has the privilege to sponsor two domestic church planters and four international missionary families. We will hear from them this Sunday night, 5:00 PM, on December 2 at the fellowship hall of Capshaw Baptist Church. In addition to this, we will kick off o...

It is that time of year again. Thanksgiving and the holidays are before us and various organizations are asking for some type of contribution. At Providence, alone, we have the Madison County Sherriff's Chaplain Corp, Operation Christmas Child, Lunches of Love, the Downtown Rescue Mission and Lottie Moon, not to mention the 50/50 fund and regular tithe. With so many reques...