The following will be announced today, during the English and Cantonese services at my home church, Toronto Jaffray Chinese Alliance:

Our brother, Alex Leung, has been accepted into The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He will be leaving for Kentucky on August 5 in preparation for his M.Div studies in August. There will be a commissioning service next Sunday, July 29 (at 9am). Please come and join us to celebrate his new journey.

If you are free and have no ministry responsibilities on the 29th –you’re invited to share in this celebration with me

Please pray for me as I am preparing a 10 minute testimonial for that service, as well as packing up for the move to Louisville.

For your weekend viewing… videos from the recent Southern Baptist Annual Convention 2007

Dr. Albert Mohler’s Southern Seminary Report:
(see also the Baptist Faith & Message, 2000):

Dr. Albert Mohler Answers What Doctrines Matter and What Are Secondary:

Dr. Albert Mohler’s Testimony On Suffering:

(HT: Said at Southern)

I had quite the productive Saturday doing what amounts to nothing in terms of a social life. It was one of the few Saturdays from now until I leave for Louisville that I actually had nothing scheduled — no softball, no ministry responsibilities to attend to, no gatherings with friends planned. I did try to schedule something with some friends, but it never came to fruition. Thus it seems to me, either I am quite boring or I have too many friends who are in relationships.

I’ll lean toward the latter

3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
(2 Peter 1:3-11)

Michael Haykin has been appointed as professor of biblical spirituality and church history at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was previously at Toronto Baptist Seminary since 2002 — great to see another Canadian and Torontonian moving to Southern, and a pioneer professor in his field whom I could study under