Kevin Stilley

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Billy Graham knew where he was going

Billy Graham went home to be with his Lord today. I cannot even begin to discuss the the eternal significance of his ministry nor his many contributions to humanity. Instead, I share the following story which I picked up from an unknown source some time ago:

In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte , North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor.

Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson’s disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, “We don’t expect a major address. Just come and let us honor you.” So he agreed.

After wonderful things were said about him, Dr. Graham stepped to the rostrum, looked at the crowd, and said, “I’m reminded today of Albert Einstein, the great physicist who this month has been honored by Time magazine as the Man of the Century. Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there, so he looked in his briefcase but couldn’t find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn’t find it.

The conductor said, “Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I’m sure you bought a ticket. Don’t worry about it.” Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.

The conductor rushed back and said, “Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don’t worry, I know who you are. No problem. You don’t need a ticket. I’m sure you bought one.”

Einstein looked at him and said, “Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don’t know is where I’m going.'”

Having said that Billy Graham continued, “See the suit I’m wearing? It’s a brand new suit. My wife, my children, and my grandchildren are telling me I’ve gotten a little slovenly in my old age. I used to be a bit more fastidious. So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion.

You know what that occasion is? This is the suit in which I’ll be buried. But when you hear I’m dead, I don’t want you to immediately remember the suit I’m wearing. I want you to remember this:

I not only know who I am .. I also know where I’m going.”

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The Bible – select quotes

The distribution of Bibles, if the simplest, in not the least efficacious of the means of extending the blessings of the Gospel to the remotest corners of the earth; for the Comforter is in the sacred volume: and among the receivers of that million of copies distributed by the Society, who shall number the multitudes awakened thereby, with good will to man in their hearts, and with the song of the Lamb upon their lips? The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the holy Scriptures, must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper, till the Lord shall have made “bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
~ John Quincy Adams

For me the Word of God is a happening, not a thing. Therefore the Bible must become the Word of God, and it does this through the work of the Spirit.
~ Karl Barth

Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.
~ E. Paul Harvey

The Bible is the cornerstone of American liberty. A student’s perusal of this sacred volume will make them a better citizen.
~ Thomas Jefferson. According to Daniel Webster, Jefferson said this to him in regard to why the Bible was foundational in the educational plan he helped program for the school system in Washington D.C. Daniel Webster to Professor Peace, June 15, 1852 in The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster, edited by Edward Everett, (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1903).

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
~ Dwight L. Moody

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again.
~ John Newton, in The Works of the Rev. John Newton (London: Nathan Whiting, 1824), page 466.

The Bible is the Constitution of Christian civilization.
~ Gordon Palmer, in By Freedom’s Holy Light (NY: Devin-Adair Co., 1964), page 4

I could not believe that anyone who had read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in every literal word was the divinely inspired, inerrant word of God. Have these people simply not read the text? Are they hopelessly uninformed? Is there a different Bible? Are they blinded by a combination of ego needs and naivete?
~ Bishop John Shelby Spong

A Book which will lift men up to God must have come down from God.
~ R.A. Torrey, quoted by A.W. Pink in “The Miraculous Power of the Bible Shows Forth That Its Inspirer Is The Almighty”

If every book but the Bible were destroyed not a single spiritual truth would be lost.
~ R.A. Torrey, quoted by A.W. Pink in “The Completeness of the Bible Demonstrates Its Divine Perfection”

Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
~ A.W. Tozer

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
~ A. W. Tozer

It is impossible rightly to govern the world without God and the Bible.
~ George Washington

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we or our prosperity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
~ Daniel Webster

God himself has condescended to teach me the way. He has written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me the book of God. Let me be a man of one book.
~ John Wesley

We search the world for truth: we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful
From graven stone and written scroll:
And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our Mothers read.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life.
~ Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

When you have read the Bible you will know that it is the Word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
~ Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
~ The Bible, Hebrews 4:12
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Kevin Stilley on For Christ and Culture Radio

I am a frequent contributor to the For Christ and Culture radio program hosted by Barry Creamer daily on KCBI radio FM 90.9.

Here are links to some of the shows on which I have appeared.

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Early Western Civilization classroom resources

EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION – HIS1103

Prolegomena

Class #1 – Introduction

Research Paper Preparation

Class #2 – What is History?

Class #3 – Pre-History

Class #4 – Mesopotamia – Sumer & Akkad

Class #5 – Egypt

Class #6 – The Patriarchal Period

Class #7 – The Hittites

Class #8 – Western Semitic Power Grabs / David, Solomon, & Rehoboam (The United and Divided Kingdom)

Class #9 – Assyria, Babylon, the Medes & The Persians

Class #10 – Examination #1

Class #11 – “Meanwhile in Greece…”

Class #12 – Greek Mythology & Religion

Class #13 – The Persian Wars

  • — Marathon, Thermopylae, Sparta

Class #14 – Birth of Democracy

Class #15 – The Peloponnesian Wars & Alexander the Great

Class #16 – Pre-Socratic Philosophy

Class #17 – Socrates, Sophists, Plato

Class #18 – Aristotle

Class #19 – Hellenistic & Early Roman Philosophy

Class #20 – Examination #2

Class #21 – Romulus to Hannibal

Class #22 – Roman Prosperity

Class #23 – Roman Empire

Class #24 – Six Flags Over Israel

Class #25 – Roman Provinces & Israel During The Intertestamental Period

Class #26 – The Jewish War With Rome & The Destruction of the Temple

Class #27 – Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Ancient Art, Science, Literature, etc.)

Class #28 – Western Civilization & The Kingdom of God

Class #29 – Final Examination

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Six Flags Over Israel: The Intertestamental Period [lecture slides]

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Early Western Civilization midterm exam

The following is a midterm exam that I gave to my Early Western Civilization students several years ago.  How would you have performed on it?

1. What date does Susan Wise Bauer give as the approximate date for the origin of written history?

a.  300 AD
b.  300 BC
c.  3000 BC
d.  3300 BC
e.  8,000 BC

2. True or False: According to Bauer, when the Sumerian flood story was first translated, most historians assumed that the Genesis account was derived from it, but further study of the differences between the two stories suggests that they are far more likely to have arisen separately from the same source event.

3. True or False: Mesopotamia means the land “between the rivers.”

4. True or False:  Mesopotamia is the cradle of western civilization.

5. True or False: Ionia is the cradle of western philosophy.

6. Which of the following was NOT an Egyptian king?

A. Scorpion King
b. Raging Catfish
c. Noche

7. The Rosetta Stone played a role in (select one)

a. David slaying Goliath
b. Proving the large extent of the Hittite kingdom
c. God inscribing the Ten Commandments
d. Deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
e. Preservation of the Epic of Gilgamesh

8. Place the following empires in the correct order

a. Greek
b. Medes & Persians
c. Babylon
d. Roman

9. Match the following with the most appropriate location of origin. Each answer will be used only once.

a. Epic of Gilgamesh
b. Code of Hammurabi
c. Homeric Poems

[possible answers: Babylon, Ionia, Sumer]

10. Match the definitions with the best choice of terms from the list below

a. The practice of a king assuming the identity of his predecessor
b. Refers to the name which God gives to himself
c. Using names familiar to contemporary readers rather than names in use during the historical past.
d. A human figure with the face of a bull and imprisoned in the Labyrinth
e. A foot soldier
f. Philosophy of the “living stuff”

[List of possible answers: 1. Positional succession, 2. Hoplite, 3. Anachronism, 4. Minotaur, 5. Hylozoism, 6. Tetragrammaton]

11. True of False: It would have been impossible for the Egyptians to have built the pyramids given their technological abilities. The only reasonable answer is that aliens came through a Stargate and used an energy coil called the “Caduceus Coil” to tap into the planetary energy grid in order to levitate the blocks into place.

12. Place the following in correct order, earliest to latest.

a. David
b. Sargon
c. Nebuchadnezzar

13. The birth story of which of the following is very similar to that of Moses’?

a. Sargon
b. Khufu
c. Herodotus
d. Horus
e. Terah

14. Place the following in the correct order

a. Adam
b. Eve
c. Seth
d. Noah
e. Tower of Babylon
f. Abraham
g. Period of the Judges
h. David
i. Divided Kingdom
j. Babylonian captivity

15. True of False: The Hyksos once ruled in Persia.

16. True or False: The legend of the Minotaur is an example of one of the Greek myths which has been proven to be a very precise description of an actual event.

17. True of False: The exodus of the Hebrews shows up nowhere in the Egyptian records.

18. True or false: The Egyptians did not write.

19. True or false: The Philistines kept the Israelites in a position of military inferiority by forbidding them to manufacture any sort of iron tools.

20. True or False: There was no country called Phoenicia.

21. True or False: Jeroboam was Solomon’s son.

22. True or False: Around 721 BC Sargon II wiped the political state of Israel off the map, and removed large numbers of Israelites from their homeland all the way over to the territory of the Medes. This resulted in the despised mix of peoples that the Jews later called Samaritans.

23. Match the following leaders with the location of their rule.

a. Sennacherib
b. Sheshonq
c. Rehoboam
d. Nebuchadnezzar
e. Cyrus the Great

[Possible answers: Babylon, Medes & Persians, Judah, Egypt, Assyria]

24. Match the following gods (God) with their followers.

a. Marduk
b. Horus
c. YHWH

[Possible answers: Egypt, Babylon, Hebrews]

25. True or False: The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are two of the Seven Wonders of the World.

26. True or False: The war between the Greeks and Persians was central to the life of the Greeks, but receives barely a mention in Persian histories.

27. True or False: The Delian League and the Peloponnesian League were manifestations of the rivalry between Athens and Sparta.

28. Which of the following are historians upon which Bauer relies for material. (Select all that apply)

a. Thucydides
b. Herodotus
c. Plutarch

29. True or false: One characteristic of Orphism is that by ritual purifications and an ascetic life they hoped to win release from the body and return to the company of the gods.

30. The logic of which philosopher was the starting-point for both Platonic dialectic and Aristotelian logic.

a. Parmenides
b. Heraclitus
c. Anaximander
d. Thales
e. Tyrannosaurus Rex

31. The Logos is most often associated with which of the following philosophers?

a. Parmenides
b. Heraclitus
c. Anaximander
d. Thales
e. Latissimus Dorsi

32. Complete the sentences by filling in the blank spaces with the correct answer from the list provided below.

a. __________ influenced Plato more than any other philosopher. Important elements passed into Plato’s thought from his predecessors which through him have influenced the later development of European philosophy.
b. From the __________ Plato derives much of his conception of the matter of the physical universe.
c. From the __________ comes the essence of Plato’s doctrine of the nature and destiny of the soul, his insistence on eternal form and order as the supremely important reality and proper object of the intellect, and the emphasis in his though on mathematics and astronomy.
d. From __________ he gits his vision of the transitorinesss of all sensible things and the flux of the material world.
e. __________ and the Eleatics leave him a clear though inadequate vision of eternal being, the beginnings of logical reasoning, and a logical problem to solve.

[Possible answers: 1.  Heraclitus, 2. Parmenides, 3. Pythagoreans, 4. Milesians, 5. Socrates]

33. Match the following statements about “pleasure” with the school it most accurately depicts.

a. “As a humanist agnostic I enjoy pleasure when it is practical as part of a successful civilized human life.”
b. “I can’t really know if pleasure is good or bad, but I have an opinion about it.
c. “I enjoy my pleasure in public and could care less what you think about it.”
d. “It is our feelings of pain and pleasure which are the test by which we determine what is bad and good for us.”
e. “Pleasure? I am utterly indifferent to all external things. I am free from all passion, emotion, and affections.”

[Possible answers: 1. Stoicism, 2. Cynicism, 3. Sophism, 4. Skepticism, 5. Hedonism]

34. True or False: Socrates believed that the first and foremost business of man was care of the soul.

35. True or False: Plato was not very systematic and it is often difficult to find out his solution to the problem he raises.

36. True or False: Plato founded the Lyceum.

37. True or False: Aristotle believed that there exists a world of eternal realities, “Forms” or “Ideas” that are entirely separate from the world our senses perceive, and knowable only by pure intellect.

38. True or False: Plato did not believe in the soul’s pre-existence, but did believe that it could not be extinguished.

39. Place the following in chronological order;

a. John the Baptist
b. Socrates
c. David, son of Jesse
d. Aristotle
e. Alexander the Great
f. Thales
g. Plato

40. True or False: Aristotle rejected Plato’s Theory of Forms.

41. True or False: Aristotle denied the existence of universals.

42. True or False: Socrates wrote no philosophic treatise himself.

44. Which of the following had a more family-friendly political philosophy.

a. Aristotle
b. Plato

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A Worker Reads History

by Bertolt Brecht

Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
The books are filled with names of kings.
Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?
And Babylon, so many times destroyed.
Who built the city up each time? In which of Lima’s houses,
That city glittering with gold, lived those who built it?
In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished
Where did the masons go? Imperial Rome
Is full of arcs of triumph. Who reared them up? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Byzantium lives in song.
Were all her dwellings palaces? And even in Atlantis of the legend
The night the seas rushed in,
The drowning men still bellowed for their slaves.

Young Alexander conquered India.
He alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Was there not even a cook in his army?
Phillip of Spain wept as his fleet
was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?
Frederick the Greek triumphed in the Seven Years War.
Who triumphed with him?

Each page a victory
At whose expense the victory ball?
Every ten years a great man,
Who paid the piper?

So many particulars.
So many questions.

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Preview of 100 Events We Will Cover In Church & Empires

  1. All history is His story.
  2. We must work to differentiate between civilization and Christianity.
  3. The past is a “foreign country.” – hermeneutics emic vs. etic
  4. Persecution of Christian during the reign of Domitian (81-96 A.D) came to forefront in Asia Minor where the imperial cult was centered.
  5. Persecution resulted in two significant literary productions: apologetics and martyrdom.
  6. Heresy promoted doctrinal systematization.
  7. Irenaeus important for representing orthodox reaction to heresy (Against Heresies).
  8. Tertullian’s writings tell us much about alternative understandings of Christianity.
  9. Origen produced the first systematic theology.
  10. Claims against Christians included obstinacy, disloyalty, atheism, cannibalism, incest.
  11. Philosophers such as Celsus, Galen, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius argued that Christians were “weaklings”, irrational, gullible, and fanatics.
  12. Persecution was sporadic but “always present as a possibility.”
  13. The early church fathers gave us a rich theological inheritance, but were not immune to error.
  14. Irenaeus – Trinitarian, fought Gnosticism, but also apostolic succession, emphasis upon tradition, priority of Roman bishop
  15. Perhaps the most influential second century apologist was Justin Martyr. Others included Tatian, Athenagorus, Thophilus and Minucius Felix.
  16. The Logos was prominent in apologetic literature (a) The Logos as the reason or wisdom of God, (b) the Logos as God’s spoken word, (c) the Logos as immanent in the world, (d) the Logos as the revealed word of God in the prophets, (e) the incarnate Jesus.
  17. Martyrdom literature took three forms, letters, passions, and acts.
  18. “Beginning with Constantine, the church entered imperial history in such a way that one cannot deal with the secular history of the fourth century without discussing the church and cannot deal with the religious history without considering the state.”
  19. Arius believed that, “Thee was when Christ was not” — that Jesus was the first and highest of God’s creations – a god.
  20. Arianism was addressed at the Council of Nicea, called by Constantine in 325.
  21. The council adopted the word homoousious to describe Christ’s relationship with the Father.
  22. The first four ecumenical councils were Nicea (325), Constantinople (381), Ephesus (431), Chalcedon (451).
  23. The fourth century dealt with the Trinitarian conflict. The fifth century with the Christological controversy.
  24. Apollonarianism = the belief that the divine Logos replaced the human soul/spirit of Jesus.
  25. Nestorianism = Christ exists as two natures, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than as a unified person.
  26. Eutychianism = Monophysitism – only one nature of Christ, the human nature overcome by the divine nature.
  27. Ebionites – Denied the full deity of Christ (As the Christ, he functioned as God on earth)
  28. Docetism – Appeared to be a man
  29. Eutychianism – Human nature became absorbed into the God nature such that
  30. Monarchianism/Seballianism – Modalism
  31. Adoptionism – man in the beginning but adopted as the Son of God and became deity
  32. Kenoticsm – God became less God to become man, he set aside part of his deity
  33. We must watch out for language games – equivocation
  34. Constantine moves capital in 330
  35. The Eastern Empire becomes seat of power and wealth
  36. Roman bishop left as single most powerful person in the West
  37. By the end of the 4th century barbarians serious problem in the west (Visgoths, Huns, etc)
  38. After the sacking of Rome in 410, Christian views of society and history were put forth, including the most prominent which was Augustine’s City of God.
  39. Compare Augustine’s Two Cities with Genesis 4-5.
  40. Other important works of Augustine which we will discuss include his Confessions, and On the Trinity,
  41. Augustine – bridge between ancient world and Middle Ages
  42. Roman bishop won primacy over other bishops
  43. When imperial throne falls into the hands of the barbarians in 476 people look to the Roman bishop for political leadership as well as spiritual leadership
  44. Western civilization was created in medieval Europe (institutions, mentalities, struggles, books, etc.) No more Roman Lake.
  45. Spontaneous mission work in 4th & 5th centuries
  46. “Medieval history, from one point of view, is the story of the movement of the centre of gravity of civilization from one side of the Alps to the other.”
  47. “The movement of the centres of civilization from south to north and from east to west during the medieval centuries involved a change from the empires of Rome, Byzantium, and the Arabs, empires of vast geographical extent and great military power but which were relatively loosely controlled.”  Creation of new societies.
  48. Christians among the Britons by the end of the second century.
  49. When Roman missionaries came England in 6th century they found three distinct expressions of Christianity (1)Romano-British Christians in the South, (2) Irish Christians, and (3) Celtic Christianity.
  50. Boniface evangelizes Teutonic tribes occupying modern Germany
  51. In the East, political stability achieved through reducing taxes and trimming expenses. (common vision)
  52. Syriac speaking Christians took gospel to Persian where there was interest in medicine, philosophy, advanced education.
  53. Persians make peace treaty with Justinian in 532
  54. Justinian had eyes on Africa and Italy
  55. 539 Khosru declares War on “Rome”
  56. Bubonic plague, Slavs, Goths keep Eastern empire from “glory” – Justinian’s reign relentless, austere quality
  57. Persia becomes stronger than at any time since Darius I
  58. Time of weak leadership makes susceptible to be conquered.
  59. In the sixth century many Arabs had converted to Christianity, but most continued to worship tribal deities.
  60. Mohammad lived 570-632.
  61. Ten years = 65 raids or campaigns
  62. Eventually becomes powerful enough to take Mecca, destroys idols, establishes Islam
  63. Islam means “submission.”
  64. Muslim means “one who submits.”
  65. The century of Muslim expansion is traditionally dated as 632-732.
  66. By 650 his Muslims had overrun the Persian empire, taken Syria, Egypt, and Palestine
  67. Western empire makes gains in the North through evangelism.
  68. Missionary task included making sure converts would be loyal to the pope.
  69. Emperors in Constantinople thought the church should be subordinate to the ruler of the state.
  70. Pope seeks ally
  71. Frankish rulers
  72. Rulers of new empire were Teutons rather than Romans
  73. Franks had accepted the Roman culture
  74. Clovis (466-510) had unified the Franks and conquered most of what would be modern France
  75. Franks accepted Christianity in 496 and became bulwark of papal power in Western Europe
  76. Eastern Empire barely hold its own against Muslims
  77. 718 Eastern empire under Leo the Isaurian stops Muslim advance
  78. Charles Martel stopped the advance of Islam in Spain in 732.
  79. Muslims, influenced by Greek culture, set out to build a splendid Arabic civilization centered in Bagdad
  80. Eastern Influence Diminishes (North African church disappears, Egypt and Holy Land lost to Muslims, Roman bishop has been growing stronger and stronger)
  81. The Franks “snatched western Europe from decline and brought a brief cultural revival” when Charlemagne crowned as true successor to the Roman empire.
  82. Charlemagne had Augustine’s City of God read to him every night and it was his inspiration for a Frankish-Roman empire.
  83. Charlemagne saw “missions” as part of a military strategy.
  84. By the time of the new millennium (1000) almost all of Europe was “officially” Christian.
  85. Charlemagne was crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas day of 800, but intentionally avoided having the Pope present when control was passed to his son (816).
  86. “The Constitution romana (824) spelled out relations of emperor and pope. The emperor had supreme jurisdiction, while the pope as a local ruler was to exercise ordinary judiciary and administrative power in his territories.  The pope was to be chosen by the Roman people without constraint.  The emperor was to confirm his election, and before his consecration he was to take an oath of loyalty to the emperor.  The pope had the right to crown and anoint the emperor.
  87. Henry III, German emperor, was the last emperor able to dominate the papacy. Deposed three rival popes and installed his own.
  88. Excommunication of Henry IV by Gregory VII in 1076.
  89. Pope Boniface VII: Unam Sanctum (1302)For when the Apostles say: ‘Behold, here are two swords’ [Lk 22:38] that is to say, in the Church, since the Apostles were speaking, the Lord did not reply that there were too many, but sufficient. Certainly the one who denies that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter has not listened well to the word of the Lord commanding: ‘Put up thy sword into thy scabbard’ [Mt 26:52]. Both, therefore, are in the power of the Church, that is to say, the spiritual and the material sword, but the former is to be administered _for_ the Church but the latter by the Church; the former in the hands of the priest; the latter by the hands of kings and soldiers, but at the will and sufferance of the priest.
  90. Erastians –
  91. Calvin –
  92. Luther –
  93. Anabaptists –
  94. What Does the Bible Say? Deut 17:8ff
  95. 1 Samuel 13
  96. 2 Chronicles 26:16-21
  97. Luke 20:22ff
  98. First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
  99. Aristocracy = weakness, meritocracy = strength
  100. Six things that lead to cultural change: war, politics, religion, migration, economics, education.

 

 

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Spring 2017 Criswell College Chapel

Check out the great list of speakers for chapel this semester at Criswell College, and then come join us.

Tuesday, January 17                     Dr. Barry Creamer, President, Criswell College (Convocation/Regalia)

Thursday, January 19                   Dr. Dante Wright, Senior Pastor, Sweet Home Baptist Church, Round Rock, TX                    

Tuesday, January 24                    Dr. Jeffrey Bingham, Dean of the School of Theology, SWBTS, Fort Worth, TX

Thursday, January 26                  Dr. Christopher Graham, Assistant Professor of Theology, Criswell College

Tuesday, January 31                     Sanctity of Life Panel Discussion (not all participants secured)

Leanne Jamieson, Director, Prestonwood Pregnancy Center, Richardson, TX

Ann Hettinger, former State Director, CWA Texas, Dallas, TX

TBD, Gladney Center for Adoption, Fort Worth, TX (waiting on confirmation)

Thursday, February 2                  Jerry A. Johnson, President and CEO, National Religious Broadcasters, Washington, D.C.

Tuesday, February 7                    Dr. Jeff Campbell, Assistant Professor of Preaching, Dean of Students, Criswell College

Thursday, February 9                  Dr. Adam Greenway, Dean, Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry, Vice President for Academic Services, Southern Seminary, Louisville, KY (SBTC Revitalization Conference)

Tuesday, February 14                  Joshua Crutchfield, Senior Pastor, FBC Madisonville, TX

Thursday, February 16                Great Commission Chapel, Kenya Mission trip testimonies

Tuesday, February 21                  Dr. Bruce Ashford, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC

Thursday, February 23                Dr. Danny Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC

Tuesday, February 28                  JT Riley, Pastor, Providence Baptist Church, Providence Village, TX

Thursday, March 2                      Aaron Scarbrough, Pastor, Graceview Baptist Church, Burleson, TX

Tuesday, March 7                        Kevin Stilley, Chief Business Officer and Vice President of Finance, Criswell College

Thursday, March 9                      Dr. Steve Hunter, Hope for the Heart Chair of Biblical Counseling and Professor of Counseling & Psychology, Criswell College

Tuesday, March 14                      Spring Break

Thursday, March 16                    Spring Break

Tuesday, March 21                       Great Commission Week Chapel, Shane Pruitt, Director of Missions, Southern Baptists of Texas Convention

Thursday, March 23                    Church Revitalization Chapel preacher TBD (Dr. Meraz will schedule)

Tuesday, March 28                      Dr. Everett Berry, Professor of Theology, Criswell College

Thursday, March 30                    Preaching Award Recipient (TBD)

Tuesday, April 4                           Dr. Joseph Wooddell, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Criswell College

Thursday, April 6                         Dr. Barry Creamer, President, Criswell College

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