Archive for February 2017

Kyle Walker has been named Southwestern Seminary’s new vice president for student services. Walker was recommended for this position by Southwestern President Paige Patterson and unanimously approved by the executive committee of the board of trustees. Walker previously served as dean of students and director of the office of admissions, and he will continue to…

Only three pastors in the history of the Southern Baptist Convention have started a church and then stayed with that church for the next 50 years. Two of these pastors, Tommy French and John Morgan, were spiritually mentored by the same man—L.D. Morgan.[1] Tommy French founded Jefferson Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., in 1959…

Southwestern Ph.D. student Tim Wheeless had already seen three people respond in faith to his Gospel presentations, and so he decided to fall back and take pictures of his fellow church members as they evangelized the people in the village. Wheeless, senior pastor of Fairway Baptist Church in Wichita Falls, had led the team of…

Nearly 200 years of ministry experience were represented on stage during Southwestern Seminary’s first Grindstone of the spring semester, Feb. 7. The featured participants in the panel discussion were Tommy French, founder and pastor emeritus of Jefferson Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La.; and John Morgan, founder and pastor of Sagemont Church in Houston. The…

“The doctrine of election is the glue that holds the soteriology of the New Testament together,” said Southwestern Seminary President Paige Patterson during a sermon on Titus 1:1-4 entitled “Why Election is a Critical Doctrine.” This Jan. 25 message was the first in Patterson’s spring sermon series on the book of Titus that he has…