Archive for February 2020

Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College and recently named chairman of the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee, preached in chapel at The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Feb. 13, on the need for Christians to see through “Gospel lenses.” Stetzer preached 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, deriving four points…

“Why did God choose you?” Jamie Dew, the newly inaugurated ninth president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, posed this question during The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s chapel service, Feb. 6. Dew noted that people tend to respond to that question with a list of their supposed qualifications, but he urged them to consider that,…

The year was 1980 and the buzz across the Southwestern campus was that, if at all possible, you must take this professor during your days at the seminary. That professor was James Leo Garrett Jr., who had just returned to Southwestern where he had previously taught from 1949-59. From 1959-73, he held a faculty position…

James Leo Garrett Jr., distinguished professor of theology emeritus at The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Feb. 5 in Nacogdoches, Texas, after a long and illustrious academic career, including a combined 28 years at Southwestern Seminary over two stints. He was 94. Garrett found widespread acceptance not only in Baptist circles, but also in the wider…