Author: art rogers
San Antonio begins
Saturday, June 9th, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
I arrived mid-afternoon on Saturday, in hopes of getting a little rest and reading a few books before the Convention starts. Pray that all goes well. For my church members, thanks for praying for my safety. Keep on praying.
I stayed at my Mom’s last night and dropped my kids off there for the week. She lives North of Ft. Worth, so I stopped at Southwestern Seminary this morning on my way down. I have missed that place tremendously and have not been able to see it for over a decade, with one brief exception. It is important to me for the same reason this blog is named what it is. It is a monument of a time when God did amazing things in my life. I drove around campus and took a few pictures. I eased by a particular tree that I was looking at out of a window in the dorm when I sensed God impressing something amazing to me about all of creation worshiping Him. I took some pictures around campus and I’ll post a few. I did not take any pictures of the President’s Home, Pecan Manor, so don’t ask. The campus was, as always, immaculate. I really miss that place.


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I’ve been adding a few new categories. You can now go back and look at various “live blogging” events (they are not yet all updated), Greensboro, and soon San Antonio will be a tag. I also added the category, “SBC Primer.” Last year, leading up to Greensboro, I took on the task of explaining how everything works during the convention. I was thinking of revising it this year, but time was not as plentiful. If you click the category, though, all of those posts will come up and you can peruse them. I have had a few questions about how to get things done in the convention, and these posts should help you out, if you have a question.
I’ll be live blogging the convention again this year. Apparently, several news agencies have begun to catch on to this as an opportunity to resource interested readers. I can see why. My hits on Tuesday of the Convention last year were in the 6,000 range - and I am but a lowly blogger. Despite their hard work, I’ll keep at it as well. Hope you enjoy my steady diet of posts. I have 41 relating to Greensboro, but some of those were both before and after. I still think I posted at least 20 last year. This is this year’s first.
Again, I ask that you pray for God to be glorified, us to be both obedient and unified and for the Gospel to be proclaimed to the lost by our cooperative efforts.
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June 9th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Art,
Let me be the first to thank you for your efforts to report what so many Baptists will not be able to experience otherwise. I know there will be many doing so, but, you’re the first I’ve discovered in place and posting.
Mary and I will be arriving on Sunday afternoon. I will have my laptop and will, while not posting, be reading your’s and others comments. We hope to see you at some point. No midnight movie this go round. Right?
June 9th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Art,
I wish I could be there…Oh wait, no I don’t
Get some good reading done and say hello to everyone for me!
June 9th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Art -
You are making me wish I had stuck to my original plan to arrive on Saturday too. However, I have had a fabulous day shining up my truck inside and out so that if you need a ride anywhere while you are there, you can ask me and know you’ll be travelling in style.
I won’t arrive until Monday night around 7 p.m., so I look forward to your updates on the Pastor’s Conference. Let’s make sure we do actually get a chance to at least say hello in person this time around, OK?
See you soon …
Dorcas
June 9th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I have found memories of Seminary Hill too. My son was born in Ft. Worth and I learned a lot while I was there. Have a great week Art.
June 9th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I did SWBTS in the mid 80s before the Dilday fiasco. It was a great place to be. I was fortunate to get to have some of the “old lions” before their retirement. I had Vaughan for 1 Peter. I took Garland for all my OT stuff. I got to hear Tolar in Backgrounds (my 2nd time at BB)! It was an awesome place.
I mention the Dilday thing NOT to stir up a conversation as its old history but because he came to my church just outside Tyler on one occasion. I took him out to eat at a catfish place nearby after the morning services. He was such a good guy to sit with. He even made his own catfish sauce there on his plate! I know some in the resurgence may not share my feelings but I truly enjoyed his visit.
BTW, I also tend to pass through the grounds when Im in the area. Perhaps things arent as they were but no one can take away my great memories of my time there.
Trey