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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: Mark Coppenger | History and Future of the Southern Baptist Convention

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol sits down with special guest, Dr. Mark Coppenger to talk about IOPT, his history in philosophy, calling to pastoral ministry, working in the Southern Baptist Convention and the future of the SBC.   #WieldTheSword: Aesthetics | Mark Coppenger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8HEJXB9s8&t=628s A Call to Action for Southern Baptist Pastors - Tom Ascol article | https://founders.org/2022/01/05/a-call-to-action-for-southern-baptist-pastors/ My Endorsement for SBC President - Heath Lambert article | https://fbcjax.com/my-endorsement-for-sbc-president/ The 2021 Southern Baptist Convention: What Just Happened? - Tom Ascol article | https://founders.org/2021/06/17/the-2021-southern-baptist-convention-what-just-happened/ 2022 National Founders Conference Livestream: https://press.founders.org/armory/2022-conference-livestream/ Shop the Founders Press Store: https://press.founders.org/ Become a part of the F.A.M. https://press.founders.org/fam/ The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org/ Wield The Sword: https://founders.org/wieldthesword/   Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/   All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sword and the Trial. It's a podcast of Founders Ministries and Founders

0:04.1

Exists for the Recovery of the Gospel and the Reformation of Local Churches. And I'm Tom

0:08.8

Askell and I'm delighted to have you join with us again this week. Today we have a very special

0:14.3

guest, Dr. Mark Coppenter, who is an old friend and who has been teaching at the Institute of

0:19.8

Public Theology here this week.

0:21.7

We'll be teaching another course in just a few weeks.

0:24.6

Mark has been stepping in due to some difficulties we have with travel arrangements and getting Vody

0:29.7

Baccombe over here, so he and Vody Baccombe and wound up team teaching the cultural

0:34.2

apologetics course for the Institute of Public Theology.

0:37.9

And beginning in February the 14th through the 18th that week,

0:41.8

he will be teaching an introduction to philosophy class that you can sign up for

0:46.0

and just go to the Institute of Public Theology.org and get more information there.

0:49.9

The week before that, on the 7th of February, Conrad and Bayway,

0:54.0

will be here teaching a course

0:55.8

on preaching. So again, for more information, just go to the website. You can get to it from

1:00.1

Founders.org or the Institute of Public Theology.org. So Mark, welcome. Thank you for being with us today.

1:07.1

Yeah, I appreciate so much this class that you are teaching on cultural apologetics,

1:12.4

and I've been able to sit in on a little bit of it, but I've talked to the students, and, man,

1:17.1

everybody's so excited and grateful for your willingness to come and do what you've done,

1:21.6

especially on such short notice and with such excellence. And I've described it to our people

1:27.2

here and to the students.

1:28.7

It's like, you know, you've got Aaron Rogers, who's scheduled to be your starting quarterback

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