Who is Voddie?

Who is Dr. Voddie T. Baucham, Jr.?  Dr. Baucham is a former pastor at Grace Church in Spring, Texas (not BIG Spring).  He is now the Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia (he has lived there since 2015).   You may have heard the interview with Glenn Beck on Voddie's latest book Faultlines.  Voddie played football for New Mexico State University, Rice and Houston Baptist University.  In his first game against Univ. of Texas - El Paso (UTEP), he caught 10 passes for 106 yards.  Paige Patterson thought Voddie would make a great President of the SBC.  Voddie's first book was on Apologetics.  When Dr. Baucham taught Sociology, he used a standard mainstream textbook.

 

What can we learn from Voddie's latest book Faultlines?  The website "New Discourses" is a great source for info on Critical Theory.  Voddie visited the Slave Tree in Ndola, Zambia which reminded him that slaves were sold to Spaniards and others by their own African kinsmen. 

 

Speaking of football ... remember Colin Rand "Kap" Kaepernick?  In 2016, he knelt during the national anthem as a form of complaint regarding police action.  But what was the nature of his initial protest?  The incident involved the San Francisco Police and Mario Woods (BTW there is a Frisco, TX).  Police were dispatched because of an alleged stabbing ... Woods was brandishing an eight inch blade.  Five police were on the scene who first spoke to him without effect and then they used pepper spray and projectile bean bags.  Bystanders said, "Drop the knife!" but Woods refused.  Woods moved towards the officers with the knife and it was only then that he was shot.  He was dangerously close - less than ten feet away.

 

How should we react to this tragic event?  One radical activist stated, “If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it”.  Do you want your town to turn into Kenosha, Minneapolis or Portland?

 

Only certain incidents involving police get high profile coverage.  Did you hear what happened to Tony Timpa in Dallas in 2016?  Timpa, who was schizophrenic, called the cops and said he was off his meds and needed assistance.  A security guard had already handcuffed Timpa before the officers arrived.  Three Dallas officers held Timpa as he said, "You're gonna kill me!" several times - this lasted around fourteen minutes.  Then Timpa went limp ... the DPD on the scene did not take this seriously and joked around.  However, one officer said, "I hope we didn't kill him."  Sadly, he had already passed.  The DPD refused to release the body-cam video for 3 years.  The officers involved received no disciplinary action at the time.  Why is it that Tony Timpa's name is not a household word?              

 

Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh.  Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. (2 Cor. 5:16-19, NKJV)   

 

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