Blog Archive
for October, 2007
I Want to Be in That Thunder: Why We Can’t Hear the Great Commission
— Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 —
Keep Reading...Happy Birthday, RDM
— Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 —
Note: This is a guest commentary by Robert E. Sagers, who serves as special assistant to Dr. Russell D. Moore at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It has been posted here unbeknownst to Dr. Moore.
Root-beer flavored Mike and Ikes? Surely, this couldn’t really be happening.
Here I was, standing in the midst of an aisle at a roadside gas station somewhere in eastern Kentucky, looking at candy stacked up near to my neck. Standing beside me was a man whom I considered to be the greatest preacher in the world, with unparalleled intellect, unmatched godliness, a man whose writings and sermons and kindness had already deeply impacted me in the few months that I had known of him. So as he suggested buying the root-beer flavored sugar stuff to complement the strawberry candies I clasped in my left hand in order to sustain us on the road to Tennessee, the only thought that kept circulating in my mind was, “Russell D. Moore eats Mike and Ikes?”
The thought of this great theologian rattling out the last of the candy from a small, multi-colored cardboard box in preparation to preach one of the best sermons that I would have heard up to that point in my life seemed so benign, so inconsequential, so… normal.
Discovering a common love for a certain kind of gas station-bought candy may have been one of the first joys that I shared with Dr. Moore–also called, by me, Dean Moore, RDM, and the Cricket–but it was certainly not the last.
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