You weren’t created for boredom or burnout or bondage to sexual lust or greed or ambition but for the incomparable pleasure and matchless joy that knowing Jesus alone can bring. Only then, in Him, will you encounter the life-changing, thirst-quenching, soul-satisfying delight that God, for His glory, created you to experience.
Sam Storms

Lee Rutland Scarborough

Lee Rutland Scarborough

Lee Rutland Scarborough
1870-1945
Baptist minister and educator. L.R. Scarborough was born in Colfax, Louisiana, on July 4, 1870. His father was a farmer and preacher. Lee, one of five children in the family, was converted to Christ at the age of 17 at the First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, and was ordained as a Baptist minister by the First Baptist Church of Abilene, Texas, in 1896. After graduating from Baylor University in 1892, he taught at that same institution for the next two years. He then entered Yale University, where he received an additional degree in 1896. Upon completion of his seminary work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1900, Scarborough pastored in Texas for the next eight years. In 1908 he went to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, as a professor in the school of theology, where he served until elected president of the seminary in 1915. He served in that capacity for the next 27 years until he retired in 1942.

During this period he also served as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (1929-31), vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1934-35), president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1938-41), and vice president of the Baptist World Alliance (1940-41). Dr. Scarborough was the author of 14 books, as well as a great preacher and soulwinner. He died in Amarillo, Texas, on April 10, 1945.

Ruckman ’66