Posts by Proclaim and Defend
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America!…
Read More2019 Torchbearer Award – Dr. Ed Nelson
Tonight at the opening service of the Foundations Baptist Fellowship Annual Fellowship, it was our pleasure to honor Dr. Ed Nelson for his many years of service. Dr. Nelson is 95 years old. He climbed the steps to the podium to offer his thanks, not wanting to wait for a portable mic. Of course, that…
Read MoreAnnouncing The Fundamentals for the 21st Century
In 1917 the Bible Institute of Los Angeles printed a collection of articles—edited by R. A. Torrey, A. C. Dixon, and many others—called The Fundamentals. Leaders from all realms of fundamentalism made contributions. The articles identified and clarified the fundamentals of the faith as distinctive from what had become liberal mainline Christianity. The series has…
Read MoreBeneth Peters Jones
Release from Bob Jones University: Dear Alumni Early this morning, Feb. 2, 2019, Beneth Peters Jones, 81, wife of Bob Jones University chancellor and former president Dr. Bob Jones III, went to be with the Lord. Mrs. Jones served at Bob Jones University 58 years, including 34 years as the wife of the third university…
Read MoreA Century of Trouble and Hope – FrontLine
November/December 2018 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 6 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. Job 12:23–24 The year 1919…
Read MoreNow thank we all our God
1 Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom his world rejoices; who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. 2 O may this bounteous God through all our life be…
Read MoreMaking Entertainment Choices
FrontLine — September/October 2018 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 5 Prove It! Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:21–22 I have a secret passion. I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a child of the 1970s I became a rabid Phoenix Suns fan.…
Read MoreTeach Us to Pray
FrontLine | July/August 2018 When setting out to put together this issue of FrontLine, we regularly encountered an objection from prospective writers. Not, “Sorry brother, I just can’t make any more commitments at this time,” but, “Brother, I just don’t feel adequate to write on that topic.” I sympathize with this objection. Who really feels…
Read MoreIntroducing the P&D Resources Page
Proclaim & Defend recently added a Resources page. The topics we discuss on these pages often are more fully developed in books and resources that we highlight here. Additionally, many members of the Foundations Baptist Fellowship are writers. We want to promote their work here. They are worth reading. You can find links to their…
Read MoreThe Generation to Come (June 11-13)
We would like to invite you to join us on June 11-13 for the Foundation Baptist Fellowship International Annual Fellowship hosted by the First Baptist Church of Troy in Troy, Michigan. We have a dynamic lineup of speakers scheduled including Dr. David Saxon. Dr. Saxon has served in the local church as a pastor, adult…
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