Posts by Proclaim and Defend
Teach 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…
Read MoreP&D Best Of: A Look Back at Child Protection
A Christmas day shock hit my town with this story of a terrible murder of two lovely little girls, apparently committed by their father. An op-ed points out several similar tragedies in other communities recently. The story appears to be the all too familiar bitter custody battle between mother and father. It is hard to…
Read MoreP&D: Top Posts in the Last Year
Our readership is relatively modest, as blogs go, but we are thankful for the opportunity to proclaim the Gospel message by way of this site. In the last year, according to Google Analytics, we had just over 40,000 unique visitors and 85,883 pageviews. How many readers and how many views constitute success in the online…
Read MoreP&D on Boxing Day
In Canada, today is the biggest shopping day of the year. The day is called “Boxing Day,” a holiday in the United Kingdom and many of its former colonial possessions. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is “the first week-day after Christmas-day observed as a holiday on which post-men, errand-boys, and servants of various…
Read MoreProblems and Misunderstandings
FBFI Pulpit: Dr. David Innes, Hamilton Square Baptist Church, San Francisco, CA Series: What is Fundamentalism? In this brief concluding message, Dr. Innes deals with problems and misunderstandings that cause confusion, weakness and unnecessary, unbiblical divisions among Fundamentalists. Fundamentalism’s strength is its willingness to separate from brethren who compromise the gospel, but fundamentalism’s weakness corresponds…
Read MoreThe Genius of Apostasy (2)
FBFI Pulpit: Dr. David Innes, Hamilton Square Baptist Church, San Francisco, CA Series: What is Fundamentalism? Dr. Innes concludes his message from the previous week, summing up the subtle movements that lead a man towards apostasy. He answers the question, “When do I start speaking up or even separating from someone who is drifting?” To…
Read MoreThe Genius of Apostasy (1)
FBFI Pulpit: Dr. David Innes, Hamilton Square Baptist Church, San Francisco, CA Series: What is Fundamentalism? In this message, Dr. Innes deals with the difficulty of standing against apostasy. Apostasy appears to be compassionate, full of good works, well spoken of and command the attention and allegiance of so many good people. What is a…
Read MoreThe Heart of Modesty
P&D weblog Our post today features an article by Rachel Hicks on modesty. In “The Heart of Modesty” Rachel offers some correctives to the idea that modesty is primarily an effort to avoid being provocative. In fact, modesty is the fruit of spiritual living and thinking. She suggests focusing on “not being provocative” “take modesty…
Read More