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Truth through Personality (2)
Mark Minnick Yesterday we began an article by Dr. Minnick which introduced the lectures of Phillips Brooks on preaching. This article is an edited version of Brooks’ first lecture. The key idea of preaching, in Brooks’ terminology, is found in our title, “Truth through Personality.” Part One introduced these two components of preaching and then…
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Mark Minnick One of the striking anomalies of church history is that God sometimes uses even unorthodox preachers to throw brilliant light on sacred subjects. A case in point is the 19th-century Episcopalian minister Phillips Brooks. Brooks considered himself an evangelical and even led in prayer during a series of evangelistic meetings held in Boston…
Read MoreSinging (Part 1)
George Stiekes I will praise Thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all Thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in Thee: I will sing praise to Thy name, O Thou most High. Psalm 9:1-2 Singing is a very vital part of worship. It is obviously part of the…
Read MoreComments on Baptist Fundamentals: Opening Address
Don Johnson Today I’d like to highlight some passages from the article published yesterday in order to offer some contemporary commentary. In the introduction of the article, I said this: “The old connection to the Northern Baptist Convention (now American Baptist Convention) is long gone, but the concerns and goals remain the same.” In today’s…
Read MoreBaptist Fundamentals: Opening Address
J. C. Massee, D. D. President at the Pre-Convention Conference Buffalo, New York, June 21, 1920 Opening Address With this article we commence the publication of the messages published in Baptist Fundamentals. Last week we posted the Introduction which explains what the book is about and how the messages contained in it came about. We…
Read MoreA Light Shining in the Darkness
Mike Redick On Wednesday night we decided to take the old gospel to the streets of Singapore to reach a new generation of young people. Like every major city in the world, Singapore is filled with people of all shapes and sizes from different races and religions. On this particular night one of our witnessing…
Read MoreTruth and Consequences
Mike Ascher From 1940 to the mid 1980s the program Truth or Consequences aired on American radio and television. Contestants were asked silly, “trick” questions that were phrased in such a way that wrong answers were usually given. The emcee then told the participants that since they did not tell the truth, they would have…
Read MoreWorldliness
George Stiekes From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because…
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In 1920, prior to the main meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention, Bible-believing Baptists were called to a pre-Convention Convention. This was known as the Fundamental Fellowship and is the seminal meeting of Baptists who continue to meet to this day as the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship, although the connection with the Northern Convention (now American…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening to American Christianity?
Joel Arnold A recent thorough survey of religion in America told us something we already knew—by pretty much any measure the number of people engaged with religion is dropping rapidly. The study isn’t with fundamental or even evangelical churches—it cuts broadly across denominations, generations, and social groups, measuring religious interest over multiple decades. And the…
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