Why the FBFI?

By Don Johnson | June 23, 2022 |

We enjoyed tremendous services and other sessions at our recent annual meeting, held at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, SC. You can find audio…

Finding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 3

By Ron Perry | June 22, 2022 | Comments Off on Finding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 3

(Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.) A few years ago, our family relocated here in Folsom. In our search for new housing, we…

God Made Boys and Girls, a review

By Rachel Powell | June 21, 2022 |

“Mommy, let’s get this book!” My three-year-old daughter exclaimed as she pulled a sparkly pink book about drag queens off the library shelf. Visit the…

A Father from Generation to Generation

By Kevin Schaal | June 19, 2022 |

  My grandfather was saved as an adult. After he died, a written account of his salvation story circulated among our family members. We did…

More on Worship

By George Stiekes | June 17, 2022 | Comments Off on More on Worship

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the name of the Lord; praise Him, O ye servants of the Lord. Psalm 135:1 In Children’s Sunday School,…

Creation, Sex, and Gender

By Kevin Bauder | June 16, 2022 |

The Bible’s account of the Creation and Fall defines many areas of human interest. One of the areas it affects most is human sex and…

Finding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 2

By Ron Perry | June 15, 2022 | Comments Off on Finding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 2

Each of us has distinguishing physical features, including scars that are simply part of who we are. Each of my scars represents a story, involving…

Believing Evangelism – 2022 Annual FBFI Fellowship

By Don Johnson | June 14, 2022 | Comments Off on Believing Evangelism – 2022 Annual FBFI Fellowship

We are in Greenville, SC, at Mount Calvary Baptist Church for the annual FBFI Fellowship meeting. We enjoyed a tremendous opening service, with great music…

Take Back the Family Meal

By Kevin Schaal | June 13, 2022 | Comments Off on Take Back the Family Meal

  My family ate together every evening (except Tuesdays, when we all scrambled out of the house together to go to midweek prayer meeting). It…

What Are We Missing in Our Bibles?

By Don Johnson | June 10, 2022 |

In a Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) article,1 Ben Witherington III says, “First, we know that Pharisees — including Paul, as a former Pharisee — did…

Boasting in Shame

By David Oliver | June 9, 2022 | Comments Off on Boasting in Shame

Among the many books in my library is a very useful commentary on the book of Genesis by Lutheran scholar, H.C. Leupold. This two-volume exposition…

Finding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 1

By Ron Perry | June 8, 2022 | Comments Off on Finding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 1

Hello, my name is Ron Perry, and I have a past. My past consists of both good things and bad things. The mysterious difficulty of…

Thirsting

By George Stiekes | June 7, 2022 | Comments Off on Thirsting

Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6). It is normal to eat when we are…

It’s Called Grooming

By Kevin Schaal | June 5, 2022 |

The State of Arizona, with our tax dollars, has set up groom rooms (called Chat Spaces) where your pre-teen and junior high students can interact…

Face to Face

By George Stiekes | June 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Face to Face

And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend (Exodus 33:11). And there arose not a prophet since…

The End of All Things Is at Hand

By Matt Athey | June 2, 2022 |

  Peter makes a shocking statement in the middle of chapter 4, “But the end of all things is at hand…” How do we understand…

Dementia’s Drowning Caregiver

By Shelly Hamilton | June 1, 2022 |

Let’s face it—every dementia patient has a person, usually family member, who serves as main caregiver. Any other caregivers that come into the home, serve…

Don’t Follow Your Heart!

By Dale Cunningham | May 31, 2022 | Comments Off on Don’t Follow Your Heart!

A man is not a murderer because he kills; he kills because he is a murderer. For out of the heart come murders (Matthew 15:19).…

The Tyranny of “Do-Somethingism”

By Kevin Schaal | May 29, 2022 | Comments Off on The Tyranny of “Do-Somethingism”

As we celebrate—really celebrate is not the correct word—commemorate Memorial Day, our nation finds itself having memorials of an entirely different type. New York, New…

How to Pray in Dark Days

By Gordon Dickson | May 27, 2022 | Comments Off on How to Pray in Dark Days

“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” (Eph 6.18) In military…

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