Historic Baptist Principles? … or the seed of defeat in the soil of revival

Don Johnson We’ve started a series of posts republishing the sermons from the inaugural Pre-Convention Conference of Northern Baptists, recorded for us in the book Baptist Fundamentals. My copy is from the collection provided by Maranatha Baptist University’s Roger Williams Heritage Archives, a Logos format collection of resources available here. Portions of this material are…

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Comments 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…

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Baptist Fundamentals

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…

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FBFI 2016 Position Statements

Adopted March 11, 2016 Our recently published issue of FrontLine includes the following position statements on Creation and Gender, two vitally important points of contention in our society. The articles of the current issue also address fundamentally important themes. We encourage you to consider subscribing to FrontLine for the excellent material included. Yesterday’s post included…

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Declarations from our Designer: Day Two

Wednesday of our Annual Fellowship is the full day of the conference. Today was filled with tremendous blessing. I’ll only be able to give highlights, audio will be available soon. One of the privileges of the day was to hear from Dr. John Whitcomb, co-author of The Genesis Flood (with Henry Morris). That book made…

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Declarations from our Designer: Day Three

Thursday morning brought our conference to a close. The whole conference was a blessing. Many old friends renewed acquaintance, spent time in conversation, rejoiced in the work of God around the world and worshipped the Lord together once again. Our closing message came from Chaplain Joe Willis: Defending Genesis 1-11 in the Department of Defense.…

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God’s Design for Worship

Don Johnson at the Annual Fellowship of the FBFI – opening service report Dr. Gary Reimers preached the opening message of our Annual Fellowship meeting. Our theme is Declarations from our Designer, and bro. Reimer’s theme is that “God provides the design for worship.” Dr. Reimers first preached on this theme decades ago, his ministry…

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A Rallying Point

That is what we mean to do as the FBFI. Here is our Mission Statement: FBFI’s mission is to provide a rallying point for Fundamental Baptists seeking personal revival and the opportunity to work with committed Bible-believers in glorifying God through the uncompromising fulfillment of the Great Commission. This evening we will be rallying together…

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Reflections 2015

Don Johnson It’s the last day of the year so we’ll wrap up our posting for the year with this, sort of a summary of where we’ve been. For some of the statistical stuff that WordPress generates for us, you can check our “Annual Report Page.” According to them, it would take three days in…

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