Posts Tagged ‘Separation’
The Eclectic Web–2013.3.28
News of interest or oddity collected in recent rovings around the net. Relevance – we need to be ‘with it’, don’t we? Searching for one-size-fits-all religion As I mentioned before, I’m not religious. If I were, however, I think I’d have something more important to worry about than God’s relevance to me. I’d worry about…
Read MoreFinishing Strong
John Brock “ . . . Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!” (Numbers 23:10b). Those of us who have had veteran pastors who handle the Word of God with skill, honesty, and faithfulness are truly blessed. Unfortunately, when I look back over my life, almost…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–January 4, 2013
Your Bible Reading Plan Do you have a Bible Reading Plan? We are encouraging our church members to adopt a plan of regular Bible reading. I’d like to share some good options for you – some are more rigorous than others. From NavPress and their Discipleship Journal, three variations with flexiblity and ‘catch-up’ days. Here’s…
Read MoreA renewed review: The Dividing Line
Layton Talbert Mark Sidwell, The Dividing Line: Understanding and Applying Biblical Separation (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1998). 200 pages. Why another book on separation? Author Mark Sidwell (who also edited Fred Moritz’s Be Ye Holy) anticipates this question. His goal is “to supplement, not to supplant, other studies.” The author’s aim and spirit…
Read MoreChallenges Facing Fundamentalism in the New Millennium
James Singleton These words were published almost thirteen years ago. Their insight into the signs of the times are worth reading again. It was said that Rip Van Winkle slept through the American Revolution. Today we face a cultural crisis that began in the last few decades of the 20th century and will probably continue…
Read MoreHermeneutics (Part 4): Context and the Doctrine of Separation: A Case Study
by Layton Talbert This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The most effective way to illustrate the importance of context in Bible interpretation—and simultaneously to address an equally important doctrinal issue—is to present a real-life case study. Gordan Fee and Douglas Stuart have written a mostly…
Read MoreThe Baptist Struggle – an unfinished fight
A popular perspective of movements shaping fundamentalism from 1880s to the 1920s, being a lightly edited transcript of a series of lectures given for the Adult Bible Fellowship of Tri-Cities Baptist Church during the spring of 2012 (Part 2) by Dave Sproul The “Roarin’ Twenties” are known for illegal booze, crime syndicates, and dancing the Charleston.…
Read MoreLove in the Truth
by Richard Flanders This article first appeared in FrontLine • January/February 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The year 2000 is bringing with it plans for Fundamentalists to cooperate in a number of evangelistic efforts. Area-wide revival campaigns, joint church-planting projects, and new missionary ventures are bringing separatists together. Fundamentalists have historically had…
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Christian Liberty Texts
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. This isn’t about some one text but about a category of them — those that deal with what we tend to call “doubtful things.” Passages such as Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8 through 10, and…
Read MoreChallenges Facing Fundamentalism in the New Millennium
by the late James Singleton This article appeared in FrontLine Mar/Apr 2000. The article displays great discernment about Christian problems. It is as relevant today as it was twelve years ago. It was said that Rip Van Winkle slept through the American Revolution. Today we face a cultural crisis that began in the last few…
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