Archive for August 2013
A Ministry of Necessary Controversy (2)
Mark Minnick This is Part Two of four parts • One • Three • Four In Part One, Dr. Minnick introduces Benjamin Keach and some of the features of his life and times which produced Benjamin Keach, the controversialist. Tempering the Metal Although experiencing little trouble initially, the young Baptist preacher drew the government’s ire…
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David Burggraff “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage . . . but ye have received the Spirit of adoption” (Romans 8:15). In Romans 8:14–17 Paul is introducing us to one of the great but sometimes neglected metaphors for the Christian’s relationship to God. Here he describes the Christian as adopted into the…
Read MoreThe Long Goodbye
Mike Fair Two weeks ago my dad was still at home talking and eating and doing most things for himself. Now he was in the hospital, and we were being forced to think about things that heretofore had been merely philosophical. It’s hard to be sure when we noticed that Daddy was having trouble remembering…
Read MoreWitnessing with Tracts
Ruth Bumgardner I trusted Christ as my Savior at the age of 29 after reading the Bible for nearly two years. Now, as I approach the age of 53, I look back and sadly reflect that in my whole lifetime I received only one gospel tract, and that from a 16-year-old boy only three years…
Read MoreThe Wrong Bridegroom
Doris Fisher Harris The Associated Press carried this story from the Times of India: It was a double wedding. The beautiful brides were veiled. The traditional Hindu ceremony of circling a fire seven times with the groom was carried out in a lawful manner. But when the veils were lifted, the brides realized to their…
Read MoreA Ministry of Necessary Controversy
Mark Minnick This is Part One of four parts • Two • Three • Four Lying here open beside me is a precious volume published in 1694. A Golden Mine Opened contains 40 stirring messages on the mediatorial work of the Lord Jesus Christ. My volume has passed through many hands over the last 300 years, including several generations of Halls,…
Read MoreCounteracting Hero Worship: reevaluating Bonhoeffer
Don Johnson Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a figure often touted by evangelicals as a Christian martyr. He was the German pastor who was executed by the Nazis for his part in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Certainly some aspects of his biography are heroic. No one should criticize him for his character. Yet there is much…
Read MoreBible study and other news | Eclectica
In this edition, The Eclectic Web takes you to a couple of interesting links about modern Bible study, as well as other items of interest. In the Beginning Was the Word – Now the Word Is on an App “More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment.” An article about the…
Read MoreSeven Vital Volumes for Baptist Pastors
David Cummins One of the joys of an itinerant ministry is visiting pastors’ libraries. I have occasionally discovered books for which I have long searched. Usually, one of my first questions to a host pastor is, “Where is your Baptist section?” On many such occasions pastors appeared confounded. It is apparent that many have never…
Read MoreDr. Peter Masters on Secondary Separation
Article review by Don Johnson ‘Secondary Separation’ is a bad word for many North American Christians. The critics of fundamentalism use it as a pejorative in their attacks on separation in general. Many fundamentalists shy away from the term because of its opprobrium. Dr. Peter Masters, long-time pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Baptist Church in…
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