Archive for May 2014
Eclectic Web – breaking news edition
Interesting move by National Religious Broadcasters. Unexpectedly fundamentalistic of them.
Read MoreFaith in Fact or Fairy Tale (1)
Emmett L Williams Is Science Bad? Many Fundamentalists look askance at anyone with a scientific background. Immediately the theory of evolution looms in their minds. Since this anti-Biblical theory has been used to destroy the faith of many, this suspicion may be justified. But should the complete area of science be condemned because of the…
Read MoreThe New Face of Mormonism
Philosophy and Issues That Are Reshaping Her Image Ron Ehmann Fifty years ago, when church planters came to the “Mormon West” with the gospel and a desire to plant churches in areas where there were few non-LDS (Latter-Day Saint) churches, they found open resistance. Many pastors and their families experienced rejection and hostility due to…
Read MoreMay/June 2014 FrontLine
The New Face of Mormonism Excerpt: Fifty years ago, when church planters came to the “Mormon West” with the gospel and a desire to plant churches in areas where there were few non-LDS (Latter-Day Saint) churches, they found open resistance. Many pastors and their families experienced rejection and hostility due to the gospel. In those…
Read MoreNot an Atom More of Sacred Service (1)
A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick This is Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by over 8,000 and taught by some 600 instructors,…
Read MoreServant Leadership
Gordon Dickson His boss had given him a sharp reprimand. He probably felt like giving up. After all, he had been asked to do something he had never done before. He was also instructed to go somewhere he had never been. The boss had even asked him to locate a person whose name even the…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web: Will of God
Our friend Joel Arnold published a series of articles concerning the will of God recently. We would like to highlight them today and also to call your attention to the best place to find Joel’s writings these days, a fairly new blog called Rooted Thinking. This is a cooperative effort by a cadre of (mostly)…
Read MoreThe Responsibility to Influence
Tim Locke As a young man I found that my concept of leadership had developed through the personalities that influenced my life. I have been under leaders who were direct, intense personalities, and I have had leaders who were gracious and gentle. In trying to decide what kind of leader to be, I often refer…
Read MoreSeparation of Church and State
Wally Morris One of the fundamental historical characteristics of Baptist belief has been the belief in the separation of church and state. In America, the phrase “wall of separation between church and state” was the creation of Thomas Jefferson. He wrote those words in an 1802 letter to a group of Baptists from Danbury, Connecticut.…
Read MoreAxioms of Separation–Epilogue
The late Dr. John Ashbrook, long–time pastor of Bible Community Church in Mentor, Ohio, wrote a little book called Axioms of Separation. The current publisher has kindly given us permission to serialize the book here on Proclaim & Defend. (Links to previous articles in the series below.) Axioms of Separation John Ashbrook EPILOGUE On the…
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