Missions is a Task, Not a Trip or Trivia

Pearson Johnson As we continue to pray for the needs of the unevangelized in the world, I want to take a break from considering the people blocks of the 10/40 Window and challenge you to evaluate the results of knowing about these gospel-starved regions. One of our Fundamental Baptist brothers, Randy Wilkins, on deputation to…

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Insight into Substantive Preaching (3)

Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In Part Two of this series, we offered the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. In today’s post,…

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The Good Shepherd is … the Lord of My Life

Dan Wokaty He Is a Jew But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Romans 2:29 In the area where I live—Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico— the word “Jew” has been ascribed…

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God’s Gracious Gift

Warren Vanhetloo God is a giving God. His giving is beyond our full comprehension. His giving is not an occasional decision on His part; it is characteristic of His very nature. He gives because of who and what He is, not because of who or what we are. God’s giving is of grace. None of…

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A Psalm from the Shepherd’s Fields

John C. Vaughn David wrote many psalms in many circumstances, but the 23rd is the most well known and most beloved of all. It was born in the shepherds’ fields and guides us into deeper love and trust for our Great Shepherd. We return to it again and again, not to look for previously unseen…

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Spiritual Sight: The Light of the World

Patricia Mondore The magnificent edifice towered far above every other structure in the city nearby as it proudly overlooked the harbor. Standing around 400 feet tall, the lighthouse was an extraordinary feat of engineering by anyone’s estimation. Even beyond its staggering height, it was also a scientific wonder with its light system that could be…

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Insight into Substantive Preaching (2)

Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In today’s post, we offer the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. Gospel Salvation Is a Great and…

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Celebrate Like a Christian at Christmas

Doug Wright Ephesians 4:17-18 seems like a strange passage for a Christmas message, but that was what I had chosen for a final chapel message before the Christmas break. The combined chapel was especially challenging since it included students from Kindergarten through the twelfth grades. To make matters worse, the chapel precedes the class Christmas…

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John Wesley—The Prodigious Worker

Sam Horn In John Wesley, God sent to His church one of her most prodigious laborers in the gospel. Wesley traveled more than 250,000 miles in the course of more than fifty years of ministry. He wrote or edited more than 200 works of sermons, hymns, and commentaries, and he founded the Methodist denomination and…

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Insight into Substantive Preaching (1)

Mark Minnick On the desk beside me lies a 1694 first edition of forty sermons by the early London Baptist, Benjamin Keach (1640–1704). Keach, one of the predecessors in the ministry assumed by C. H. Spurgeon over two centuries later, entitled his volume A Golden Mine Opened: Or, The Glory of God’s Rich Grace Displayed…

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