Archive for June 2015
Our good host: Good News Baptist Church
Our host for the 2015 Annual Fellowship meeting is Good News Baptist Church of Chesapeake, Virginia, pastor Mike Ascher. Good News Baptist Church was founded in 1972 when a group of 18 believers gathered together to make plans for a new church which would commence services just four days later. You can read the history…
Read MoreChristianity Today’s Dangerous Response to Destructive Doctrine
Matt Recker Mark Galli, the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today expressed sadness that former CT editor David Neff has capitulated on same sex marriage. (Neff now states that he agrees with it.) In Galli’s piece (June 9, 2015) entitled, “Breaking News: 2 Billion Christians Believe in Traditional Marriage,” Neff is quoted as saying, “I think the…
Read MoreAnnual Fellowship next week
A sure sign of summer is the Annual Fellowship meeting of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International. For those who are close enough to make last minute plans, we’d like to encourage you to join with us at the Good News Baptist Church in Chesapeake, VA beginning Tuesday, June 16.
Read MoreWith Job in the School of Suffering
Layton Talbert God’s people can experience different kinds of suffering. First Peter focuses on a class of suffering that, humanly speaking, we do not deserve. We call it persecution — suffering for our faith in and faithfulness to Christ. Lamentations portrays another type of suffering that is deserved. We call it chastisement — suffering the…
Read MoreLead on, O King Eternal
Edited from the files of Grace W. Haight Guye Johnson Created in 1887 for the commencement exercise at Andover Theological Seminary (Andover, Massachusetts), this spirited prayer-hymn, with its “day of march,” “days of preparation,” “journey,” “conquest,” and “crown,” is appropriate for the graduation season.
Read MorePraying for Missionaries
Roger Bergman Player: “Say, Coach, who’s supposed to jump ball?” Coach: “Don’t bother me with details, just play the game!” Player: “But Coach, which offense should we run?” Coach: “Forget about which offense; just get on with it and win the game!” Win the game? If you were to overhear such an exchange, you would…
Read MoreReading FrontLine
Don Johnson As readers of our site are aware, one of the ministries of the FBFI is our bimonthly publication, FrontLine magazine. We regularly post from its archives here on Proclaim & Defend. We hope these articles are a blessing to you in your spiritual life. In today’s post, I’d like to say a word…
Read MoreThe Growing Christian
William Edward Biederwolf If you are sighing today for the ‘‘joy which once you knew when first you found the Lord,” it can only be because you have not been a growing Christian. Conversion is just the beginning of what God can do for a human soul. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they…
Read MoreBring the Books: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography
Mark Minnick Will anyone ever know how many biographies of Charles Haddon Spurgeon have been issued? Lewis Drummond, who authored the massive Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, lists nearly 40 in his bibliography, including the autobiography that Spurgeon himself started and his wife and secretary, Joseph Harrald, completed.
Read MoreThe Strategy of Multiplication
Mike and Gail Mestler Throughout Kenya grows a flowering tree with striking orange-red blossoms appropriately named the “flame tree.” The flame tree is indigenous to Africa, where it easily grows to a height of fifty feet and produces many clusters of flowers on the tips of its branches. A flame tree in full blossom is…
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