Archive for September 2015
Conscience and Disobedience
Wally Morris The human conscience is a pesky part of all of us. Our conscience seems to interfere with our lives at the most inconvenient times and create (or make us aware of) knotty ethical problems which often do not have easy or simple answers. The Bible tells us that our conscience can be convicted,…
Read MoreIndependence Is Not Isolation: Baptist Networks, Past and Present
Greg Linscott This article first appeared in the Baptist Bulletin Magazine, a publication of the General Association of Regular Baptists. We republish it here as a matter of interest to our readers and by permission of the author and original publisher. Baptist fundamentalism was in decay and decline. Conservatives were fracturing away from one another,…
Read MoreMuslims in America
Bob Rutledge According to Reasoning from the Scriptures with Muslims (Ron Rhodes, Harvest House Publishers, 2002), in 1990 only thirty mosques were located in the United States; now there are over three thousand, with roughly one new mosque opening every week. As you can see, the Muslim population in the United States and Canada is…
Read MoreIslam and Christianity
Compared and Contrasted [The following summary, published in FrontLine March/April 2011 is offered as an aide to understanding as Islam continues in the news to this day. – ed.] Basics ISLAM CHRISTIANITY Meaning of the name Submission to the will of Allah The practice of faith of believers in Jesus Christ Name of a…
Read MoreHome Missions: Interview with Bob Thompson of BHM (3)
Don Johnson Recently, I sat down with Bob Thompson, director of Baptist Home Missions, a small independent Baptist mission board devoted to church planting in North America. This aspect of mission work is often overlooked by the attention given to foreign missions, but it is vital for the church to replicate itself both on the…
Read MoreHome Missions: Interview with Bob Thompson of BHM (2)
Don Johnson Recently, I sat down with Bob Thompson, director of Baptist Home Missions, a small independent Baptist mission board devoted to church planting in North America. This aspect of mission work is often overlooked by the attention given to foreign missions, but it is vital for the church to replicate itself both on the…
Read MoreHome Missions: Interview with Bob Thompson of BHM (1)
Don Johnson Recently, I sat down with Bob Thompson, director of Baptist Home Missions, a small independent Baptist mission board devoted to church planting in North America. This aspect of mission work is often overlooked by the attention given to foreign missions, but it is vital for the church to replicate itself both on the…
Read MoreAn Overwhelming Minority
Doug McLachlan Between the two vast eternities of past and future, we have our little moment of time, our little vapor of life! What are we going to do with it? As believers we should feel a compulsion to belong to a minority that accomplishes astonishing things for God at the end of the twentieth…
Read MoreCultural Fundamentalist
Frank Bumpus I was speaking in a conference when a dear lady came to me about a letter she had received. Just a week before, she had sat in the auditorium of a church with a rich heritage — a church that in years past had gathered thousands of people Sunday after Sunday to hear…
Read MoreThe Modern Tongues Movement
J. B. Williams The following article was published by Faith for the Family in the November / December 1974 issue. It is republished here by permission. We at Proclaim & Defend believe it is important to understand the long-held biblical argument against the errors of the so-called Charismatic Movement. These views are rooted in the…
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