Don Johnson In 1920, concerned Baptists of the Northern Baptist Convention met prior to the Convention in what was called the Pre-Convention Conference. With this meeting the Fundamentalist Fellowship was formed and the opening salvos in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy were fired. We are reproducing here the messages that were preached at that Conference as collected…
John Marvin Dean, D. D. Director of the Dean Campaigns of Evangelism and Bible Study Editorial note: We are in the midst of a series of posts from the messages delivered at the Pre-Convention Conference of the Northern Baptist Convention, 1920. From the Conference the Fundamental Fellowship was formed which is today known as the…
Our promotional article for the latest issue of FrontLine was posted yesterday. Take a look at Dr, Vaughn’s editorial, it will give you a summary of our contents. This issue is one of the most important we have ever published. We’d like you to take a look at it. In order to encourage you to…
FrontLine — September/October 2016 | VOLUME 26 | NUMBER 5 Editorial John Vaughn In early 2010 an article by Ben Wright appeared on the 9marks.org website titled, “An Evangelical Fundamentalist Convergence?” Pastor Wright saw hope in such a convergence, but we use it here with little optimism. After all, “convergence” is the antonym of separation.…
George Stiekes And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? Joshua 7:10 Prayer is the essence of worship, devotion and communion with God and yet there are times when it is wrong to pray. We are exhorted: "in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your…
Carol Loescher John 12:46 “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness.” There are grades of poverty and degrees of darkness. At first, I took her for a woman who was mentally ill. She sat in the dust, rolled in the dirt, and gave no…
Don Johnson In discussing the interpretation of Psalm 44, my friend Mark Ward observes, “Psalm 44 doesn’t just express the nation’s feelings of frustration; it expresses their faith. They still instinctively reached out to Yahweh and not to other gods.” It strikes me that we can see this on display in Jeremiah 27 as well,…
George Stiekes Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. But WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD, if a man use it lawfully. I Timothy 1:7-8 The Ten commandments are all reiterated in the New Testament with the exception of keeping the Sabbath. Of course, Jesus…
Don Johnson The installment from Baptist Fundamentals this week is one of the shortest pieces in the book, an exhortation on the ordinances: “The Significance of the Ordinances.” As such it is much more ‘blog-length’ and perhaps easier reading than some of the earlier pieces. The author is a man who I know little about,…
Emory W. Hunt, D. D., LL. D. President of Bucknell University I need not enumerate them. In this company I need spend no time on the reasons why we do not include among the ordinances ordination, marriage, feet-washing, and the laying-on of hands. It is perfectly clear that from the earliest days the entrance upon…