FBFI Central Region Fellowship Meeting – Norfolk, NE

By Proclaim and Defend | October 1, 2015 | Comments Off on FBFI Central Region Fellowship Meeting – Norfolk, NE

For information about the host church, please click here. Sharing Effective Faith “That the communication (sharing) of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.” Philemon 6

The Blood of Their Witness

By Charles Phelps | October 1, 2015 | Comments Off on The Blood of Their Witness

Chuck Phelps Endurance is the theme of Hebrews 12. (See vv. 1, 2, 3, 7, 12, and 20.) In order to encourage the Hebrew believers to “endure,” the author declares, “Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin” (Heb. 12:4). Because the battle for faithfulness is a battle fought in every era by…

Conscience and Disobedience

By Wally Morris | September 30, 2015 | Comments Off on 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,…

Independence Is Not Isolation: Baptist Networks, Past and Present

By Greg Linscott | September 29, 2015 | Comments Off on Independence 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,…

Muslims in America

By Bob Rutledge | September 25, 2015 | Comments Off on Muslims 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…

Islam and Christianity

By Wayne Bley | September 24, 2015 | Comments Off on Islam 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…

Home Missions: Interview with Bob Thompson of BHM (3)

By Don Johnson | September 23, 2015 | Comments Off on Home 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…

Home Missions: Interview with Bob Thompson of BHM (2)

By Don Johnson | September 22, 2015 | Comments Off on Home 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…

Home Missions: Interview with Bob Thompson of BHM (1)

By Don Johnson | September 21, 2015 | Comments Off on Home 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…

An Overwhelming Minority

By Doug McLachlan | September 18, 2015 | Comments Off on An 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…