Helping Church Planters

By Scott and Becky Swinton | May 20, 2014 | Comments Off on Helping Church Planters

Scott and Becky Swinton We moved here to the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of 2001 because the Lord had given us a burden to help a small but dynamic church in Pleasant Hill, California. Through a bizarre set of circumstances, which only an omnipotent God could have orchestrated, we were introduced to…

Not an Atom More of Sacred Service (2)

By Mark Minnick | May 19, 2014 | Comments Off on Not an Atom More of Sacred Service (2)

A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick Part One ♦ This is Part Two ♦ Part Three Pastor Minnick’s introductory paragraphs, repeated from part One: At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by…

Eclectic Web – breaking news edition

By Don Johnson | May 16, 2014 | Comments Off on Eclectic Web – breaking news edition

Interesting move by National Religious Broadcasters. Unexpectedly fundamentalistic of them.

Faith in Fact or Fairy Tale (1)

By Emmett L. Williams | May 15, 2014 | Comments Off on Faith in Fact or Fairy Tale (1)

Emmett L Williams Is Science Bad? Many Fundamentalists look askance at anyone with a scientific background. Immediately the theory of evolution looms in their minds. Since this anti-Biblical theory has been used to destroy the faith of many, this suspicion may be justified. But should the complete area of science be condemned because of the…

The New Face of Mormonism

By Ron Ehmann | May 14, 2014 | Comments Off on The New Face of Mormonism

Philosophy and Issues That Are Reshaping Her Image Ron Ehmann Fifty years ago, when church planters came to the “Mormon West” with the gospel and a desire to plant churches in areas where there were few non-LDS (Latter-Day Saint) churches, they found open resistance. Many pastors and their families experienced rejection and hostility due to…

May/June 2014 FrontLine

By Proclaim and Defend | May 13, 2014 | Comments Off on May/June 2014 FrontLine

The New Face of Mormonism Excerpt: Fifty years ago, when church planters came to the “Mormon West” with the gospel and a desire to plant churches in areas where there were few non-LDS (Latter-Day Saint) churches, they found open resistance. Many pastors and their families experienced rejection and hostility due to the gospel. In those…

Not an Atom More of Sacred Service (1)

By Mark Minnick | May 12, 2014 | Comments Off on Not an Atom More of Sacred Service (1)

A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick This is Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by over 8,000 and taught by some 600 instructors,…

Servant Leadership

By Gordon Dickson | May 9, 2014 | Comments Off on Servant Leadership

Gordon Dickson His boss had given him a sharp reprimand. He probably felt like giving up. After all, he had been asked to do something he had never done before. He was also instructed to go somewhere he had never been. The boss had even asked him to locate a person whose name even the…

The Eclectic Web: Will of God

By Don Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Comments Off on The Eclectic Web: Will of God

Our friend Joel Arnold published a series of articles concerning the will of God recently. We would like to highlight them today and also to call your attention to the best place to find Joel’s writings these days, a fairly new blog called Rooted Thinking. This is a cooperative effort by a cadre of (mostly)…

The Responsibility to Influence

By Tim Locke | May 7, 2014 | Comments Off on The Responsibility to Influence

Tim Locke As a young man I found that my concept of leadership had developed through the personalities that influenced my life. I have been under leaders who were direct, intense personalities, and I have had leaders who were gracious and gentle. In trying to decide what kind of leader to be, I often refer…