We enjoyed tremendous services and other sessions at our recent annual meeting, held at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, SC. You can find audio and video for our sessions here (not all sessions recorded in video). One of our afternoon panel discussions featured a worthy question for our panelists, “Why join the FBFI?” Our…
Read More(Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.) A few years ago, our family relocated here in Folsom. In our search for new housing, we read contracts and rental home requirements. We looked within documents for a full disclosure of our responsibilities for payment and requirements for living. Full disclosure helps us make wise and…
Read More“Mommy, let’s get this book!” My three-year-old daughter exclaimed as she pulled a sparkly pink book about drag queens off the library shelf. Visit the library these days, and you’ll quickly find that the children’s section is unashamedly promoting the youngest readers to accept an unbiblical worldview concerning gender and sexuality. Marty Machowski’s book, God…
Read MoreMy grandfather was saved as an adult. After he died, a written account of his salvation story circulated among our family members. We did not question his salvation, we just did not know how and when that happened. I no longer have that account available to me, but I remember that he was a…
Read MorePraise ye the Lord. Praise ye the name of the Lord; praise Him, O ye servants of the Lord. Psalm 135:1 In Children’s Sunday School, we told the children that we were going to teach them how to sing in the Jewish language – Hebrew. Then we all sang this very familiar chorus. “Hallelu, hallelu,…
Read MoreThe Bible’s account of the Creation and Fall defines many areas of human interest. One of the areas it affects most is human sex and gender. The opening chapters of Genesis establish a pattern that is both explained and applied in the rest of Scripture. What the Bible teaches about sex and gender is not…
Read MoreEach of us has distinguishing physical features, including scars that are simply part of who we are. Each of my scars represents a story, involving either my foolishness or something that happened to me outside my control. Our past is like that! It is marked by scars that are the result of our foolishness and…
Read MoreWe are in Greenville, SC, at Mount Calvary Baptist Church for the annual FBFI Fellowship meeting. We enjoyed a tremendous opening service, with great music and good fellowship. So many good friends from years of ministry are gathered at this meeting, and there are new ones to meet as well. This meeting is a highlight…
Read MoreIn a Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) article,1 Ben Witherington III says, “First, we know that Pharisees — including Paul, as a former Pharisee — did indeed believe in a bodily resurrection as the form of future afterlife. This was based in part on a certain understanding of Daniel 12.1-3 and the development of thought that…
Read MoreAmong the many books in my library is a very useful commentary on the book of Genesis by Lutheran scholar, H.C. Leupold. This two-volume exposition of the first book of the Bible contains careful verse by verse explanations of the text. Particularly helpful for the preacher is a concluding section at the end of each…
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