Posts by Don Johnson
Vibrant Faith, Believing Children
Don Johnson One of the most distressing experiences any Christian parent can have is to watch as their child abandons the faith of their youth. These tragedies are not far from any of us – names and faces immediately come to mind. The experience may be so common as to seem that this is the…
Read MoreWoe to Them that go down to Egypt for Help
Don Johnson Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! A major theme of the first half…
Read MoreParents Disciple Your Children
The Eclectic Web We noticed several articles in recent days relating to parenting, communicating faith to children, the faith (or lack of it) of young people raised in Christian homes. We are planning for some articles on the subject next week, but for now we’d like to point you to some of the articles that…
Read MoreOn What Authority?
Don Johnson Matthew 7.28-29 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. A big story came out the other day – Al Mohler speaks at Brigham Young University. Mohler isn’t the first…
Read More2014 FBFI Meeting–and other news
The Eclectic Web – By Don Johnson The annual National Fellowship Meeting of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International is to be held at Faith Baptist Church in Taylors, SC (Greenville area). The meeting will be held June 10-12. We will have more information as the date approaches. Faith Baptist Church 500 West Lee Road Taylors,…
Read MoreA dust-up in Biblical counseling?
The Eclectic Web – special edition Don Johnson The Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy of the 1920s was one of two defining moments of fundamentalism as a movement. A reading of the documents of that era reveal that much ado was made about what might seem to be mere disputations about words to the casual observer. A disputation…
Read MoreIs pessimism the new rule of the day?
The Eclectic Web – special edition Don Johnson Some are exclaiming about the dark days in which we live. Are we surprised that the days are dark?
Read MoreCatching up on the news
The Eclectic Web A lot of interesting stories hit the web every day. The list below are a few that address issues that might be of interest to fundamentalist Baptists and also may have slipped ‘below your radar’. The topics we cover in this of The EW are: Television and Culture History Persecution Gender Issues…
Read MoreYou Have the Truth, but does the Truth Have You?
Don Johnson While listening to a series of sermons by a friend from Ephesians 6, I began to meditate on the “panoply of God” (the armor of God). Specifically, my attention was given to that first piece of armor from Ephesians 6.14, “having girded your loins with truth.” All of the pieces of armor listed…
Read MoreConfusing Cultural Times Call for Spiritual Clarity
The Eclectic Web It is no surprise that confusion reigns across our culture – a cacophony of voices declare all sorts of practices good what the Bible and believing Christians have always declared bad. Such times call for absolute spiritual clarity from Christian leaders. Instead of clarity, we often get more confusion. Sex in a…
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