Posts by Don Johnson
Report from the 2013 FBFI Annual Conference (1)
The FBFI Annual meeting began Tuesday evening at Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, with a an excellent service filled with great singing and a message, “The Kingdom in God’s Plan” by Paul Hartog. The text was Romans 11.25-36, the subject was the program, promises and purpose of God in redeeming…
Read MoreBaptist Liberals and other stories
The Eclectic Web Our lead story has this headline: God too big for one religion. So says Baptist pastor Joe Phelps. He is the pastor of Highland Baptist Church, a church affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship, a group that has partner churches in the CBF and the more conservative…
Read MoreCulture is the Battleground
Don Johnson Is it just me, or are the issues we most argue about today in the separation debates largely focused on cultural questions? Whether the argument is over music, motion pictures, dress, the use of alcohol, or any other issue you care to name, the argumentation is largely a matter of “culture” and the…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013/05/06
It has been some weeks since we’ve taken our eclectic wandering around the world wide web. I’ve accumulated a number of articles that might be of interest to our readers, so today I thought we should take the time to organize and post them. Topics: Parenting – are we over-doing it with protecting our kids?…
Read MoreYou will be made to care
The Eclectic Web–2013.04.11 Gay Marriage: You will be made to care So says World Magazine’s Marvin Olasky: Already Christians are being harassed by fellow American citizens for not wanting to participate in a gay marriage. The time will come, more quickly than you can imagine, when you will be made to care. … Evil peddles…
Read More“Must Hear” Preaching–the 2013 South Regional
We apologize for the delay in publishing the messages from the recent South Regional FBFI Conference. Several of you have written looking for them. After editing and listening to them, I have to agree – these messages are more than worth hearing, they are “Must Hear” Preaching. Read on to get an overview.
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013.3.28
News of interest or oddity collected in recent rovings around the net. Relevance – we need to be ‘with it’, don’t we? Searching for one-size-fits-all religion As I mentioned before, I’m not religious. If I were, however, I think I’d have something more important to worry about than God’s relevance to me. I’d worry about…
Read MoreA Fundamentalist Manifesto (NW Regional Fellowship)
Perhaps my headline overstates the case somewhat, but I invite you to take the time to listen to the messages from the recently concluded Northwest Regional FBFI Fellowship meeting. Pastor Mike Harding was our keynote speaker this year. He delivered several outstanding messages. I’d like to highlight two of them in particular. The first is…
Read MoreAt Liberty to ‘Trespass’
Don Johnson Lately I’ve taken up walking as a means of exercise. My doctor says I must. Ten thousand steps a day sounded so simple in his office the other day! Reality is a different matter. One place I love to walk is a trail down below my home. My property borders on this trail,…
Read MoreProverbs 31 • How ‘my son’ turned out after all
Don Johnson I recently had the opportunity to teach a college class called Exposition of Proverbs. Proverbs is a much loved book, but I discovered that it is not a book without controversy. This was a surprise to me. The controversies of Proverbs center around the composition, author, and date of the book. Having read…
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