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New Heart, New Spirit, New Song
Proclaim & Defend is pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Doug Bachorik. The book is available now from Xulon Press. Also available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and The Book Depository (free shipping world-wide). For a taste of the content, see this article, an excerpted chapter from the book: Music and…
Read More“A New Song for an Old World” (Notes & Excerpt 7)
More notes & excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One • Two • Three • Four • Five • Six The church’s music was influenced by Jewish temple music. (Stapert, 152-153) “Jewish psalmody was word-oriented, a characteristic that set it apart from the music of the…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–Feb 21, 2013
This time The Eclectic Web offers links on a wide variety of stories: Church and the next generation Abuse charges from an unexpected source Interesting questions for Catholics The drama of log-splitting (from Norway)
Read MoreBJU To Host President of Hobby Lobby
February 25 – 7 p.m. BJU is pleased to announce that Steve Green, President of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., will share the remarkable Hobby Lobby story on Monday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Founder’s Memorial Amphitorium (FMA) on the Bob Jones University campus. Members of the community are encouraged to join the university…
Read More“A New Song for an Old World” (Excerpt 6)
More excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One • Two • Three • Four • Five The purpose of this series is to open our eyes to the similarity between conservative or fundamentalist views of modern music debates and the views of ancient church leaders. The…
Read MoreThe New FBFI Website
Today we want to call your attention to the recently renovated website of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International. Our site, Proclaim & Defend is the blog voice of the FBFI and we are happy to announce that the organizational site has been completely overhauled and has a fresh new look. You will find information about…
Read More“A New Song for an Old World” (Excerpt 5)
More excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One • Two • Three • Four “As I have observed above, the wedding festivities of Christians in Antioch were often more pagan than Christian. Christians were reluctant to abandon objectionable pagan customs at their weddings. These customs included…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013/2/11
The links are piling up in the inbox – time to offer once again some interesting and even intriguing links found in our mad scramble around the World Wide Web. I hope you browse through them, some of them are really worth your attention. (You’ll have to be the judge of which ones!)
Read More“A New Song for an Old World” (excerpt 4)
More excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One • Two • Three “The church fathers recognized music’s power to calm the passions (negative sense). But Evagrius meant something more profound than what ‘easy-listening’ or dentist-office music calls to mind when he said, ‘Psalmody lays the passions…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013/1/30
A few stories from around the web that might be of interest: Re: Louis Giglio With Ousting Of Pastor, Media Engage In Anti-Christian Witch Hunt “I’m not complaining about this depressing turn of events. But something seismic happened at the beginning of this week: as a country and culture we’ve crossed a Rubicon. “And that’s…
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