Our National Fellowship Meeting began tonight in Chandler, Arizona at Tri-City Baptist Church. We enjoyed a tremendous service with wonderful singing from the choir, special…
Stapert, Calvin R. A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. a review by Brian Collins…
by Jim Oesterwind One writer recently observed, “A divorce is like an amputation: You survive, but there’s less of you.”1 Another concludes, “Divorce, as a…
The subject of our current issue is missionary effort around the world on the Islands of the Sea – Yap in Micronesia, New Zealand, Japan,…
A few items of interest this week: Quebec: Canada’s Prodigal Province. Independent Baptists will not agree with many of the statements made in this article…
by Jim Oesterwind This is part 3 of a series, here is Part 1, Part 2. There is no denying the fact that a dramatically…
by Jim Oesterwind This is the second of a series. Part 1 is here. The opal is a beautiful stone because of the “play of…
by Doug Wright Andy Stanley’s ministry at North Point Community Church and its many satellite campuses has recently come back onto many people’s radar. Stanley’s…
by Don Johnson Today is a travel day for your correspondent, so we will have no ‘Around the Web’ feature this week. Instead, I’d like…
by Jim Oesterwind This is part 1 of a multi-part article. Part 2 is here. See also Pastor Oesterwind’s address at the Northern California FBF…
This week, we found an interesting chart on why pastors and churches are heading toward conflict that often results in pastoral dismissal: “Pastor’s Fight and…
(DISTINGUISHING GOOD AND BAD MUSIC) by John Mincy It would be an understatement to say that music is dividing all kinds of churches in this…
These items caught our interest this week: Nikki Haley on Faith – the governor of South Carolina was raised Sikh, claims now to be a…
by Jim Oesterwind Inclusive language is all the rage, these days. In everything from your local newspaper to your grammar checker in your word processor,…
by Pastor Douglas B. Wright I am preaching through I Timothy and have come to a passage often used and abused by proponents on both…
From the ‘items you may have missed’ category: In keeping with our recent theme on alcohol, LaShawn Barber writes in World Magazine about sobriety. (Article…
by Jim Oesterwind For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we…
submitted by Don Johnson (HT: Pastor Sam Souza, Brandon, Manitoba) One of the unending debates is over the meaning of worldliness and how concerned we…
