Posts Tagged ‘History’
Lessons from an English Cathedral
I am visiting in the United Kingdom for a couple of weeks, getting some quality “grandfather time” with two lovely granddaughters. In the process, we are dragging them around to all sorts of historical sites. They appear to tolerate it reasonably well, though I am sure they would rather do something else. One thing we…
Read MoreChristian Zionism
We should not let the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state pass without celebrating the role that we, as Dispensational Fundamentalists, played in the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. Modern Zionism began officially with the publication in 1896 of The Jewish State by Theodore Herzl. Herzl was a Hungarian…
Read MoreSpiritual Sight: The Light of the World
Patricia Mondore The magnificent edifice towered far above every other structure in the city nearby as it proudly overlooked the harbor. Standing around 400 feet tall, the lighthouse was an extraordinary feat of engineering by anyone’s estimation. Even beyond its staggering height, it was also a scientific wonder with its light system that could be…
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 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 MoreAs Then, So Now? (2)
Edward M. Panosian This article first appeared in Faith for the Family March/April, 1973. It is reproduced here by permission. This is Part Two • Part One here. Part One compared and contrasted the world of the first century and the world of the sixteenth, demonstrating many similarities between the periods. It closed with these…
Read MoreAs Then, So Now? (1)
Edward M. Panosian This article first appeared in Faith for the Family March/April, 1973. It is reproduced here by permission. Perhaps the two most significant periods in the history of Christianity are the first and the sixteenth centuries because of the revelation of God by the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the following Apostolic Age…
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 MoreFrom Downgrade to Downfall
A popular perspective of movements shaping fundamentalism from 1880s to the 1920s, being a lightly edited transcript of a series of lectures given for the Adult Bible Fellowship of Tri-Cities Baptist Church during the spring of 2012 (Part 1) by Dave Sproul If we do not learn from history, we are forever doomed to repeat…
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