On Sunday night, Fellowship Baptist Church of Salisbury had the privilege of hosting the Bob Jones University Drama Ministry Team. (I kept referring to them as the "Truth in Action" Drama Team from BJU, but I think they have dropped that name.) |
Monday, May 19, 2008
Nice service with the BJU Drama Team
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Some spelling humor
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Evangelistic Unction
One of the well-known sayings of Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. was that "It takes evangelistic unction to make orthodoxy function." If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our HT: Elon Wood via email |
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Labels: Christianity, Evangelism, Quotes, Spurgeon
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Prayer Request
In much of Fundamentalism (including the church where I serve as Pastor), tonight - Wednesday night - is prayer meeting. I should have posted this earlier so that it could be included in prayer bulletins, since many of those have already been printed by now (depending on where you are located). |
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Labels: Fundamentalism, Personal, Prayer
Monday, May 12, 2008
Some Thoughts for Mothers
Kind of tired, but I thought I could put up these items that I found in relation to Mother's Day - bookmark them for next year. |
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Really??
This is a little bit old, but I think it is still relevant. I started writing it in March, but it got saved in draft mode and never finished. So Doran seems to be arguing that we can disagree on issues that are not directly tied to the gospel (music, head coverings, the Rapture, etc.) and still have some meaningful level of fellowship together for the gospel. I think that's different from what you (and I) might be used to. I probably live in an isolated world, but one of the things that I have seen repeatedly running around the internet in the last few years is a memory of some regarding Fundamentalism that just seems strangely distant from the memories of Fundamentalism that I have. I recognize that there are some different streams of Fundamentalism, but I seem to find these divergent memories even from those who are mainly from the same general stream. For instance, I don't know much regarding paleo ben's background, by my assumption has been that he spent some time at (or even perhaps graduated from) my alma mater or at least from one of its "sister schools" (NBBC, MBBC, etc.). I know that he also was involved in a youth ministry/publishing ministry that I found to be profitable when I was a youth pastor - and whose Leadership Training Course I used and adapted for training our youth leaders. While I do not agree with everything that organization did (and remember my wife and I getting up and leaving at one event that the leader was "performing" at a camp that I like a lot), I think it has been one of the better youth ministry sources available. However, when I think of those things, it makes it hard to imagine how the statement that I put in block quotes could be accurate. (In fact, it reminds me in some ways of the faulty memories of the Israelites who started to long for the "fleshpots" back in Egypt when things went a little difficult in the wilderness - they "misremembered" the conditions that existed in Egypt before the exodus.) Mainstream Fundamantalism has always allowed for disagreement on issues not directly tied to the Gospel. For instance, Ben uses the example of head coverings. Come on, Ben. Surely, you are not ignorant of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church where Dr. Mark Minnick serves as Pastor (and where Jesse Boyd, Rod Bell, and Les Olilla served before him) or the Free Presbyterian Church or even BJU up until a decade or so ago. To try to indicate that up until recently Fundamentalism would have viewed head coverings as something to be separated over is implausible and irresponsible. Are there wacko fringe groups that refer to themselves as Fundamentalist that might make such a thing a matter of separation? Sure. But this discussion was not that it was different from the fringe, but that it was different from the Fundamentalism that Ben and Bruce (Countryman?) were used to. Therefore, I ask - Really? Just my thoughts, Frank |
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Labels: Christianity, Current Issues, Fundamentalism
Saturday, May 10, 2008
I came across this poem somewhere and was bothered by its opening statement. See if you can tell what bothered me. |
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Baseball in Small Town America
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
A Nice New Feature for Blogger
Some of you may already be aware of this, but I just discovered that Blogger now allows you to prepare posts ahead of time and publish them at a future time. |
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Labels: Blogging
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Great Meetings - Ending too soon!
This last few days we have had the privilege of hosting special meetings at Fellowship Baptist Church with Evangelist J. Mark Kittrell. These meetings ended tonight with an excellent message on the wise and foolish virgins from Matthew 25. |
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Christians and Popular Culture - Who Said This?
Two quotes regarding "Christian" music and "Christian" culture. Who said them? When you make loving Christ sound just like loving your boyfriend, you can do damage to both your faith and your ballad. That's true when you create a sanitized version of bands like Nirvana or artists like Jay-Z, too: You shoehorn a message that's essentially about obeying authority into a genre that's rebellious and nihilistic, and the result can be ugly, fake, or just limp. It's always been a stretch to defend Christian pop culture as the path to eternal salvation. Now, they may have to face up to the fact that it's more like an eternal oxymoron. Just for you to guess, Frank |
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Labels: Christianity, Culture War, Current Issues
Monday, May 05, 2008
Good sermons by Evangelist Mark Kittrell
Tonight we had our second night of Special Meetings with Evangelist Mark Kittrell. Tonight, Brother Kittrell preached on 1 Corinthians 1 and dealt with the need to be a mature church in Christ. |
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Labels: Fellowship Baptist Church, Sermons, Special Meetings
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Good Start of Special Meetings with Evangelist Mark Kittrell
Today, Fellowship Baptist Church of Salisbury began Special Meetings with Evangelist Mark Kittrell. |
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
Some additional thoughts regarding evaluations
I meant to include this in my original post, but I was getting a little long and I am planning on sending that article to a Pastor friend of mine who asked more for some devotional type articles for a church newsletter he is starting and I wanted to stay under the 800 word limit he recommended. |
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Labels: Bible Interpretation, Devotional
Some thoughts about evaluations
Recently, I was once again studying the life of one of my favorite Bible characters and became intrigued by a little description that was given concerning his life. I had notice the expression many times (in fact, I even have a sermon which uses part of the expression as part of the title), but as I thought about the expression again, my mind went in a different direction than normal. |
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