fundamentalism by blunt instrument
A few days ago I was incapacitated while comments on an earlier post piled up. I’d like to respond to each one individually in the order in which they were received, so I thought I would do it in a post. I’ll close the comments on the original post and all subsequent comments (if any) can be posted here.
I have several comments in the queue for the previous post. I haven’t gotten around to digesting them or dealing with them because of a little medical emergency. I won’t go into gory details (it was gory) but I ended up in the hospital for the weekend after experiencing my first ambulance ride.
The docs were great, I am now fine, under strict orders to hopefully prevent a reoccurrence.
I do appreciate each of you (about 5) who have comments in the queue that I need to deal with. I hope you will be patient as I will get to them in due time.
A few observations from the experience:
I’ve observed a phenomenon in the erstwhile fundamentalist blogosphere. It’s called the game of pin the tail on the fundamentalist. It’s played this way:
The game is on right now at a blog post near you.
We uploaded an old message from Dr. Monroe Parker, former director of Baptist World Mission when he preached for us February 24, 1991. The audio quality is not great, but we thought some might be interested in the message.
Ye Must be Born Again – Dr. Monroe Parker, Feb 24, 1991
Our Wednesday evening psalm last week is the only one by Moses in the Psalter. This psalm was paraphrased by Isaac Watts in the hymn from which we get the title for our lesson.
O God Our Help in Ages Past – Ps 90, Jan 13, 2010
Sunday Messages
Our message from Romans 5.9 challenges the hearer to view salvation from the wrath of God as not merely our ‘escape ticket’ from doom, but as a motivation to mortify the lusts of the flesh and put off the sins of the inner man.
Free from Wrath – Rom 5.9
We continue with our look at Tyndale’s introduction to Romans. In this lesson we look at Tyndale’s summary of the first six chapters of Romans.
Our message from 1 Timothy challenges the believer to guard his good conscience in order to maintain his faith, part of successful Christian strategy in fighting the good fight.
War a Good Warfare – 1 Tim 1.18-20
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We hope you enjoy these offerings.
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Peter Masters has a little booklet called Stand for Truth. It is a good presentation of the basic arguments for the separatist point of view, first published in 1983, revised in 1996 and reprinted in 2009. I think it is worth your while.
Masters argues for secondary separation (he embraces the term) with the following points:
Scriptures cited in this section are 2 Jn 11, 2 Th 3.6, 14-15 with 2 Chr 18.3, 2 Chr 19.2 and Rev 18.4-5 added as illustrations.
The booklet is 36 pages long and sums up the doctrine of separation quite nicely. Masters deals with ten common objections at the end of the booklet.
I recommend it to you. We have ordered a number of copies for our church people.
From our Romans series:
The Love of God Commended (Rm 5.7-8)
Our look at Tyndale’s introduction to Romans:
Tyndale on Romans (3)
From our series in 1 Timothy:
A Charge Committed (1 Tim 1.18)
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Earlier in the week, our Wednesday PM look at the Psalms, Jan 6, 2010
The Meaning of Forever (Ps 89.1-52)
We resume our Romans series for the New Year:
Why Put Christ First? (Rm 5.6)
A continuing look at William Tyndale’s Prologue to Romans:
Our monthly communion message out of Leviticus
An Acceptable Sacrifice (Lev 22.17-34)
One of the interminable theological debates is the source of faith. Some insist that faith is given by God. Others insist that faith is what a man does himself when he believes. I doubt very much that a blog post by me will bring this debate to any sort of resolution.
What I want to talk about, though, is something I heard in a recorded sermon preached by a friend of mine. He said something like this (loose paraphrase from memory):
God gives you faith. He gives it to you in such a way that genuine Christian faith will lead you to persevere in that faith. They won’t be able to burn it out of you, you will persevere to the end.
And such like…
Well. This raises some questions in my mind:
The latest audio from the GBCvic
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