Apr 2008
What About Bluegrass?
Apr/30/08 11:00 Filed in: Music
WHAT ABOUT BLUEGRASS?
April 30, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
I received the following question from a reader:
April 30, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
I received the following question from a reader:
“You have dealt with CCM, Southern Gospel, and Rock and Roll in the churches. There is one area that seems to exist in the fundamental churches that no one pays much attention to. That is bluegrass gospel. CCM and rock and roll are easily discerned but bluegrass is far more palatable to the Christian and accepted among Christians. Bluegrass, like other forms of music, has its deep roots in the world no matter what spiritual word you lay down beside it. So often when people engage in this music the religious music is not enough so they start to go to popular songs that are secular. Godly music has never inspired me to listen to the world’s music. It seems to me gospel bluegrass is of the flesh and for the flesh. I have seen the same effects produced by bluegrass gospel as rock and CCM has produced. Attitudes, standards and respect for the word of God seem to descend. Is this something that ought to be in our churches?
Rick Warren's P.E.A.C.E. Plan
Apr/28/08 11:00 Filed in: Evangelicalism | Rick Warren
RICK WARREN’S P.E.A.C.E. PLAN
Updated and enlarged April 28, 2008 (first published April 29, 2005) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
Speaking before 30,000 members and attendees of Saddleback Church at the congregation’s 25th anniversary celebration on April 17, 2005, Rick Warren announced his plan for a global vision called P.E.A.C.E.
He told the crowd, “I stand before you confidently right now and say to you that God is going to use you to change the world.”
Warren’s plan is described as nothing less than “a new reformation in Christianity and vision for a worldwide spiritual awakening in the 21st century.”
Warren wants to enlist “one billion foot soldiers” to overcome the five “global giants” of “Spiritual Emptiness, Self-serving Leadership, Poverty, Disease and ignorance (or illiteracy).”
The acronym PEACE gives the means of overcoming these giants:
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Updated and enlarged April 28, 2008 (first published April 29, 2005) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
Speaking before 30,000 members and attendees of Saddleback Church at the congregation’s 25th anniversary celebration on April 17, 2005, Rick Warren announced his plan for a global vision called P.E.A.C.E.
He told the crowd, “I stand before you confidently right now and say to you that God is going to use you to change the world.”
Warren’s plan is described as nothing less than “a new reformation in Christianity and vision for a worldwide spiritual awakening in the 21st century.”
Warren wants to enlist “one billion foot soldiers” to overcome the five “global giants” of “Spiritual Emptiness, Self-serving Leadership, Poverty, Disease and ignorance (or illiteracy).”
The acronym PEACE gives the means of overcoming these giants:
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Windows and Doors
Apr/16/08 14:31 Filed in: Buddy Smith
WINDOWS AND DOORS
April 16, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
The following is by Pastor Buddy Smith of Malanda, Queensland, Australia --
When King David was crowned in Hebron there were many who came to his coronation. Among them were the men of Issachar, "men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment." (I Chron.12:32) The new king had need of such men. Men with clear heads and sharp eyes. Men that were alert and awake. Men that knew the times. Men that made practical application of what they knew and led their brethren. King David needed such men. In fact, we could do with some of them just now.
There is a tendency among fundamentalists to build churches without windows or doors. Oh, we have high walls and they are very strong, but we seem to have forgotten we need windows and doors in our churches. (Altogether too often, the windows have been scrapped for structural integrity. Modern wisdom says that too much glass weakens the church.) We need to rethink the loss of windows in our churches. Windows give the lost an opportunity to inspect the quality of the saints before they come in the door. Windows help us to "provide things honest in the sight of all men." (Romans 12:17b) Windows let the Wind of the Holy Spirit blow away our stale sermons, our lifeless worship, and the cobwebs off the pews. We need that Divine Wind to give our churches a breath of fresh air. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." (John 3: Last of all, windows let us observe our world and gain an understanding of our times.
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April 16, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
The following is by Pastor Buddy Smith of Malanda, Queensland, Australia
When King David was crowned in Hebron there were many who came to his coronation. Among them were the men of Issachar, "men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment." (I Chron.12:32) The new king had need of such men. Men with clear heads and sharp eyes. Men that were alert and awake. Men that knew the times. Men that made practical application of what they knew and led their brethren. King David needed such men. In fact, we could do with some of them just now.
There is a tendency among fundamentalists to build churches without windows or doors. Oh, we have high walls and they are very strong, but we seem to have forgotten we need windows and doors in our churches. (Altogether too often, the windows have been scrapped for structural integrity. Modern wisdom says that too much glass weakens the church.) We need to rethink the loss of windows in our churches. Windows give the lost an opportunity to inspect the quality of the saints before they come in the door. Windows help us to "provide things honest in the sight of all men." (Romans 12:17b) Windows let the Wind of the Holy Spirit blow away our stale sermons, our lifeless worship, and the cobwebs off the pews. We need that Divine Wind to give our churches a breath of fresh air. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." (John 3: Last of all, windows let us observe our world and gain an understanding of our times.
My Grandmother Was a Prayer Warrior
Apr/09/08 22:15 Filed in: Family
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A PRAYER WARRIOR
April 9, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” (Psalm 37:25).
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16).
My maternal grandmother, Julia Pollock (1895-1976), was a true prayer warrior in the service of Jesus Christ and I would like to tell you a little about her.
She was born May 10, 1895, on Sick Island (they called it that because all of the animals mysteriously died one year) near Lake Wales, Florida, only 30 years after the end of the American Civil War.
It was the same year that J. Edgar Hoover, Babe Ruth, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bud Abbott were born. That year the first motion picture was shown on screen to a public audience, the first comic strip appeared in a newspaper, the first X-ray was taken, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake premiered in Russia, the Nobel prizes were established, John Sousa composed the El Capitan march, and Sears Roebuck published its first catalog. Within months of Julia’s birth Tootsie Rolls and Tiddledy Winks first appeared. The vast majority of houses in America had no electricity, indoor plumbing, or telephones. The Ferris Wheel was only two years old. The Wild West had barely been tamed and was still only scantly settled. It had only been 26 years since the transcontinental railroad was completed; 19 years since Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Wild Bill Hickok was murdered while playing cards; 14 years since the gunfight in the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona; 13 years since the outlaw Jesse James was shot to death by a member of his own gang; 10 years since the last Texas cattle drive to Dodge City; nine years since Apache renegade Geronimo surrendered to the army; and only three years since the Dalton Gang was shot to pieces while attempting to rob a bank in Coffeyville, Kansas.
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April 9, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” (Psalm 37:25).
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16).
My maternal grandmother, Julia Pollock (1895-1976), was a true prayer warrior in the service of Jesus Christ and I would like to tell you a little about her.
She was born May 10, 1895, on Sick Island (they called it that because all of the animals mysteriously died one year) near Lake Wales, Florida, only 30 years after the end of the American Civil War.
It was the same year that J. Edgar Hoover, Babe Ruth, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bud Abbott were born. That year the first motion picture was shown on screen to a public audience, the first comic strip appeared in a newspaper, the first X-ray was taken, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake premiered in Russia, the Nobel prizes were established, John Sousa composed the El Capitan march, and Sears Roebuck published its first catalog. Within months of Julia’s birth Tootsie Rolls and Tiddledy Winks first appeared. The vast majority of houses in America had no electricity, indoor plumbing, or telephones. The Ferris Wheel was only two years old. The Wild West had barely been tamed and was still only scantly settled. It had only been 26 years since the transcontinental railroad was completed; 19 years since Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Wild Bill Hickok was murdered while playing cards; 14 years since the gunfight in the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona; 13 years since the outlaw Jesse James was shot to death by a member of his own gang; 10 years since the last Texas cattle drive to Dodge City; nine years since Apache renegade Geronimo surrendered to the army; and only three years since the Dalton Gang was shot to pieces while attempting to rob a bank in Coffeyville, Kansas.
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