The "Violence Against Women and Girls" meeting, part of the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York, on March 12, 2026.
Friday Church News Notes
March 27, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 13
U.S. ATTEMPT TO DEFINE GENDER ACCORDING TO BIOLOGY BLOCKED BY EU (Friday Church News Notes, March 27, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The U.S. standing alone for biological gender is a major sign of the lateness of the prophetic times. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us” (Psalm 2:1-3). The following is excerpted from “EU blocks US vote,” Fox News, Mar. 23, 2026: “The United States stood alone at the United Nations in early March after a European-led procedural move blocked a vote on defining gender.. see full report
March 27, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 13
U.S. ATTEMPT TO DEFINE GENDER ACCORDING TO BIOLOGY BLOCKED BY EU (Friday Church News Notes, March 27, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The U.S. standing alone for biological gender is a major sign of the lateness of the prophetic times. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us” (Psalm 2:1-3). The following is excerpted from “EU blocks US vote,” Fox News, Mar. 23, 2026: “The United States stood alone at the United Nations in early March after a European-led procedural move blocked a vote on defining gender.. see full report
The Sabbath Yesterday and Today
March 26, 2026 (first published June 17, 2004)
THE SABBATH WAS FIRST GIVEN TO ISRAEL AND IS GOD’S SIGN TO ISRAEL
Seventh-day Adventists teach that men kept the sabbath from the days of Adam, but this is contrary to the Bible’s own record.
While it is true that the sabbath originated at end of the six days of creation (Gen. 2:1-3), that was God’s rest, not man’s. There is no record in Genesis that God gave the sabbath to man at that time. The saints in Genesis built altars, prayed, offered sacrifices, and tithed; but the Scripture is silent in regard to sabbath keeping.
Nehemiah 9:13-14 plainly states that the sabbath was first given to Israel in the wilderness.
“Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, .. see full report
March 26, 2026 (first published June 17, 2004)
THE SABBATH WAS FIRST GIVEN TO ISRAEL AND IS GOD’S SIGN TO ISRAEL
Seventh-day Adventists teach that men kept the sabbath from the days of Adam, but this is contrary to the Bible’s own record.
While it is true that the sabbath originated at end of the six days of creation (Gen. 2:1-3), that was God’s rest, not man’s. There is no record in Genesis that God gave the sabbath to man at that time. The saints in Genesis built altars, prayed, offered sacrifices, and tithed; but the Scripture is silent in regard to sabbath keeping.
Nehemiah 9:13-14 plainly states that the sabbath was first given to Israel in the wilderness.
“Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, .. see full report
Political Conservatives, Israel, and Daniel’s 70 Weeks
March 25, 2026
Daniel 9:24-27 - “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with.. see full report
March 25, 2026
Daniel 9:24-27 - “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with.. see full report
Richard Foster: Evangelicalism’s Mystical Spark Plug
March 24, 2026 (first published October 8, 2008)
The following is excerpted from our book Contemplative Mysticism: A Powerful Ecumenical Bond, which is available as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org. --
Richard Foster’s writings have been at the forefront of the contemplative movement since the 1970s. No one has done more than this man to spread contemplative mysticism throughout Protestant and Baptist churches.
Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline, which has sold more than two and a half million copies, was selected by Christianity Today as one of the top ten books of the 20th century. (For this review I obtained multiple.. see full report
March 24, 2026 (first published October 8, 2008)
The following is excerpted from our book Contemplative Mysticism: A Powerful Ecumenical Bond, which is available as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org. --
Richard Foster’s writings have been at the forefront of the contemplative movement since the 1970s. No one has done more than this man to spread contemplative mysticism throughout Protestant and Baptist churches.
Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline, which has sold more than two and a half million copies, was selected by Christianity Today as one of the top ten books of the 20th century. (For this review I obtained multiple.. see full report
Donald Trump
Friday Church News Notes
March 20, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 12
TRUMP THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST (Friday Church News Notes, March 20, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “The Madhi is near,” Israel365News, Mar. 10, 2026: “For hardline Shiite ideologues from Tehran to Dearborn to northern Virginia, the focus of America’s war on Iran is the arrival of the Mahdi, Islam’s awaited messianic figure, whose reappearance, they believe, will be preceded by the emergence of the Dajjal--Islam’s version of the Antichrist. And the name they attach to the Dajjal is Donald Trump. This is being preached on American soil, in American cities, to American children. ... Al-Masih ad-Dajjal--literally ‘the deceitful.. see full report
March 20, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 12
TRUMP THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST (Friday Church News Notes, March 20, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “The Madhi is near,” Israel365News, Mar. 10, 2026: “For hardline Shiite ideologues from Tehran to Dearborn to northern Virginia, the focus of America’s war on Iran is the arrival of the Mahdi, Islam’s awaited messianic figure, whose reappearance, they believe, will be preceded by the emergence of the Dajjal--Islam’s version of the Antichrist. And the name they attach to the Dajjal is Donald Trump. This is being preached on American soil, in American cities, to American children. ... Al-Masih ad-Dajjal--literally ‘the deceitful.. see full report
Bible Study - Look at the Fish
March 19, 2026
The Word of God is as silver, purified seven times (Ps. 12:6-7). Nothing is happenstance. The Bible demands focused thinking. It requires analyzing and questioning. It requires paying attention to every detail.
Charles Spurgeon warned, “Most read their Bibles like cows that stand in the thick grass and trample under their feet the finest flowers and herbs” (Treasury of David).
Howard Hendricks said, “If I could give students of Scripture only one instruction, it would be the same: ‘Look! Look! Look!’ The truth of God is in the Bible, but most people miss it primarily because they don’t look for it. They never put forth the time and effort required to answer the fundamental question of.. see full report
March 19, 2026
The Word of God is as silver, purified seven times (Ps. 12:6-7). Nothing is happenstance. The Bible demands focused thinking. It requires analyzing and questioning. It requires paying attention to every detail.
Charles Spurgeon warned, “Most read their Bibles like cows that stand in the thick grass and trample under their feet the finest flowers and herbs” (Treasury of David).
Howard Hendricks said, “If I could give students of Scripture only one instruction, it would be the same: ‘Look! Look! Look!’ The truth of God is in the Bible, but most people miss it primarily because they don’t look for it. They never put forth the time and effort required to answer the fundamental question of.. see full report
My Song Is Love Unknown
March 18, 2026
“My Song Is Love Unknown” is unfamiliar to most Baptists, but it is a powerful hymn that exalts Christ’s great love as seen in His sacrificial atonement on Calvary. It is a hymn about a love that is unknown in the sense of being beyond knowing.
It traces Christ leaving “His throne, salvation to bestow,” taking “frail flesh,” having no place to lay His head, making the lame to run and the blind to see, enduring rejection, rage, and spite, entering Jerusalem on an ass to the Hosannas of the people, His love rewarded with hate, traded for a murderer, yet going cheerfully to suffering, dying for sinners, sleeping in a stranger’s tomb.
The sacrificial, vicarious, atoning nature of His death.. see full report
March 18, 2026
“My Song Is Love Unknown” is unfamiliar to most Baptists, but it is a powerful hymn that exalts Christ’s great love as seen in His sacrificial atonement on Calvary. It is a hymn about a love that is unknown in the sense of being beyond knowing.
It traces Christ leaving “His throne, salvation to bestow,” taking “frail flesh,” having no place to lay His head, making the lame to run and the blind to see, enduring rejection, rage, and spite, entering Jerusalem on an ass to the Hosannas of the people, His love rewarded with hate, traded for a murderer, yet going cheerfully to suffering, dying for sinners, sleeping in a stranger’s tomb.
The sacrificial, vicarious, atoning nature of His death.. see full report
The Breastplate of Faith and the Hope of Salvation
March 17, 2026
The following is excerpted from The Way of Life Commentary Series, The Thessalonian Epistles, available from the Books section of www.wayoflife.org -
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:8).
In light of the imminent Rapture and the approaching day of the Lord (1 Th. 4:13 - 5:3), we are to put on “the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation” (1 Th. 5:8).
- This is the language of soldiering in the midst of spiritual warfare. God’s redeemed people are not of the darkness.. see full report
March 17, 2026
The following is excerpted from The Way of Life Commentary Series, The Thessalonian Epistles, available from the Books section of www.wayoflife.org -
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:8).
In light of the imminent Rapture and the approaching day of the Lord (1 Th. 4:13 - 5:3), we are to put on “the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation” (1 Th. 5:8).
- This is the language of soldiering in the midst of spiritual warfare. God’s redeemed people are not of the darkness.. see full report
Jerry Johnson
Friday Church News Notes
March 13, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 11
PROMINENT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVERTS TO ROME VIA DANGEROUS LITERATURE AND ECUMENICAL VENTURES (Friday Church News Notes, March 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Prominent Southern Baptist Jerry Johnson recently announced his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. Johnson grew up Southern Baptist, professed Christ at age 8 and was baptized at age 9, pastored SBC congregations, was a leader in the “conservative resurgence” of the 1990s, served as President of Criswell College, Academic Dean of Midwestern Baptist Seminary, Dean of Boyce College, and Chairman of the Board of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. On January 24, Johnson delivered an address entitled “A Path to Rome: My Conversion Experience to the Catholic Church” at the Tradition, Family.. see full report
March 13, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 11
PROMINENT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVERTS TO ROME VIA DANGEROUS LITERATURE AND ECUMENICAL VENTURES (Friday Church News Notes, March 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Prominent Southern Baptist Jerry Johnson recently announced his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. Johnson grew up Southern Baptist, professed Christ at age 8 and was baptized at age 9, pastored SBC congregations, was a leader in the “conservative resurgence” of the 1990s, served as President of Criswell College, Academic Dean of Midwestern Baptist Seminary, Dean of Boyce College, and Chairman of the Board of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. On January 24, Johnson delivered an address entitled “A Path to Rome: My Conversion Experience to the Catholic Church” at the Tradition, Family.. see full report
Drifting Toward New Evangelicalism
March 12, 2026 (first published February 5, 1997)
The following paragraphs are excerpted from the final chapter of Ernest Pickering's book The Tragedy of Compromise (Bob Jones University Press, copyright 1994). This important book documents the destructive nature of the New Evangelical movement.
"All over America and the world at this hour there are churches that are drifting into New Evangelicalism without the remotest knowledge that they are doing so. They are being carried along with the shifting winds of compromise and have long since departed from the solid biblical position established by their predecessors. Young pastors, many without firm doctrinal underpinnings, have led their churches to believe that in order to reach the masses they must abandon the strict biblical principles of yore and embrace more fluid and attractive positions. Many saints, firmly indoctrinated by former pastors in clear and uncompromising positions, are now bewildered and drifting.. see full report
March 12, 2026 (first published February 5, 1997)
The following paragraphs are excerpted from the final chapter of Ernest Pickering's book The Tragedy of Compromise (Bob Jones University Press, copyright 1994). This important book documents the destructive nature of the New Evangelical movement.
"All over America and the world at this hour there are churches that are drifting into New Evangelicalism without the remotest knowledge that they are doing so. They are being carried along with the shifting winds of compromise and have long since departed from the solid biblical position established by their predecessors. Young pastors, many without firm doctrinal underpinnings, have led their churches to believe that in order to reach the masses they must abandon the strict biblical principles of yore and embrace more fluid and attractive positions. Many saints, firmly indoctrinated by former pastors in clear and uncompromising positions, are now bewildered and drifting.. see full report
The Emerging Church: The 21st Century Face of New Evangelicalism
March 11, 2026 (first published September 17, 2009)
The following is excerpted from WHAT IS THE EMERGING CHURCH? available from the Books section of www.wayoflife.org. OUTLINE: I. What Is the Emerging Church? II. A Great Blending and Merging. It is difficult to draw a strict line between the two streams of the emerging church, because there is a blending and merging going on that will cause all lines to be blurred eventually. III. The Liberal Emerging Church and Its Errors. IV. The Conservative Emerging Church and Its Errors. V. Cain the First Emerging Church Worshiper. VI. Charles Spurgeon Exposed the Emerging Church.
The emerging church is simply the twenty-first century face of New Evangelicalism.
Andy Crouch calls the emerging church “post-evangelicalism.” He says:
“The emerging movement is a protest against much of.. see full report
March 11, 2026 (first published September 17, 2009)
The following is excerpted from WHAT IS THE EMERGING CHURCH? available from the Books section of www.wayoflife.org. OUTLINE: I. What Is the Emerging Church? II. A Great Blending and Merging. It is difficult to draw a strict line between the two streams of the emerging church, because there is a blending and merging going on that will cause all lines to be blurred eventually. III. The Liberal Emerging Church and Its Errors. IV. The Conservative Emerging Church and Its Errors. V. Cain the First Emerging Church Worshiper. VI. Charles Spurgeon Exposed the Emerging Church.
The emerging church is simply the twenty-first century face of New Evangelicalism.
Andy Crouch calls the emerging church “post-evangelicalism.” He says:
“The emerging movement is a protest against much of.. see full report
Post-Tribulation a Mark of New Evangelicalism
March 10, 2026
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, available at the Books and Courses sections of www.wayoflife.org. This is from the study on the history of the Conservative Baptist Fellowship. --
One of the ways that the New Evangelicalism showed itself was in the rejection of dispensational, pre-tribulation theology.
“By 1954 it was evident that the Seminary had introduced a doctrine foreign to Colorado Conservative Baptists--the accepted dispensational premise was being.. see full report
March 10, 2026
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, available at the Books and Courses sections of www.wayoflife.org. This is from the study on the history of the Conservative Baptist Fellowship. --
One of the ways that the New Evangelicalism showed itself was in the rejection of dispensational, pre-tribulation theology.
“By 1954 it was evident that the Seminary had introduced a doctrine foreign to Colorado Conservative Baptists--the accepted dispensational premise was being.. see full report
Feb. 20, 2026, Time Square, NY USA
Friday Church News Notes
March 6, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 10
WELCOME TO MAMDANISTAN (Friday Church News Notes, February 27, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - [The following is an expansion of a report from last week’s Friday Church News Notes.] New York City, America’s largest, has its first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who took the oath of office on January 1 with his hand on a Koran. On February 20, a gathering of Muslims crowded Times Square for the Tarawih prayers associated with Ramadan. When a Muslim announced they are “taking over the city,” the crowd erupted in chants of “Allahu Akbar”.. see full report
March 6, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 10
WELCOME TO MAMDANISTAN (Friday Church News Notes, February 27, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - [The following is an expansion of a report from last week’s Friday Church News Notes.] New York City, America’s largest, has its first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who took the oath of office on January 1 with his hand on a Koran. On February 20, a gathering of Muslims crowded Times Square for the Tarawih prayers associated with Ramadan. When a Muslim announced they are “taking over the city,” the crowd erupted in chants of “Allahu Akbar”.. see full report
The Glories of Romans 8:28
March 5, 2026 (first published October 22, 2025)
The following is excerpted from The Way of Life Commentary Series, Romans, www.wayoflife.org:
The sons of God are under the sovereign watchcare of God (Ro. 8:28). “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
- For those who love God in Jesus Christ, this promise is one of the most precious and amazing promises in all of God’s Word. Just 13 simple words in Greek; 25 words in English, only two of which are more than one syllable, yet the teaching encompasses God’s plan of the ages and eternal..see full report
March 5, 2026 (first published October 22, 2025)
The following is excerpted from The Way of Life Commentary Series, Romans, www.wayoflife.org:
The sons of God are under the sovereign watchcare of God (Ro. 8:28). “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
- For those who love God in Jesus Christ, this promise is one of the most precious and amazing promises in all of God’s Word. Just 13 simple words in Greek; 25 words in English, only two of which are more than one syllable, yet the teaching encompasses God’s plan of the ages and eternal..see full report
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