All posts on March 2009

In this issue: • Why an Association? • What Is the Association? • Who Controls the GARBC? • Constitution and Articles of Faith • Missionary Giving Hits New High • Fellowshipping Churches of the GARBC, 1945

In this issue: • How to Defeat Independent Baptists • Can It Be Done? • • Theological Pacifism • A Critical Hour in the American Council of Christian Churches • Studies in First Corinthians • The Christian American Home

In this issue: • Communist School in Convention Church • Convention Repudiates New Society • The Christian American Home • Detroit Bible Fellowship Votes to Become a Baptist Church

There were several Baptist churches in the same city. Their pastors were on friendly terms-had coffee together every Monday. And many of the members knew …

The New Testament records many activities of the gathered church. When Paul listed “a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation” (1 …

Much has been said in recent years about the purpose of the church. Some churches are intentionally guided by five ideas outlined in Rick Warren’s …

In this issue: • The Christian American Home • A.C.C.C. in Semi-Annual Meeting • Anti-Semitism • A.C.C.C. Resolutions • Studies in First Corinthians

by Robert G. Delnay Confessions of faith are teaching devices-living documents that convey truth in brief and precise statements. In the past 175 years, many …

G. K. BEALE, IVP Academic, 341 Pages, Paper, $26.00 If you’re studying the subject of worshiping anything that is a substitute for God, you’ll surely …

BARRY HANKINS, Eerdmans Publishing, 288 Pages, Paper, $20.00 Add this book to your reading of fundamentalist history. This reviewer knew that Schaeffer had a fundamental …

BRAD CUMMINGS, Infinity Publishing, 352 Pages, Paper, $18.95 Before answering 40 arguments that people use against the resurrection of Christ, Cummings (a member of one …

The General Association of Regular Baptist Churches is considering a minor revision to our Articles of Faith, the doctrinal statement that each church affirms when …

The following text shows the current and proposed changes to the GARBC Articles of Faith: “Section XIX. Rapture and Subsequent Events.”

Q. When one searches for information in Scripture on Jesus’ childhood, why do we find so little? One would think that more of Jesus’ example …

Q. Is it right to call Jesus the “Lily of the Valleys” and “Rose of Sharon”? A. Song of Solomon 2:1 presents a conversation between …

To many women, the burden of growing old is wrinkling skin, added weight, and fatigue that creeps up and steals your energy before your to-do …

Montrose is a small town where everybody knows everyone else,” Bob Kadlecik says as he rattles off some statistics about the northeastern Pennsylvania borough. “We …

Plato, in his writing The Republic, made this now familiar statement: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” It is a pithy expression that captures the …

In this issue: • The Pre-Eminence of Christ! • Rev. Milton Arnold Goes with Mid-Missions • Stronger than Fiction, but Not Stranger than Fiction • What Baptists Believe • The Blight of Inconsistency • Studies in Galatians • Studies in First Corinthians • The Christian American Home • Facts for Baptists to Face

Feature Articles Outgrowing a Landmark | Darrell Goemaat and Kevin Mungons Cutting Straight: A Look at the 2009 GARBC Conference Want to Change the World? …

Merwin and Jean Burman were married for 71 years and devoted their lives to planting Baptist churches. They passed away a month apart; Jean on …

To many women, the burden of growing old is wrinkling skin, added weight, and fatigue that creeps up and steals your energy before your to-do …

“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again …

For decades the American church operated on the assumption that it is the gatekeeper of the gospel. Most of the missionaries abroad were Americans. By …

Two thousand years ago the apostle Paul, church planter and pastor par excellence, declared that he was a debtor to those to whom he ministered. …

Many Baby Boomers will remember the Wayback Machine from the early 1960s cartoon television program The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. According to the Web-based encyclopedia …

Marriages are in trouble these days. Divorce rates remain high. Affairs and immorality abound. Many couples have unsatisfying relationships because of seemingly constant conflict, a …

The last time we tried this, Eisenhower was president. In 1954, when the GARBC Conference was held in Chicago, we all met together at the …