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David Brooks of the New York Times on Fundamentalism and Religion
David Brooks, one of the moderates on the op-ed page of the New York Times, wrote on January 8 within the context of the murders of the French satirists this last week: Moreover, provocateurs and ridiculers expose the stupidity of the fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are people who take everything literally. They are incapable of multiple viewpoints. […]
Hannah W. Smith, Universalism, and an Unholy and Unhappy Life: part 6 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Judging by her unhappy and un-Christian marriage and the fact that none […]
Is There Any Spiritual Authority Outside of a Church and Other than the Lord Jesus Christ?
Once upon a time, some people outside of First Baptist of Hammond warned about Jack Hyles. Hyles had worked his situation to insulate against outside interference. He had established a strong grip of pastoral authority, even when it was obvious to anyone that he was long disqualified from the office. When some attempted intervention with […]
Hannah W. Smith, Inner Light and Biblical Misinterpretation; part 5 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Hannah, as a natural concomitant of her continuationism and Quakerism, believed in […]
A Door to Door Evangelism Encounter
Read part one. Don’t try to convince yourself that door-to-door means “shoving it down people’s throats,” a sales pitch, or the enemy of evangelizing your circles of influence. It doesn’t. Door-to-door is sowing the seed on every single plot of ground, searching every square inch for the lost coin, sheep, and son, and making […]
Door-to-Door Evangelism: Are There Better Ways to Evangelize than Evangelizing?
Imagine a method of evangelism where almost everyone enjoyed the encounter. Sounds like heaven. Is there a comfortable manner for a root canal? Asleep. But you’ve got to be conscious to receive the gospel. Proponents of Jesus asked why so few were saved? He said they would not strive (agonizomai) to enter the narrow gate. […]
Hannah W. Smith, Sign Gifts and Pentecostal Roots: part 4 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “In line with the Quaker background she shared with her husband, both […]
Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?
Through my 27+ years of pastoring, the question of the title of this post has arisen from several individuals on different occasions. I think it is a good question. It falls under “prove all things” (1 Thess 5:21). So let’s begin first with the meetings of a church. I’ll approach that with the regulative principle […]
American Idol
Everyone believes in something, either the true God or an idol. The first of God’s ten commandments warns against and forbids idols. Idols are whatever Satan and the world system offers as a replacement to God. The Apostle Paul in Romans 1 says men suppress God out of rebellion. The Apostle Peter in 2 Peter […]
Hannah W. Smith, Quakerism, and Self-Examination rejected; part 3 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Hannah was able, in part, to continue to preach the Higher Life […]
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