Monthly Archives: April 2024

Bill Rice, who founded the Bill Rice Ranch ministry in the early 1950s, related a story of a girl going to China as a missionary. Once, when she was on deputation in a church, someone remarked to her, “You sure must love the Chinese people. The very fact that you would leave your homeland, yourContinue reading “Christ’s Great Commission”

Again, “looking out my kitchen window,” here are a few more informal observations of my world, which (as I have noted in my previous “Fundamentalism Today” blogs) is the theology and practice of historic, Biblical fundamentalism. There have been some shifts that are undeniable. To pinpoint some of the obvious ones—with neither advocacy for norContinue reading “Fundamentalism Today, Part 3: Corporate Worship”

What this post will speak to has no doubt claimed more lives than alcohol, tobacco, cancer, heart disease, war and automobile accidents—all put together. It is more dangerous than a raging river that is out of its banks, or a lightning bolt that is not grounded, or a hungry lion out of its cage. ItContinue reading “The Blight of You Know What”

Today marks the fourth year since I began posting this blog series, “You and God.” This is post #416. I have covered a wide range of topics bearing upon Christian living and am gratified that a few hundred readers follow these posts and read them regularly. It was a little over two years ago thatContinue reading ““Time Out””

It was a typically cold winter morning, that first week of February, 1981. The children were all settled into their classrooms, and moms and dads were at their workplaces. That’s about where the word typical will have to cease in describing that fatal February morning. At my desk in the office at Thompson Road BaptistContinue reading ““Father of Mercies, God of all Comfort””

Continuing my “table talk” discussion of the landscape of fundamentalism today, as seen through the eyes of this aged pastor who has been privileged to serve churches in the latter part of the 20th century and the first couple of decades of the 21st century, I want to speak to a few other subjects thatContinue reading “Fundamentalism Today (Part 2)”

I write this post and the next in a bit of a different mode; consider it “table talk” over a cup of coffee as an old preacher, not far from glory’s shore, shares some candid thoughts. I’ve given considerable thought of late to “fundamentalism.” It is, after all, a movement with which I have identifiedContinue reading “Fundamentalism Today”

Seven essential building blocks are listed in II Peter 1:5-7. Six of these we have already covered: virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, and brotherly kindness. We come now to the seventh, charity. Today, brotherly kindness and charity are often thought of as synonymous. Not so, though, in the Greek mind; and the fisherman-Apostle Peter wroteContinue reading “Add To Your Faith Love (8th and last in series)”

“Isn’t it strange that princes and kings, and clowns that caper in sawdust rings, and common folk like you and me, are builders for eternity? To each is given a bag of tools, a shapeless mass, and a book of rules; and each must build ‘ere life has flown, a stumbling block or a steppingContinue reading “To Those in Ministry”