A friend of mine sent this story to me about the new fundamentals of the faith: I was walking across a bridge recently. I spied this fellow who looked like he was ready to jump off. So, I thought I’d try to stall him until the authorities showed up. “Don’t jump!” I said. “Why not?” [...]
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The New Fundamentals of the Faith
Posted: October 13, 2011 in Church Ministries, MusicTags: and southern baptist., Armenian, Calvinism, fundamentals of the faith, independent baptist, slacks, The Fundamentals of the Faith by R. A.Torrey, The New Fundamentals of the Faith
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Sermon Illustration: Praise Choruses Or Hymns?
Posted: October 21, 2009 in Music, Pastoral Theology, Sermon IllustrationsTags: Church music controversy, Illustration, Romans 14 illustration
I heard this illustration from two different preachers on the controversy of church music and thought some of you would apprecate it and may want to file it away for preaching on Romans 14 and Christian Liberty. That is what I did. When I heard it the first time, I told the preacher I would [...]
The Noncontroversial Topic of Church Music, Part Two
Posted: April 21, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", Church Ministries, Music, Pastoral TheologyTags: Christianity Today, Folk Culture, Fundamentalist, High Culture, Liberals, Mark Driscoll, Michael Jackson, Pop Culture, Rock music, The Radical Reformission
Mark Driscoll passionately believes the church must impact culture, and rightly so. “To be in reformission, we must embed ourselves in a culture and develop friendships with lost people so that we can be informed and avoid making erroneous judgments…. As a missionary, you will need to watch television shows and movies, listen to music, [...]
The Noncontroversial Topic of Church Music, Part One
Posted: April 20, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", Church Ministries, Music, Pastoral TheologyTags: Benjamin Keach, Charles Spurgeon, Charles Wesley, Dean B. McIntyre, John Calvin, Mark Dever's Polity: Biblcial Arguments on How to Conduct Church Life, Martin Luther, Rich Warren, The Purpose Driven Church
The powerful influence of music is seen in 1 Sam. 16:14-23 when David, the greatest harpist in Israel, calmed troubled King Saul with his music. “Aristotle said, ‘Music has the power to shape character.’ Satan is clearly using music to do that today. The rock lyrics of the 1960s and 1970s shaped the values of [...]
