This is one in a series called 9Marks books associated with Mark Dever and others. Though I am interested in church planting, this is not my kind of book. McKinley writes from a personal, casual style as if you were reading a blog or, worse, a twitter. The progression of the book is his story […]
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A Word About Small Churches
There is no more satisfying statement to the New Testament believer than John’s on the Isle of Patmos, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day” (Rev. 1:10). That says everything to us. John was a believer who possessed the Holy Spirit, who, though no one else cared what he did that day, made […]
From Sabbath to Lord’s Day
The subtitle is: “A biblical, historical, and theological investigation.” This book was published by Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, OR in 1999 but was originally published by Zondervan. It contains 12 chapters by 7 authors substantiating Sunday as the proper day for believers to worship. It answers the most recent writers who advocate either a […]
Why We Love The Brethren
Love is one of those things that almost all people think they possess. Brotherly love is something that almost all believers would say they possess and practice as well as most Christians. We know God has loved the world of people, that believers ought to love other believers, and yet we also know that there […]
A Summary of Eutychus and His Kin
“The night was hot and muggy in the cramped upstairs room. I had not had supper; I was thirsty and because I was small, I got assigned to a tiny chair shoved against the back window. I was too short to see and too far away to hear. Professor Paul had forgotten his visual aids; […]
God and the Grocery Man
As I continue to read through all nineteen books by HBW, I’ve come to my first real disagreement with the esteemed author in this, his thirteenth, book written in 1927. Wright creates a typical context of early 1900s America. This, ironically to me, is set in Kansas City, MO and a small town northwest of […]
Will The Church Be The Church?
I have written much lately about the church being the church in today’s world. It has been my contention that the local church of Jesus Christ needs to be about doing the Father’s business and not the world’s or the government’s or the devil’s business. The local church of Jesus Christ is God’s instrument on […]
Merging into the New Century
This article appeared in the Baptist Bible Tribune, January, 1996. We are ready to pay our last nickel of time to the twentieth century. If the first ninety-five years are indicative of the last five, we had better fasten our seatbelts and prepare for warp drive. Learning to navigate the “information super highway” is not […]
Dancing and the Local Church
by Stephen R. Button This article is reprinted by permission from the October, 2003 issue of The Baptist Bulletin, the official organ of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, published by Regular Baptist Press. For subscription information, visit The Baptist Bulletin web site, or e-mail at bbsubs@garbc.org. What’s wrong with dancing? Why not use […]
The Church in Postmodern Times
This article appeared in the December, 1998 issue of The Baptist Bulletin. Has there ever been a time like ours, when the believer at one moment can be so encouraged about the prospects for the gospel and in the next moment be so disappointed? We rejoice to see the modernism of yesterday losing ground in […]