Dr. McCune, former President of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, is a former professor of mine from Central Baptist Seminary in Minneapolis. Dr. McCune’s study of the evangelical movement over the last thirty to forty years is well known through classrooms, lectures and writings. It is a great help and blessing to fundamentalism to have this […]
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Tag: Separation
The Thesis or Antithesis? (part 1)
The difference between the conservative and contemporary churches are becoming more evident. A recent pamphlet titled, “Is Your Church Going Purpose Driven?”1 lists 24 visible “signs” that begin to happen when a ministry is in the process of moving from traditional to contemporary. Many people I know who have experienced this kind of change readily […]
Biblical Separation
In my estimation, this book, first published in 1979, should be one of the classics for those who hold any interest in biblical separation. On the other hand, I have not seen Pickering or this book referenced in any articles on biblical/church separation I have read lately. Many of the same issues confronted by Pickering […]
Your Body: the temple of the Holy Spiri...
What! Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and ye are not your own? (1 Cor. 6:19). The Apostle’s question is as relevant today as ever, perhaps more so. Most of us can remember seeing pictures of the “heathen” in […]
The Purity Principle
Special Topic Books Two slightly older books on music that I wanted to read were Frank Garlock and Kurt Woetzel, Music in the Balance, and Leonard Seidel, Face The Music. Both are quite perceptive of what lay ahead in the field of church music. It’s my opinion that we should have paid more attention to these things. The Bible […]
The Down-Grade Controversy
This is a relatively small booklet which is a collection of the monthly articles Spurgeon wrote in The Sword and Trowel during this controversy including one related sermon. The Baptist Union was being infiltrated by German Rationalistic thinking especially in its denial of the authority of Scripture. Spurgeon was among the first to recognize the […]
Idolatry and Conscience
“In this connection it is not claimed that an unsaved person must come to know every phase of truth about the atonement of Christ before he is divinely prepared for salvation; but it is claimed that the Spirit proposes to make the meaning of the cross sufficiently clear to that person as to enable him […]
Things Indifferent
For the church, wherever she appears in human society, the constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field with the tares, but shall the […]
Facing Legalism and License With Truth
Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is. Winston Churchill The German Anabaptist Hans Denck said, “Therefore, as God wills, and so much as in me is, I will not have my brother as an opponent and my Father as a judge.”1 In […]
Biblical Separation
This is not quite an “Old Book Update” but it is a used book reminder! I first read this book when it was published in 1979, having known of Dr. Pickering for some time before. It was a timely book, coming before the 80’s and some struggles among churches over things like “secondary separation.” It […]