Essays, Videos, Etc. by others

I may not agree with the authors on every matter, but I find the following articles and essays very revealing. They reflect my  long held beliefs and observations about some important issues and personalities.

  1. The History of How Evangelism Was Corrupted Among Independent Baptists (June 13, 2023)
  2. Correspondence With a Missionary About Quick Prayerism (April 2, 2024)(David Gibbs declares that one church in North Carolina led 4,000,000 to Christ)
  3. Churches are At High Risk of Attack – Alert Status is Now Orange (8.5 minute video; April 25, 2024)(Speaking during an April 23rd interview with NBC Nightly News, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned of the heightened possibility of a coordinated terror attack in the U.S. The FBI is particularly worried about the possibility of attacks at large venues like churches.)
  4. The Decline of Mainline Churches in America (2023)(This video discusses the continuing decline of the denominations in America characterized as “Mainline.” A 21-minute video on YouTube from Ready to Harvest.)
  5. Supreme Court Rules Against Churches – this is our Fight (My thoughts: churches involved agreed that their authority was civil government, through the courts. Now their chosen authority ruled against them, and they want to fight. See,  A Warning From God’s Word to Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church (072920) and John MacArthur Continues to Dishonor God and Make a Mockery of Truth (081720))

The local church sanctified and cleansed by the washing of water by the word——————–A ministry of Charity Baptist Tabernacle of Amarillo, Texas led by Pastor Ben Hickam. "Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:1-3). ————————————Jerald Finney, a Christian Lawyer and member of Charity Baptist Tabernacle, having received this ministry in the Lord, explains how a church in America can remain under the Lord Jesus Christ and Him only. "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen" (1 Peter 4:10-11; See also, Ephesians 4::1-16 and 1 Corinthians 12:1-25). "Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it" (Colossians 4:17). "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church" (Ephesians 1.22; See also, e.g. Colossians 1:18).