Striving for the Unity of the Faith for the Glory of God ~ Eph. 4:3,13; Rom. 15:5-7

Interview Details: Live
call-in radio broadcast
Date: Monday 3/8/10
Time: 6-7pm EST / 5-6pm CST
Host: Chris Arnzen
Interviewee: Bob Hayton
Subject: Reforming
Fundamentalism through
Reformed Theology
Station: WNYG-1440 AM
On-Line: www.rcnam.com
& click “Long Island 1440 AM”
 
I’ll be LIVE on the air with Chris Arnzen, host of Iron Sharpens Iron radio, on Monday 3/8 at 6pm EST / 5pm CST. Here is the teaser [...]

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In the eyes of many fundamentalists (and by that term I’m referring to the card-carrying, independent Fundamental Baptist variety), if you aren’t either a fundamentalist or an out-and-out liberal, then you must be a new evangelical.  ”Neo” is a derogatory term, mind you, not the name of “the one” who will save mankind, ala The [...]

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fundyreformed on March 2nd, 2010

 
The Standpoint Conference hosted by Southeast Valley Baptist Church in Gilbert, AZ (pastored by Joel Tetreau), just finished up last week. The conference was aimed at some of the issues that “young fundamentalists” have brought up concerning fundamentalism. I plan on downloading the audio, available here, and commenting on the conference in more [...]

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fundyreformed on February 18th, 2010

I continue to hear from readers about how the story of my journey out of extreme fundamentalism has been a blessing to them.  From time to time, my readers share some of their own stories.  Recently, a young woman named Becca shared her story with me, and I received permission from her to share it [...]

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Author: Matthew Paul Turner
Publisher: Waterbrook Multnomah
Format: softcover
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 228
ISBN: 9781400074723
Stars: 2 of 5
Hear No Evil is a collage of stories from Matthew Paul Turner’s past. A former independent fundamental Baptist (IFB), Turner chronicles his spiritual journey with special attention to the role his love for music played.
As a former IFB myself, I could identify [...]

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fundyreformed on February 4th, 2010

When I first posted “My Story” on my blog back in December of 2005, I didn’t have a clue about blogging.  I posted an enormously long letter, with some slight formatting changes, as one big post.  By God’s grace, that post has blessed my readers more than any other.  I’ve received dozens of comments over [...]

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fundyreformed on January 26th, 2010

Within fundamentalism, as in other areas of Christianity no doubt, there is quite a bit of confusion over fighting sin.  The thinking goes like this: if we erect a big enough fence, or hedge people in with enough rules, we will prevent them from falling into sin.  Sadly, this tactic most often fails, to one [...]

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fundyreformed on December 10th, 2009

I want to encourage my readers to take some time and read Jim Elliff’s recent blog post on a practice he calls “confessionism”.  As a former independent fundamental Baptist, I still tend toward a legalism of sorts that stresses performance and action to a fault.  And while I never reached the level of zeal and [...]

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fundyreformed on October 27th, 2009

The fundamentalist blog Sharper Iron is running a series of posts by Dr. Jeff Straub of Central Baptist Theological Seminary (Minneapolis) on the future of fundamentalism.  The series is entitled “The Fundamentalist Challenge for the 21st Century: Do We Have a Future?”.  The first post is quite good.
The post links to a chart describing the [...]

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fundyreformed on October 16th, 2009

Over at Sharper Iron, there are some interesting discussions of the role of rules in schools.  Mike Durning, in a 3 part series, argues that a heavy-handed, rules-oriented school can foster legalism.  Then Aaron Blumer, site publisher, posts a 2-part series defending the validity and value of rules.  My blogging friend Josh Gelatt saw in [...]

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