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

Bob Hayton on April 14th, 2010

Nine Marks Ministries, has a new e-journal up.  The topic is deacons.  I read through the articles and thought everything was very helpful. Here’s an interesting quote.  But you’ll want to go read the whole thing.  The articles are fairly short but cover a lot of ground. According to the New Testament, a deacon is [...]

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Bob Hayton on March 29th, 2010

I was struck by one line of a very good article in The Christian Science Monitor this weekend. The story highlights the “new Calvinism” which is on the rise today, and focuses on Mark Dever’s church, Capitol Hill Baptist in Washington, D.C. The contrast between a biblical, Calvinistic ministry and the prevailing “Home Depot theology” [...]

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Bob Hayton on August 21st, 2009

From time to time, I’ll be mining the archives around here. I’m digging up Bob’s best posts from the past. I’m hoping these reruns will still serve my readers. Today’s post was originally published December 10, 2005. I wrote the following as a comment to a post by Jason Janz over at Sharper Iron. The [...]

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fundyreformed on June 18th, 2008

I’ve been distracted from my current series by some blog discussions regarding Mark Dever and fundamentalism. (I plan to bring my next post in the Land series tomorrow, Lord willing). Mark Dever recently interviewed Mark Minnick, who teaches at BJU and pastors in Greenville. I haven’t listened to the interview yet, but I did read [...]

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fundyreformed on March 5th, 2008

Nine Marks Ministries, a conservative evangelical ministry aiming to strengthen churches by emphasizing Biblical rather than pragmatic approaches to ministry, recently released their March/April 2008 e-journal. This month the topic was unity and separation, with an emphasis on fundamentalism. The journal was kind to fundamentalism. While it recognized a need to balance separation with unity, [...]

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fundyreformed on March 4th, 2008

In reading through Nine Mark’s e-journal on fundamentalism, I came across an audio lecture by Iain Murray (editor of Banner of Truth) on George Whitefield and Catholicity. Catholicity refers to a spirit of unity among the universal (i.e. Catholic) church, and not in any way to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. The lecture [...]

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fundyreformed on February 29th, 2008

I don’t have time now to get in depth, but I wanted to at least give you the link. 9 Marks Ministries‘ March/April e-journal is on the topic of fundamentalism and separation. Some of the very issues, I’ve been debating about recently here are covered (including article’s I’ve referenced by Albert Mohler and Wayne Grudem). [...]

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