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Beware the Big Orange Truck

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Most of you have seen the Big Orange Truck. It’s driven by a pastor who goes by ReglerJoe. He is still an Independent Fundamental Baptist, yet he is driving toward reform. He has been learning and studying and growing in his understanding of Scripture.

If he never leaves the IFB movement and if he never wholeheartedly embraces Reformed Theology or any other point I feel strongly on, at the end of the day I really don’t care. I’m just glad he is thinking and growing and studying. (For the record, the solution, for anyone struggling with things  related to  the IFB movement, is not necessarily or even not often, to jump ship.)

But he’s also moving. His blog abandanoed Blogger in favor of WordPress, and having done that myself, I’m sure the move will result in a better blog that’s easier for him to handle. He doesn’t always post every week, but when he posts, its worth your time.

So if you haven’t checked out the Big Orange Truck, please do. In fact, his latest post contains an expanded version of his initial “list” of problems within Independent Baptist Fundamentalism. Many of those problems have been addressed here, and also on his blog. So check out his blog, but beware of that orange truck. It’s big, and it’s barreling down the road and picking up speed!

The Advance of God's Kingdom, Updated

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The Advance of God's Kingdom

About a year ago, I posted the pictures of a power point presentation my brother (Dave) had put together for a series of Sunday morning messages at his church. The series traces the covenants of Scripture and how they relate to the advance of God’s Kingdom. It is an excellent presentation and also serves as an excellent (albeit  simple)  introduction to covenantal theology (as opposed to dispensationalism).

Well lately I’ve received a few requests for the actual presentations themselves, rather than pictures of them, and so I updated the original post to include the power point files (which WordPress allows me to upload). The files actually take up much less memory than the pictures of each slide, and you are welcome to download them if you’d like.

Since I was updating the post, I thought I’d bring it back to the front page again as it really is one of my favorite posts of all time. If you’ve got the time, take a look at some of the presentations, just click on the picture above to go to that post.

A Gospel-Centered Marriage

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Some of you may know that my pastor John Piper has started a series on marriage. And this past Sunday’s message did a good job summarizing the previous 3 messages as he started his fourth.  I want to encourage you to listen to that message as it summarizes how the Gospel and the Glory of God are to impact our marriages.

Yes, it’s about marriage, but Piper covers a lot of ground with this message. And the exposition of Col. 3:12-14 is wonderful. He calls for forgiveness and forbearance in our marriages, and this is all to be rooted in an understanding of and participation in the gospel. I’m sure you’ll be blessed by this message.

Read it. Lisen to it. Watch it.  

Note: you can rightclick on the last two links and click “save target as” if you want to download it to your computer and listen/watch at a later time.

Help with Modesty

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Recently I came across an interesting survey compiled by The Rebelution, a blog run by two Christian teenage brothers who are rebelling against our culture’s low expectations of teens. Their blog is an excellent resource for teens who are serious about pursuing God and serving Him.

Anyways, they did an onine survey of over 1600 Christian guys of various ages on the topic of modesty. The goal was to assist Christian women be a  help to  Christian men in the area of modesty. The survey allowed men to anonymously point out how potentially harmful certain types of clothing are to them. The specific questions for the survey were brought up by over 200 different Christian women who raised them.

Its really kind of hard to describe in words, so you better just go see the survey results. This seems like a great tool to help Christian women dress in ways that help Christian men stay mentally pure.  

This survey is not designed to be a cureall. And obviously, men are culpable for their own evil thoughts, not simply “victims”. That being said, however, the survey still  seems like it  will prove to  be immensely helpful both for women themselves, as well as for fathers or pastors giving counsel to their daughters and others.

So once again check the survey out, it is first class and quite simple to use.

[HT: Sharper Iron Filings]

The Holiness of High Standards

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I came across a post today that almost blew my socks off! It is such an important topic, and the post was worded so perfectly. So I thought I should stop everything, and encourage you all to go read this post. Let me  introduce the post more fully, and then I’ll give you the link.

William Dudding, who is a KJV using, Independant Fundamental Baptist, is also a reformer. His blog, The Reforming Baptist, deals with many of the struggles that face fundamentalists. And although we don’t always see eye to eye on every issue, I have tremendous respect for Will. He doesn’t go with the flow, and he respects God’s Word. His posts are often challenging and enriching.

This post is entitled, “High Standards = Right Doctrine“. Let me give you an excerpt from the beginning of the post, and then send you off to read the rest.

I remember growing up as a strict Fundamentalist Baptist that I used to think because we held to such a high standard of living, that we must be the most elite of Christians; the ones most in touch with God; the ones who were the closest to genuine Christianity as God intended it to be.

We would look condescendingly down on another Christian who disagreed with any of our positions whether they be soul winning, the King James Bible, Dispensationalism, etc. The measure of correct doctrine to too many of us in Fundamentalism is the length of a woman’s skirt, or the shortness of a man’s hair.

Isaiah 65:3,5 “A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; ….Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.”

[Read the entire post.]