Christian Living

This article was inspired by three spoken words. Recently, while in the midst of a three-mile run around my neighborhood (part of a personal dedication to physical fitness that has miraculously lasted two months and counting), I found my pace slackening on an uphill stretch, which has continually gotten the best of me. It’s that part of a run when you start to ask yourself rhetorical questions to justify a lesser effort.

In many conservative gospel-preaching churches, the only thing rarer than drums is Psalms singing. This seems particularly odd in view of the fact that most of these churches insist on musical worship that is biblical, that is deeply rooted in history, and that has stood the test of time. What songs are more biblical, more historically rooted, and more timeless than the 150 songs that God Himself breathed out more than 2,000 years ago?

Modern Fundamentalism has not been widely known for its contribution to biblical scholarship. Nor has it been known for attracting or retaining a great number of men with scholarly instincts. Perhaps a major reason for this is that there are few fundamentalist institutions of higher learning which provide high-level advanced training in the majority of biblical disciplines.

by Pastor Dan Miller

^{Editor’s Note: This article was reprinted with permission from Dan Miller’s book Spiritual Reflections.}

Angels have enjoyed a remarkable degree of popular appeal in recent years. Serenely mounted on everything from lapel pins to wallpaper to clothing—even appearing in the flesh on television—these heavenly creatures continue to intrigue.

At the beginning of January, I packed my bags and flew to Fortaleza, Brazil, to attend the five-day Baptist Mid-Missions Northeast Region Conference. The conference is for the benefit of the regional field council and gives its members an annual opportunity to fellowship, deliver progress reports, conduct business, and hear preaching in English.

Rescuing Fundamentalism from Secularization

^{See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.}

^{Note: This article is reprinted with permission from As I See It, a monthly electronic magazine compiled and edited by Doug Kutilek. AISI is sent free to all who request it by writing to the editor at dkutilek@juno.com.}

^{Note: This article is reprinted with permission from As I See It, a monthly electronic magazine compiled and edited by Doug Kutilek. AISI is sent free to all who request it by writing to the editor at dkutilek@juno.com.}

The message of the Epistle to the Hebrews is so important for our day that I have been rephrasing it and emphasizing aspects of it section by section. The next portion in sequence is significant enough to look individually at each verse and carefully consider what is being declared.

^{Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted on March 22, 2007.}

Read Part 1 and Part 2.

Many Christians see the intellect and intellectual activity as second rate at best. To them, the non-rational features of our being are more trustworthy, more receptive to spiritual things, and more alive.