What a year it has been. Seems like one right after another I have heard of someone who impacted my life dying. John MacArthur was 85. Charlie Kirk was 31. Voddie Baucham was 56. They all died this year and they all impacted my life in one way or another. I never preached with any…
Church History
Pastor John MacArthur: Gone But Not Forgotten
“I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and teaching. For the time will come when they…
Paul, Division, Discipline, and the Corinthian Church
I’m currently preaching through 1 Corinthians on Sunday mornings here at Sovereign Grace Baptist Church. As has been my habit for many years, I like to start at chapter 1, verse 1 and go through the entire book verse by verse. The technical term for this type of preaching is sequential exposition. It’s the way…
KJVO – Not A Baptist Distinctive
There is no evidence that King James Onlyism as popularized by Peter Ruckman was a main view among the Baptists. I am trying to find a quote somewhere that would indicate they might have even been mild KJV Onlyists, but I cannot find it. I have looked in Baptist history books and other Baptist material….
J.R. Graves and William Kiffin
JR Graves also included an appendix note about William Kiffin, who he identified as a Landmarker in the book “Old Landmarkism.” Two things worth noting 1) Kiffin was a signer of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. He is second on the list in my copy. Graves would have known this. 2) Notice Graves…
B.H. Carroll and the 1689
“The Philadelphia Confession of Faith, adopted in 1742, and printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, is, with some modifications, but a reproduction of the old London Confession, adopted in 1689. It is the prevalent standard in 1800.” -B.H. Carroll (1843-1914) The Baptists One Hundred Years Ago
David Benedict and the Philadelphia Confession
David Benedict, Baptist historian who lived 1779-1874, wrote this in his book “Fifty Years Among The Baptists” – The Philadelphia Confession of Faith, published in that city, in 1742, was the standard of most of the oldest Baptist churches in this country, especially in the middle and southern States. This Confession was copied mostly from…
J.M. Pendleton and the 1689
J.M. Pendleton, A “Landmarker” writing about the 1689 Confession: Having indicated who should not baptize, I shall attempt to show who should baptize. Before I refer to the scriptural argument, I will presentwhat has been, as I think, the general views of Baptists, I go back to the Confession of Faith, put forth in London…
Arminian Baptist Churches In Baptist History!
The following is from the preface in John T. Christian’s Baptist History book, and is quite the eye opener for those pastors/churches who would be quick to “unchurch” a group that originated in Arminianism! “The question has often been asked: “Were all of the ancient parties mentioned in these pages in absolute or substantial accord…
B. H. Carroll on Fellowship With Those Who Teach Universal Church
(Q) Do you dis-fellowship your Baptist brethren who teach the present existence of “an universal, in visible, spiritual church?” (A) Most certainly not so long as they duly honor the particular assembly and its ordinances, as multitudes of them do, in spite of the natural tendency of their theory to discredit it. Many of them,…