Tag: Baptism

"Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee," &c.--Rev. 3:10. 1. There is a range of mountains, the highest in Europe, extending from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean Seas, and separating Italy from France, Switzerland, and Germany. The principality of Piedmont derive ...

"Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." --Rev. 3: 8. 1. The kingdom of Bohemia is, in point of territorial surface, the most elevated ground, the most mountainous, and by nature the strongest in Germany. The country is about three hundred miles long, and two hundred an...

"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world," &c.--Col. 2:8. 1. By the oriental churches are intended those communities of Christians formed by the apostles and their successors, in those parts of Asia situated i...

Updated April 22, 2000 (first published January 15, 2000) (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368,) - I have often been asked to recommend books on Baptist church history, and the following select bibliography is offered to assist those wh...

"I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy," &c.--Rev. 11:3,4. 1. Taking the general features of this prophecy, it appears to have had a more exact accomplishment in the Albigensian and Waldensian churches, than in any other statement of religious communities on record. Th...

1. A Psalm Of Solomon. 1 1 I cried unto the Lord when I was in distress [ ], Unto God when sinners assailed. 2 Suddenly the alarm of war was heard before me; (I said), He will hearken to me, for I am full of righteousness. 3 I thought in my heart that I was full of righteousness, Because I was well...

Updated April 22, 2000 (first published January 15, 2000) (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368,) - I have often been asked to recommend books on Baptist church history, and the following select bibliography is offered to assist those wh...

Updated January 24, 2007 (first published February 8, 1999; previously updated August 9, 2005) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, s...

Part I: New Evangelicalism - Its HistoryPart II: New Evangelicalism - Its ChracteristicsPart III: New Evangelicalism - Its FruitsThe following is part three of a three-part article, first published in 1995 under the title of Fundamentalism, Modernism, and New-Evangelicalism. THE APOSTATE FRUIT OF NE ...

Part 1Part 2Part 1 The following article by John L. Waller is from The Western Baptist Review, Vol. IV. No. 5, Frankfort, Ky., January, 1849 -- Even during the world’s midnight, when the dark cloud of papal superstition was spread in blackness over the moral sky of the civilized nations, here and th...

"I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith," &c.-Rev. 2:13. 1. This passage given by John is so graphic of the situation and circumstances of the NOVATIAN and PATERINE churches, that we are constrained to al...

John's Background He is called the Baptist Matthew 3:1 and the baptiser Mark 6:14 to distinguish him from other John's and emphasise the distinctive ministry which he had. He was born about 7 B.C. to elderly parents named Zechariah and Elizabeth. John was raised in the priestly line of Aaron on his ...