http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/baptists/ en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:45:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2050131/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles? Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and Puritans Chapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger Williams Chapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode IslandChapter 4 - The Providence and Newport Churches Chapter 5 - Chaunce, Knolly, Miles and the Swansea Church Chapter 6 - The Boston Baptists Chapter 7 - New Centers of Baptist Influence: South Carolina - Maine - Pennsylvania - New Jersey Chapter 8 - The Baptists of Virginia Chapter 9 - Baptists of Connecticut and New York... Found at the Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2050131/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:45:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044990/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger WilliamsChapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode IslandChapter 4 - The Providence and Newport ChurchesChapter 5 - Chaunce, Knolly, Miles and the Swansea ChurchChapter 6 - The Boston BaptistsChapter 7 - New Centers of Baptist Influence: South Carolina - Maine - Pennsylvania - New JerseyChapter 8 - The Baptists of VirginiaChapter 9 - Baptists of Connecticut and New York THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS X. THE BAPTISTS OF NORTH... Found at the Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044990/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:58:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040903/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger WilliamsChapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode IslandChapter 4 - The Providence and Newport ChurchesChapter 5 - Chaunce, Knolly, Miles and the Swansea ChurchChapter 6 - The Boston BaptistsChapter 7 - New Centers of Baptist Influence: South Carolina - Maine - Pennsylvania - New JerseyChapter 8 - The Baptists of Virginia THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS IX. BAPTISTS OF CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK In considering the introduction and spread... Found at the Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040903/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:13:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038593/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger WilliamsChapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode IslandChapter 4 - The Providence and Newport ChurchesChapter 5 - Chaunce, Knolly, Miles and the Swansea ChurchChapter 6 - The Boston BaptistsChapter 7 - New Centers of Baptist Influence: South Carolina - Maine - Pennsylvania - New Jersey THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS VIII. THE BAPTISTS OF VIRGINIA No chapter of Baptist history, European or American, fills honest hearts with warmer gratitude... Found at Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038593/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:22:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037322/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger WilliamsChapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode IslandChapter 4 - The Providence and Newport ChurchesChapter 5 - Chaunce, Knolly, Miles and the Swansea ChurchChapter 6 - The Boston Baptists THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS VII. NEW CENTERS OF BAPTIST INFLUENCE--SOUTH CAROLINA--MAINE-- PENNSYLVANIA--NEW JERSEY As a wrathful tempest scatters seed over a continent, so persecution has always forced Baptists where their wisdom had not led them. The first American Baptist... Found at Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037322/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:53:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032297/posts Previous posts in the series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger WilliamsChapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode IslandChapter 4 - The Providence and Newport ChurchesChapter 5 - Chaunce, Knolly, Miles and the Swansea Church THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS VI. THE BOSTON BAPTISTS Fierce bigotry and intolerance did much for the ancient Baptists in Jerusalem of old, and this history repeated itself in Boston during the year 1651. The story is very simple. William Witter, a plain old farmer,... Found at Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032297/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031959/posts NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Despite media speculation to the contrary, three new polls show that evangelicals, including Southern Baptist pastors, support Republican John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama by wide margins. The polls were released as Obama courts Christian leaders and voters in hopes of cutting into what has traditionally been a Republican stronghold. During the Democratic primary, Obama's campaign released a flyer in conservative Kentucky showing him at a pulpit, with a cross in the background, quoting him as saying, "I won't be fulfilling God's will unless I go out and do the Lord's work." The flyer called Obama a "committed... Baptist Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031959/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:59:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029273/posts INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Under pressure to fight child sex abuse, the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee said Tuesday that the denomination should not create its own database to help churches identity predators or establish an office to field abuse claims. The report decried sexual abuse as reprehensible and a sin. But the Southern Baptist principle of local church autonomy means it's up to individual churches _ and not the convention _ to screen employees and take action against offenders, the committee said. KSLChannel 5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029273/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:21:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028448/posts Previous posts in the series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger WilliamsChapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode IslandChapter 4 - The Providence and Newport Churches THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS V. CHAUNCE--KNOLLYS--MILES AND THE SWANSEA CHURCH Several hints are found in the early colonial writings, that an individual here and there amongst the colonists inclined to Baptist views in relation to infant baptism and immersion before the immersion of Williams. Governor Winslow wrote of the Baptists, in 1646: 'We... Found on Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028448/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:42:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026514/posts I have hang over of Biblical proportions. As in my head is splitting like the Red Sea. Fire and brimstone are flying from me like the wrath of an Angy God. I believe the Germans caused this by immigrating to Texas and brewing a concoction known as "Shiner Bock." Anyone have any suggestions? The Bar http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026514/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:27:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025318/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger WilliamsChapter 3 - The Settlement of Rhode Island THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS IV. THE PROVIDENCE AND NEWPORT CHURCHES ROGER WILLIAMS, having adopted the old Baptist principle of absolute soul-liberty and given it practical effect in the civil provisions which he had devised, could not stop there. This deep moral truth carried with it certain logical outworkings concerning human duty as well as its rights, and as his doctrine... Found on Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025318/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:38:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024457/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction - Have We a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches Down from the Apostles?Chapter 1 - The Colonial Period: Pilgrims and PuritansChapter 2 - The Banishment of Roger Williams THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS III. SETTLEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND Salem was filled with excitement and grief when Williams was banished, and asked what its good pastor had done to merit this cruelty at the hands of his fellow-disciples in Christ? John Cotton, snugly housed in his Boston home, severely discanted on Williams's exile as any thing but 'banishment.' In that dreary New England winter, as his brother... Found at the Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024457/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:02:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021975/posts Previous posts in this series: Introduction THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD. PILGRIMS AND PURITANS The passage of the Mayflower over the Atlantic was long and rough. Often before its bosom had been torn by keels seeking the golden fleece for kings, but now the kings themselves were on board this frail craft, bringing the golden fleece with them; and the old deep had all that she could do to bear this load of royalty safely over. Stern as she was, the men borne on her waves were sterner. More than a new empire was intrusted to her care,... Found on Reformed Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021975/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 17:18:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013811/posts NEW YORK — Conservative legal advocates are recruiting pastors nationwide to defy an IRS ban on preaching about politicians, in a challenge they hope will abolish the restriction. The Alliance Defense Fund, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., will ask the clergy to deliver a sermon about specific candidates Sept. 28. If the action triggers an IRS investigation, the legal group will sue to overturn the federal rules, which were enacted in 1954. Under the IRS code, churches can distribute voter guides, run voter registration drives, hold forums on public policy and invite politicians to speak at their congregations. However, they cannot... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013811/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 23:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010956/posts "Headstrong in their two faiths, a Mormon and a Baptist squared off recently at the Tempe Institute of Religion at Arizona State University and spent 2 1/2 hours demonstrating they could aggressively question each other's religions but come away with deep respect and love for each other. Actually, some 55 times since 2001, the Rev. Gregory Johnson, founding pastor of Ogden Valley Baptist Church in Utah, and Robert Millet, dean emeritus of religious education at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, have held "A Conversation Between a Mormon and an Evangelical" in the U.S., Canada and England. Between genial ribbing... East Valley Tribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010956/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 07:33:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993836/posts Gays, women seeking abortions, couples not married will be includedJust as the Christian church has done many wonderful things throughout history, says the Rev. Richard Mark Lee, it also has done many terrible things, such as targeting, judging and condemning various individuals and groups. On Sunday, Lee plans to apologize for these past wrongs in a sermon at his church, Sugar Hill Baptist, known as The Family Church. Some of the groups Lee said he'll apologize to include gays, women seeking abortions and couples who live together outside of marriage. "For too long, we're been known for the issues we're... Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993836/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993479/posts Several dozen leading members of the Southern Baptist Convention, including its current President and several past Presidents, recently released a "Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change." I attended Liberty University, a school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and specifically affiliated with Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. Both the church and the University were founded and led by Jerry Falwell until his death last May. The school and church are now led by Rev. Falwell's two sons: Jerry Falwell, Jr. is the Chancellor and President of Liberty University, and Jonathan Falwell is the senior pastor of the... xjcsa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993479/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:10:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1986986/posts Leaders in the new Southern Baptist environmental movement were careful Monday to avoid criticizing fellow Southern Baptists still skeptical of climate change, while at the same time pushing them to have greater concern for the environment. Tue, Mar. 11, 2008 Posted: 14:07:05 PM EST Leaders in the new Southern Baptist environmental movement were careful Monday to avoid criticizing fellow Southern Baptists still skeptical of climate change, while at the same time pushing them to have greater concern for the environment. “This is a journey for each of us and Southern Baptists are at different points in this journey,” said Jonathan... Christian (itching ear scratching) Post (online) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1986986/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:17:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984272/posts Cannot Post due to copyright issues: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/03/17/080317taco_talk_hertzberg The New Yorker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984272/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:27:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1973362/posts Former president Jimmy Carter convened a large assembly of moderate and liberal Baptists in Atlanta a few weeks ago, meeting under the banner of a "Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant," seeking unity for social action across racial and theological boundaries among 30 different Baptist denominations. Ironically, President Carter's appeal to the first century dispute between Paul and Peter as an example of why Christians today should seek unity in spite of theological differences is actually a vivid illustration of the theological danger ahead for this effort and why Southern Baptists cannot be involved. Conspicuously absent from the gathering was... Florida Baptist Witness http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1973362/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:42:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970501/posts ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Evangelist Billy Graham was recovering Thursday from a surgery to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain, a family spokesman said. The 89-year-old Southern Baptist minister was expected to spend some of the day walking the halls of Asheville's Mission Hospital and to return to his usual diet later Thursday, said Graham spokesman Larry Ross. "He rested well overnight and is in high spirits," Ross said. White House spokeswoman Jeanie Mamo said President Bush placed a call to Graham on Thursday morning. "He wished Rev. Graham a speedy recovery and said that he'd... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970501/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:09:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965510/posts The Gaza Strip is home to 1.5 million Muslims - and about 3,000 increasingly frightened Christians. The small evangelical Baptist community has been a principal target of the extremists because of its missionary work, which has been halted. "Christians get killed here, let alone a Muslim who converted," said Ashraf, 36, who did not give his last name. "I stopped going to church even before the coup." And recently, even his church leader, pastor Hanna Massad, has fled to the West Bank. The murder of Baptist congregant Rami Eyad in October sent shock waves through Gaza's Christian community. Eyad's religious... Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965510/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:28:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1961565/posts I am disappointed in the tactics and statements of almost all the presidential candidates, both Democrats and Republicans. My grandmother used to say that you can tell just as big a lie with a half-truth and sometimes a bigger one. Take the half-truths said about Mike Huckabee and taxes. I lived in Arkansas when he was the governor. He did away with the marriage tax penalty and the capital gains tax on the sale homes. He doubled Arkansas' standard deduction and the child care tax credit. He slashed the capital gains tax for both individuals and businesses. In 2001, Mike... Salt Lake City Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1961565/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:21:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961186/posts NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee skipped out of campaigning in Florida a day before its primary in hopes of laying claim to Fred Thompson's backers in Tennessee. He also squeezed in some time in a Music Row recording studio, playing bass guitar with a group of country music stars and session musicians. Huckabee said those who backed the former Tennessee senator's presidential run should now turn to him because he's consistently shown he's a conservative — supporting anti-abortion measures and tax cuts while governor of Arkansas. Thompson withdrew from the presidential race last week after a disappointing... The Log Cabin Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961186/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:13:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1957206/posts HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (BP)--Vietnamese Baptists met at Grace Baptist Church in Ho Chi Minh City Jan. 10-11 to celebrate the church’s receiving official government recognition and to organize a new national confederation. This historic development is expected to encourage future evangelism and church-planting efforts in the country. The Vietnamese government made this possible by granting a certificate of religious practice to the church. The 400-member group met to create Grace Baptist Southern General Confederation. It adopted a constitution and elected officers for the new organization, which will organize and represent new churches across Vietnam. Bouquets of flowers and... Southern Baptist Conveniton International Mission Board http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1957206/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:54:59 GMT