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• Stephen Bratton
• Article
• Eschatology

While preaching through the book of Revelation, we have mentioned the understanding of Progressive Parallelism.  Here is a more full description of this hermeneutic from Anthony Hoekema.  This is taken from a broader article that he wrote explaining chapter 20 verses 1-6 and the understanding of the Millenial reign.  Here is a link to the full article: http://www.the-highway.com/amila_Hoekema.html The Interpretation of the Book of Revelation To see the background for the amillennial view of the millennium, we should first of all concern ourselves with the question of the interpretation of the book of Revelation. Let ...

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• Stuart Brogden
• Article
• Discipleship, Ecclesiology, Theology

One of the hallmarks of reformed theology is captured in the cry of Sola Scriptura! We recall from 2 Peter 1:3 that the Lord has given us all we need for life and godliness – and this applies no less to life in the local church than to the individual Christian. As we consider the various way local churches deploy the office of deacon, it is painfully apparent that many of us have lost sight of the completeness of the wisdom our Lord has provided us and the reason for it – that how we serve Him and one another would ...

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• Grace Family Baptist Church
• Conferences, Theology

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• Voddie Baucham
• Current Events, World View

The recent debate in the SBC (see here, here, here, and here) has stirred up a great deal of controversy.  Questions about who signed the document, who wrote the document, and who opposes the document have filled the blogosphere and the “tweetosphere”.  However, in all of this, there is a familiar refrain that simply will not subside.  “Why all the labels?” some ask.  “I don’t follow men; I follow Christ!” others exclaim.  While still others blame the labels (not the doctrinal distinctives they represent) for the entire matter.  But those bemoaning labels are guilty of begging the question.  They ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Video
• Eschatology, Marriage, World View

In this video, Voddie Baucham address the act of sex in relation to the return of Christ for His bride. See more at: http://www.wretchedradio.com

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• David Shiflet
• Article
• Education, Grace Family Institute, Grace Family Network

By David Shiflet As elders of two autonomous reformed Baptist churches (Grace Family Baptist Church Spring & Grace Family Baptist Church Conroe), we’re very excited about one of the most tangible expressions of both our associational unity and also our shared commitment to the Great Commission, church planting. Our unified prayer is that the Lord of the harvest, the vine-dresser, will raise men up to labor faithfully in the fields He has prepared. In accordance with this vision, we have established the Grace Family Institute (GFI) for the purpose of training and equipping men for the work of Gospel ministry ...

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• Greg Parker
• Article
• Ecclesiology, Family Integration, Ordinances

Questions about the Lord’s Supper, or Communion, are nothing new to confessional and reformed churches. Our forefathers wrestled with many of the same questions we often receive, and in fact, the divines who wrote our Confession of Faith (2nd London Baptist Confession, 1689) included eight paragraphs to express the doctrine and practice necessary for a Biblical observance of the Lord’s Table. Our Baptist Confession tracks very nearly with The Westminster Confession of Faith, so among both Reformed Baptists and Presbyterians, widespread agreement exists on the mode, duties and significance of the Lord’s Table in the worship of ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Family Integration, Voddie Baucham Ministries

Doug Brown has joined a long list of pastors, professors, bloggers, theologians, and otherwise interested parties in writing a critique of the Family Integrated Church Movement (FICM).1   This critique comes from a “Fundamental Independent Baptist” perspective.  His motivation is the fact that “The (FICM) is having a growing impact within fundamental Baptist churches.”  Brown notes: Since the mid-1990s an increasing number of families within fundamental churches have gravitated toward the family-integrated approach. In addition, families entrenched in the movement have been drawn to fundamental churches because of their emphasis on Biblical preaching and conservatism.”2 And of course, like ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Article
• Ever Loving Truth, Martyrs

Was one of Jesus’ apostles really crucified upside down? Which apostle gave his name to a type of cross? Why does that cross appear on the flag of a great nation today? How many of the apostles became martyrs? Did any of them die natural deaths? The answers to questions such as these add little to our understanding of the gospel, but they do intrigue us. Actually, we know little about most of the apostles, even the months they walked with Jesus. The New Testament gives scarcely more than the names of some of them; of others, only scanty bits ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Video
• Culture War, Theology, Voddie Baucham Ministries

Voddie Baucham gives the answer to the "culture wars".  The answer is the same regardless of the battles we fight, be it abortion, homosexuality, moral decline, etc.  The answer is "The Gospel".

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• Voddie Baucham
• Current Events, Theology, Voddie Baucham Ministries

This past week a firestorm erupted over the recent “Elephant Room 2.”  The controversy centers around the decision to invite Bishop T.D. Jakes to participate in the event.  The central questions in the debate are 1) whether or not Bishop Jakes holds to the historic, orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, 2) whether it was appropriate to invite (and feature) him without first having clarified his position on this cardinal doctrine, and 3) whether he cleared up the matter.  I was scheduled to speak at Harvest Bible Chapel on the weekend following ER2 which raised significant questions about my stance ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Politics, World View

"Voddie, because I have a great respect for you and your opinion I would really like to know why you are voting for Ron Paul ? I have not liked some of the things I have heard him say and I am wondering if I missed something?" -Pamela Wolfe (via Facebook Fan Page) Since posting a passing comment on my Facebook fan page about Ron Paul, I have been inundated with questions and concerns about my support of the Texas Congressman in the current Republican Primary race. In one of my many political posts (frequently, I post videos, news articles, etc ...

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• Grace Family Baptist Church
• Trips

Dear Friends, Reading about the Grand Canyon and standing near the edge of it to gaze at its splendor are two different experiences. Similarly, walking in the very places we read about in the Scriptures is a unique, once in a lifetime experience. Imagine standing on Mount Olivet, the very place from which our Lord ascended, or riding a boat across the Sea of Galilee where he walked across the waters. Imagine kneeling in the Garden of Gethsemane and reading about our Lord praying with drops of blood on the night before his crucifixion. February 19 - March 2, 2013 we ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Family, Marriage, Men

Voddie Baucham equips men to model and transfer God’s truth within their homes, covering topics that span from marriage and parenting to media habits and overcoming difficult family dynamics. Baucham recently sat down with Dane Ortlund to discuss his forthcoming new book, Family Shepherds. Watch the full video below, or jump ahead to one of these topics: 0:22 – Voddie shares why he wrote Family Shepherds 2:26 – TV’s portrayal of a man versus Scripture’s portrayal of a man 5:05 – The influence of Titus on Voddie’s writing 7:05 – What Voddie hopes will stick with ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Current Events, Politics

Mark Mellinger, evening news anchor for WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana, interviews Pastor Voddie regarding the "Occupy Movement".  For other resources on Worldview, try these resources:     

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• Voddie Baucham
• Discipleship, Family, Theology

Family shepherds must know the difference between law and gospel. We must know the difference between committing ourselves to leadership in our families because it’s “right,” and looking to Christ as the Good Shepherd who, by his grace, will conform us to the will of his Father as we trust and obey him. We must also know the difference between condemning our family with the law and shepherding them with the gospel. We must know the difference between what the gospel requires and what the gospel produces. WHAT THE GOSPEL REQUIRESAll the gospel requires from us is repentance and ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Family, Marriage

There is sometimes a tendency to prioritize our children to the neglect of our marriage. There are at least three reasons that make prioritizing our children over our marriage both foolish and dangerous: 1. Our children will eventually leave home. Prepare your marriage for the empty nest:To my knowledge, I’ve never talked to a person who divorced after twenty-five or thirty years who didn’t say something like this: “Once the kids were gone, we realized we really didn’t have much of a marriage.” Building a marriage on the foundation of the preeminence of children is like ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Article
• Evangelism

Life’s Ultimate Questions Every human being who has ever lived or will ever live has asked, is asking or will ask four basic questions:Who am I? Why am I here? What is wrong with the world? and How can what is wrong be made right?While we may not say them, it is in the soul of every person to wrestle with these questions. Allow me to answer these questions first from the perspective of our culture and then from the perspective of the Bible. ANSWERS FROM OUR CULTURE  Who am I? You are an accident. You are ...

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• Grace Family Baptist Church
• GfBC News

Once again we are coming up to our semi-annual meeting (Oct 26, 2011).  We are asking our members to submit deacon nominations for this coming meeting.  At the bottom of this page, you will find a nomination form.  If you know someone whom you believe is qualified, talk with them and let them know you would like to nominate them for deacon.  After discussing this with them, fill out the enclosed form and return it to the one of our elders.  We will be presenting any nominations that we have on Sunday the 9th of October to give the church ...

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• Grace Family Baptist Church
• Article
• Discipleship, Men, Theology

Our men meet on the first Wednesday of each month to discuss reading assignments that have been given.  The books below are what will be discussed at each meeting. 2011 Lifestyle Evaluation November 2nd The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky December 7th How Can I Change by CJ Mahaney Mortification of Sin by John Owen http://www.jesus.org.uk/vault/library/owen_mortification.pdf January 4th Worldviews in Conflict by Ronald Nash 2012 Family Evangelism/ Discipleship February 1st The Church and the Suprising Offense of God’s Love by Jonathan Leeman March 7th The Church and the Suprising ...

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• Grace Family Baptist Church
• Conferences, Missions

Lusaka, Zambia Grace Family Baptist Church has teamed up with Sola5 and Conrad Mbewe for several years.  GFBC has taken trips to the annual Reformed Conference in Lusaka and Pastor Voddie has been a regular speaker for the event. This year, the church was priviledged to partner with Crossway to help provide 900 ESV Study Bibles to the attendees of the conference.  Crossway was able to donate the bibles to give away and GFBC payed to have them shipped to Zambia.   In the coming years, GFBC plans on continuing to support this conference by sending teams to help teach and ...

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• Grace Family Baptist Church
• GfBC News

This weekend, Grace Family Baptist Church is releasing a new version of the website.   For several years, the need for a new website has been something that was desired by the church.  But over the last few months enough things fell into place that the church was able to make it happen.   As our society spends more time on the web and as the influence of GFBC has grown, having a better organized and user friendly website to disseminate information became a much higher priority. Research was begun in April and GFBC contracted with FiveQ Communications to scrap the website ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Catechism, Discipleship, Education, Theology

What is a Good Catechism? You've probably heard it said that there are no bad questions. Well... that's not exactly true. There are bad questions, and one of them is, "What is a good catechism?" Actually, it is not as much of a bad question as it is an inadequate, incomplete one. Asking "what is a good confession" is a bit like asking "what is a good bait?" Every good fisherman knows that a bait is only as good as its ability to attract the fish we're pursuing. In the same way, a catechism is only as ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Theology

Do you consider yourself a "Fundamentalist"?  - Anonymous I am delighted to have an opportunity to answer this question.   I get this question more than you might think.  Fundamentalists ask me this question because they've heard people call me a Fundamentalist, but have not seen evidence of it in my life and/or ministry.  Others ask me the question because they've heard media outlets (or liberal Christians) use the term to describe me and/or my ministry.   Fundamentalism vs. Reformed Evangelicalism.   The easy answer to this question is a resounding no!  I am absolutely not a Fundamentalist.  Moreover, any ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Education

As I continue to post The Continuing Collapse each month on this blog, there is a steady stream of public school defenders who insist that, although TCC has been finding and publishing evidence of widespread corruption, under-achievement, radical Gramscian marxism, violence, fraud and more in the American education establishment from coast-to-coast, this has no impact on these people’s educational choice because (altogether now) “their schools are different!”  Of course, the main difference is the presence of Christian teachers. Of course any attempt to point out the lack of biblical worldview of most professing Christians in America, the socialist/neo-marxist ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Article
• Ecclesiology, Family Integration

Any church that does not look like the ‘norm’ is always trying to explain itself.   This is a fact we know all too well at Grace Family Baptist Church.  We explain ourselves to those who visit us, those who call us trying to determine if it is a good idea to visit, those who are interested in finding or starting a church like ours, and those who are sure that we are some kind of “Patriarchy” cult.  Sometimes we explain ourselves in painstaking detail.  At other times we use shorthand.  One example of that ‘shorthand’ is our ubiquitous and somewhat ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Children, Family Integration

If you’ve walked into a church service lately with a baby in your arms, chances are you are well aware of the new anti-child atmosphere that dominates much of the modern American church.  There are smiling men and women stationed at every door ready to “guide” you to the nursery where your child “will have a very enjoyable experience” and be cared for by the best childcare staff in the history of the universe.   Rebuff these helpful people and their smiles will soon be replaced with determined glares.  Things escalate slowly at first, but eventually the truth comes out ...

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• Voddie Baucham
• Children, Family Integration

Children in Old Testament Gatherings Another major problem with the Nehemiah’s Nursery argument is that it is inconsistent with what we see in other Old Testament passages.  For example, Deuteronomy 31 paints quite a different picture than the one suggested by nursery advocates: “Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God ...

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