Why men have stopped singing in church!

An interesting article worth reading - especially in relation to more contemporary churches where singing hymns is going out of style:

http://churchformen.com/how-were-off-the-mark/why-men-have-stopped-singing-in-church/

Interesting article on Introverts verses Extroverts from a Christian perspective

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2013/04/25/four-lies-about-introverts/

Baptist Churches and the Younger Generation

Very interesting article and perspective worth looking at:

http://www.andrew-garcia.com/1/post/2013/04/30-under-baptists-why-weve-stuck-around-how-to-keep-from-losing-us.html

Liberal theologians struggle with Genesis 1

Liberal theologians today continue to struggle with the Creation story of Genesis chapters 1 and 2.  Throughout the last century, as the Evolutionary Theory has become accepted and the Big Bang Theory has been adopted, theologians have struggled with combining these 'scientific' discoveries along with the Bible.

As a believer in the literal interpretation of the Bible and one that believes that the Word of God was verbally inspired by God to man - I believe in a literal interpretation of the Creation account.  God Almighty created everything we can see in six literal days and created it all from absolutely nothing.

Today we have a new approach among evangelical circles.  This approach states that God did not create everything in six literal days - rather He re-arranged it to suit man and Himself.  God took what was already there and just 'cleaned it up'.  Read this following account from Professor John H. Walton from his book The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient  Cosmology and the Origins:

The interpretation of Genesis 1 as an account, using ancient cosmology, of the origins of the functions of things in an ordered universe, is maybe for us a very new way of reading the creation story. In this account, God is described as active within creation, and in the historic sequence of acts brought order out of chaos. Appealing to ancient creation accounts in different cultures, Walton shows how these too had a focus on functional rather than material origins. The Hebrew account is similar to them in this respect, whilst differing in other key respects – one of which would be the enhanced roles given in the Hebrew account for man and woman, and the contrasting roles of the gods, set against the role of the Hebrew deity.

...In this contention, the word beginning in Genesis 1:1 raises the question: beginning of what? Rather than being a statement of the beginning of the material universe, Walton argues that it means beginning of this seven day period, whenever that may have been in relation to a prior material origin of things. It is a literary rather than literal introduction to the account.

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on new translations of the Bible

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Part of an address given at the National Bible Rally in the Royal Albert Hall, London, on October 24, 1961






I suppose that the most popular of all the proposals at the present moment is to have a new translation of the Bible.... The argument is that people are not reading the Bible any longer because they do not understand its language—particularly the archaic terms. What does your modern man...know about justification, sanctification, and all these biblical terms? And so we are told the one thing that is necessary is to have a translation that Tom, Dick, and Harry will understand, and I began to feel about six months ago that we had almost reached the stage in which the Authorized Version was being dismissed, to be thrown into the limbo of things forgotten, no longer of any value. Need I apologize for saying a word in favor of the Authorized Version? Well, whatever you may think, I am going to do it without any apology…






…In view of all this, my argument is that the answer does not lie in producing new translations. They are coming out almost every year, but are they truly aiding the situation? No, and for this reason: men no longer read the Bible not because they cannot understand its language, but because they do not believe in it. They do not believe in God; they do not want it. Their problem is not one of language and of terminology; it is the state of the heart. Therefore, what do we do about it? It seems to me there is only one thing to do, the thing that has always been done in the past: we must preach it and our preaching must be wholly based upon its authority.


Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1900-1981), one of the greatest preachers in the twentieth-century English-speaking world, ministered at Westminster Chapel, London from 1938 to 1968.

The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth APRIL 2008

A Christ - centered Church!

To build a vibrant church it is essential that the local Church is Christ-centered.  Here are some quick points:

1. Mankind exists to bring Glory to Jesus Christ and the Godhead.  Therefore the Church’s full focus and goal is to glorify the Almighty.  Every service, activity, program, board meeting, Sunday school class, bus route, etc must be focused on Glorifying Him.

2. To Glorify Christ the Church must Teach about Him, must Worship Him, mustTell Others about Him, and we must Talk about Him.

3. A Christ-centered Church will find ways to tell the Lost about Him.  All events become evangelistic opportunities.

4. A Christ-centered Church is a Church that will stand unwavering upon His Word!

5. A Christ-centered Church will spend time Talking to Him in Prayer!

6. A Christ-centered Church will understand that we desire a Relationship and not just a Religion.

- Pastor Wes Gunther

The Resurrection - Pastor Wes Gunther