Dan Greenfield

  • God always fulfills His promises

    Acts 23:1-10 relates how Paul was in a difficult spot, literally about to be torn in two! The following night Jesus “stood by him and said, ‘Be of good cheer, Paul; for as you have testified for Me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome” (23:11). The rest of the book of Read more

  • The Bond Essential to a Local Church

    I don’t agree with everything Puritan William Ames (1576-1633) said about the church, but I greatly appreciated these statements of his I read today: Believers do not make a particular church, even though by chance many may meet and live together in the same place, unless they are joined together by a special bond among Read more

  • A Hymn and Prayer for the New Year

    A Hymn and Prayer for the New Year

    Now, gracious Lord, thine arm reveal, And make thy glory known; Now let us all thy presence feel, And soften hearts of stone! Help us to venture near thy throne, And plead a Savior’s name; For all that we can call our own, Is vanity and shame. From all the guilt of former sin May Read more

  • Training our Children for Ministry

    This is an excellent article. Read more

  • The SBC and the New Calvinism

    The SBC and the New Calvinism

    Within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over the last few years I’ve heard rumblings against the “New Calvinism.” This past Tuesday Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Paige Patterson said that “If we are not careful a myriad of related beliefs and practices will enter our camp, hidden within the Trojan Horse of Calvinism.” Patterson’s remarks followed that Read more

  • Substituting the Social for the Spiritual

    I’ve been perusing an old periodical, The Christian Worker’s Magazine (Nov 1919), published by the Moody Bible Institute. In an article titled “Christian Education: Its Relation to Modern World Life” the author Rev. Robert Russell marks out “five distinct lines of modern apostasy [that] stand out in world thought” where apostasy is substutited for the Christian Read more

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