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We kind of got into this in the Jack Treiber thread and I thought it deserved it's own thread.  I'm sure it's been covered before. Are you for or against screens in preaching and why?

Just trying to get something started here with some questions: 1) Is the IFB movement (I'm thinking Hyles, Sword of the Lord, West Coast, Crown, etc.) fatally flawed? 2) If you do believe it is fatally flawed, then how? 3) If you do believe it is fatally flawed, is it redeemable? 4) If you think...

I've heard a lot of talk lately about just war theory.  Basically it comes down to doing as little damage as possible to tackle your opponent and only targeting enemy combatants. I'm wondering, do we apply just war theory when we "earnestly contend for the faith?"  Do we only try to defeat the...

Recently, I've encountered some people who I would describe as hyper-dispensational.  By hyper-dispensational I mean, they say things like "Christ's teaching in the Sermon on the Mount wasn't intended for us, but for the kingdom age."  Or "1 John and James isn't for the modern Christian...

I've been to Peter Ruckman's church and heard him preach.  I've heard Bill Brady speak many times and have had one on one conversations with him.  After the KJV movies came out last year, I admired Sam Gipp, till I went on his web site and started seeing the way he writes.  Here is the thing...

I haven't been blogging for awhile, but I wrote this post this morning, and I always appreciate the forum's take on these things.  This one is about our tendency to explain away scripture. http://www.ryan-hayden.com/3-ways-explain-away-scripture/

Please state your position and biblical argument for it. I grew up in an open/close communion environment.  The church I pastor is closed communion.  (Always has been, when they hired me I told them i was unsure of my position and we would stay closed until I came to a conviction on it and...

Read this article by Al Mohler on the Zimmerman case.  He's very good at "playing both sides." Is he just being soft here?  Or does he make a legitimate point...

I'm an east coaster.  Born and raised.  Parent's from Boston.  I've lived in plenty of places, just none west of East Tennessee.  Besides missions trips to Mexico, I've never been west of St. Louis.  Now, I've found myself hopelessly stuck between Indiana and Iowa.  (Lot's of corn.)

I have a theory - I think that the modern revival emphasis was never intended for the church. That's not to say there are no revivals in the Bible - there are many of them, in the Old Testament. That's not to say there haven't been great revivals in semi-recent history - there were several, they...

I wrote this post today on the blog about the bad effects of simplistic preaching. http://www.ryan-hayden.com/how-simplistic-thinking-preaching-hurts-people/ Anybody care to share examples of how someone oversimplified Bible doctrine and it had negative effects on you. (please don't turn this...

I'm an IFB pastor.  I'm conservative about the KJV, music, dress, etc.  I didn't go to Hyles, but interacting with HAC alumni, I find the one common thread with all of them is that they worship the ground that Jack Hyles walked on. I know pastors who will pray to the deceased Jack Hyles. I know...

This is one that I've never heard preached about but seems to be taught in the NT.  (many would argue that non-extravagance is the meaning of modest and James seems to deal with this in his critique of the rich man.). What's your take?  Is it appropriate for a preacher to wear $1500 suits?  Just...

I don't know this guy, but I liked this article and I echo his sentiments toward Independent Baptists: http://brentstancil.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-i-have-not-left-independent-baptist_5.html?m=1

I wrote this piece on my blog.  (I haven't been blogging much lately, mostly because I'm busy with pastoring and trying to get my pizza oven finished.)  It is about how my generation (I'm 29 BTW) uses Christian liberty as an excuse to run to the other extreme of the IFBx crowd. ...

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Just had to ask.  Seeing that there have been so many ridiculous "can a Christian be" topics posted.

I was fascinated by this article by Kevin Bauder: http://www.centralseminary.edu/resources/nick-of-time/in-the-nick-of-time-archive/459-on-fundamentalism-past-a-progress-report?utm_source=feedly In it, he quotes Jack Hyles of all people in deliniating a taxonomy of fundamentalism.  I found it...

Read this this morning and it got me riled up.  http://feedly.com/k/1077iTL Here is my response http://feedly.com/k/1077NgE

I'm trying to compile some history on fundamentalism.  I'm finding its hard to find objective material.  Everything is either glowingly positive or extremely negative. So far I've got George Marsdens books (which are objective but limited) and a couple of bios on J Frank Norris and John R Rice. ...