This is adapted from a post I put on the Faith Baptist Church blog when I was there. It is from August, 2007.
I have long known about relativism, the teaching that all truth is relative to a fixed point. So, in essence, there can be many ideas about truth each as valid as another. So, I could say that 2 + 2 = 4 and you could say 2 + 2= 5 and we could both be right in the world of relativism.
While I appreciate and concede that some understanding is influenced by our upbringing, culture etc., I must say that I believe truth is truth. If we disagree about something it must be that one of us is right and you are wrong (I am just joking, I trust God will always keep me teachable).
More recently I came across a philosophy prevalent in...
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The last few weeks we have been in South Carolina, Tennessee, back to South Carolina, then I traveled up to Pennsylvania for a week before returning back to South Carolina. On the way up to Pennsylvania and on the way back down I was able to stop and visit with churches in Virginia.
We spent about ten days in Tennessee staying with the Stagners at New Testament Baptist Church in Goodlettsville. It was a great time and I had the opportunity to arrange meetings with some pastors in the area...
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A few years ago a friend of mine, Pastor Stephen Boreland, became pastor of Bethesda Free Church in Sunderland, England. Bethesda has a rich history which I would love to share more about another time. However, what Bethesda has long been famous for is a strong tradition of sound, doctrinal teaching. Some of the best known teachers of modern history were once pastors at Behtesda.
Stephen Boreland is continuing that line. One way he has raised the profile of the church in recent days has...
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