The First 2000 Years of Baptist History

Baptist Curriculum on the Crucial Role of Baptist Doctrine and Baptist History in Contending for the Faith, in Spreading the Gospel, and in Advancing Religious and Civil Liberty
The Origin of this Baptist Curriculum
Pastor John Jones, alarmed over Baptist churches dropping "Baptist" from their names, saw a need for members at Lighthouse Baptist Church to study and to better understand what is distinctive about Baptists in both doctrine and history. Since church member Terry Lee Hamilton loves history, Pastor Jones asked Terry to prepare lessons and teach a Sunday School class on Baptist history and distinctives. Terry taught the course in 2001, and then again in 2006, updating and upgrading his lessons. Pastor Jones came up with the idea of preparing these Sunday School lessons for publication for use in other Independent Baptist churches where concerned pastors desire church members to study and to better understand what is distinctive about Baptists in both doctrine and history.
Distinctives of this Baptist Curriculum
The First 2,000 Years of Baptist History: Why You Should Be a Bible-Believing Baptist is unlike any other course on Baptist history and distinctives. Each lesson is written by a Baptist attorney who has practiced law since 1977 and has fought in courtrooms and legislatures for religious freedom and separation of church and state since 1984. Attorney Terry Hamilton's Sunday School lessons include insights on court cases in which he has fought, as well as insights from leading U.S. Supreme Court cases on freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Each lesson concludes with Personal Application, where the student is challenged to apply what he has learned to (1) his personal walk with Jesus, family life, and church life, (2) contending for the faith, (3) spreading the Gospel, and (4) advancing religious and civil liberty in America and around the world.
Isaac Backus C. H. Spurgeon Adoniram Judson John Leland
Suitability of this Baptist Curriculum
This curriculum, with 13 lessons, was originally designed to be taught during Sunday School. However, some preachers are planning on teaching these lessons on Wednesday or Sunday evening services. In addition, church schools, homeschooling families, and even Bible colleges are using these lessons as part of their curriculum.
Instructions for Use
This Baptist History curriculum has two primary components: The Teacher Edition Textbook (125 pages), in full color, includes 13 lessons with all fill-in-the-blank answers as well as special instructions in red to guide the teacher in each lesson. The Student Edition Textbook (125 pages), in black and white, includes 13 lessons with fill-in-the-blanks for students. We also have available the following supplemental products for this curriculum which are valuable in the academic setting for church schools, home schools, Bible institutes, and Bible colleges: The Student Workbook (33 pages), in black and white, contains review questions for each of the 13 lessons (159 questions total). This workbook does not contain the 13 lessons -- students are to use this workbook in conjunction with the Student Edition Textbook. The Teacher Answer Keys & Tests (89 pages), in black and white, contains answers to the review questions from the Student Workbook, 3 tests (50 questions each), and answers to tests. This answer key is to be used in conjunction with the Student Workbook. Glory to Glory Ministries grants to each church the privilege of making sufficient copies of the Student Edition Textbook, the Student Workbook, and Tests for students in the church, school, or college.
All Scripture quotations are taken from the Authorized King James Bible.

A Brief Survey of Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches

What are their Beliefs and History
Compiled by Cooper P. Abrams, III
All Rights Reserved (September 2007)

Contents:

What Is An Independent Fundamental Baptist?

Baptists Are Not Protestants.

Who Were the First Baptists?

When and Where Was the First Recorded Baptist Church in History

The Beginnings of the Baptists in America

What Makes a True Baptist?

The Five Baptist Distinctives

Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

A Woman Rides the Beast!

By Dave Hunt

Published 1994, 549 pages

Overturning the Reformation

1. A Woman Rides the Beast!

2. Reason to Believe

3. A Passover Plot?

4. An Unfolding Revelation

5. Mystery, Babylon

6. A City on Seven Hills

7. Fraud and Fabricated History

8. Unbroken Line of Apostolic Succession?

9. Infallible Heretics?

10. Infallibility and Tyranny

11. Upon This Rock?

12. Unholy Mother

13. Seducer of Souls

14. An Incredible Metamorphosis

15. Unholy Alliances

16. Dominion over Kings

17. Blood of the Martyrs

18. Background to the Holocaust

19. The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Jews

20. The Slaughter of the Serbs

21. The Vatican Ratlines

22. Sola Scriptura?

23. A Question of Salvation

24. "Sacrifice" of the Mass

25. The Reformation Betrayed

26. Apostasy and Ecumenism

27. What about Mary?

28. The Coming New World Order

Appendix A: Purgatory

Appendix B: Indulgences

Appendix C: Dominion over Kings: Further Documentation

Appendix D: Papal Infallibility and Apostolic Succession

Appendix E: Papal Heretics, the Bible, and Galileo

Appendix F: What About Tradition?

Notes

To the nearly 1 billion Roman Catholics

misinformed by their hierarchy;

to the 400 million Protestants equally ignorant

of the facts; and to the genuine martyrs

on both sides, this book is dedicated.

ORIGIN of the BAPTISTS by SH Ford

• Introduction to New Edition

• Introduction

• Where did the Baptists Come From?

• Chapter I—Century XVIII - Baptists in Virginia

• Chapter II—Century XVII - Baptists in England—Cromwell and the Stuarts

• Chapter III—Century XVI - The Reformation - England

• Chapter IV—Century XV - Wales - Bohemia - Germany

• Chapter V—Century XIV - Wickliffe and the Lollards

• Chapter VI—Century XIII - Pete de Brue

• Chapter VII—Century XII - Henry of Lausanne - Peter de Bruis - Arnold of Brescia

• Chapter VIII—Century X - Baptists in Italy - Paulicians

• Chapter IX—Century VIII - Retrospect

• Chapter X—Century VII - Montenes

• Chapter XI—Century VI - Donatists

• Chapter XII—Century V - Numidians

• Chapter XIII—Century III - Novatians

• Chapter XIV—Century II - Tertullianists

• Chapter XV—Century I - The Primitive Churches

Sumber: http://www.pbministries.org/History/S.%20H.%20Ford/Origin%20of%20the%20Baptists/origin_of_the_baptist.htm

WHY DON’T YOU FOLLOW MATTHEW 18?

Enlarged March 8, 2010 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143,fbns@wayoflife.org)

From time to time I am asked if I follow the guidelines of Matthew 18 before I publish a report.

For example, when I published an open challenge to Clarence Sexton about the Friendship Conferences, I received the following:

“I am deeply upset at the private letter you posted on your website to Dr Sexton. Thanks for shooting your own and not calling Pastor Sexton personally to get all of the facts. I guess you don't read Matthew 18 all that often.”

The fact is that I did contact Pastor Sexton personally months before the publication of the article. As for Matthew 18, as we will see, it has nothing to do with the issue.

When I published a gentle warning about some of the newer Patch the Pirate music tapes years ago, I received some notes from people asking if I had first approached Majesty Music. Following is one of these:

CREMATION: WHAT DOES GOD THINK?

Updated March 9, 2010 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org)

In a book on the subject of Christian funerals, a writer gives the following advice regarding cremation:

“Personally, the minister may or may not approve of such proceedings. Privately, he is free to hold any opinion that he will. But officially he should keep an open mind. In the Christian religion there is nothing that frowns upon cremation or requires burial.”

Is this sound advice? Is cremation a matter of Christian liberty? In certain places land space is so crowded that burial plots are very expensive and in some cases there are efforts by the governments to discourage burial in preference to cremation. That this problem has become acute in Singapore is referred to in the following official statement made by the Bible Presbyterian Church of Singapore in May, 1987--

“1. There is an increasing number of cremations in Singapore even amongst Christians. 2. It is quite evident that our Government favours cremation by improving the facilities of the existing crematoria and columbaria, and by increasing the cost of burial while keeping down the cost of cremation. 3. Some non-Bible Presbyterian pastor have spoken and written in favour of cremation and have officiated at cremations while some non-Bible Presbyterian churches have even built columbaria. 4. Those who favour cremation claim it is more hygienic, cleaner and cheaper. 5. They see cremation as a convenient form of disposal of the dead. 6. Cremation does away with burial plots that need to be upkept and falls in line with our Government’s stress on strategic land use” (Far Eastern Beacon, July 1987, p. 4).

Berita Mingguan 06 Maret 2010

GEREJA PRESBYTERIAN USA MENYETUJUI PENAHBISAN HOMOSEKSUAL

Tanggal 20 Februari yang lalu, sebuah gereja Presbyterian di Wisconsin menyetujui penahbisan Scott Anderson, yang pernah dipecat 20 tahun yang lalu. Anderson tadinya menggembalakan Gereja Presbyterian Bethany di Sacramento, California, dari tahun 1983 hingga 1990, sebelum dia dipaksa untuk turun karena homoseksualitasnya, karena konstitusi Gereja Presbyterian USA mengharuskan para gembala "hidup dalam kesetiaan pernikahan antara seorang lelaki dengan seorang wanita, atau dalam kekudusan kehidupan tak menikah." Pada tahun 2006, Sidang Raya Gereja Presbyterian USA "menafsir ulang" hal ini dan mengizinkan penahbisan orang-orang homoseksual jika diterima oleh badan kepemimpinan lokal. Jelas sekali bahwa kata-kata sama sekali tidak memilki arti bagi orang-orang ini, baik itu kata-kata Alkitab maupun kata-kata konstitusi mereka sendiri. Penahbisan Anderson yang baru disetujui oleh sejawatnya yang sesat dengan proporsi 81 banding 25.

Mengupas Tuntas Bidat Saksi-Saksi Jehovah (Jehovah's Witnesses)

Artikel-artikel yang Mengupas Tuntas Bidat/Sekte Saksi-Saksi Yehuwa (SSY)

Bagaimana menaklukkan Saksi Yehovah ?

Membongkar Fitnah/Dusta/Kepalsuan Saksi - saksi Palsu Yehuwa

Menjawab Pertanyaan Sekte Saksi Yehuwa yang dimuat Tabloid Gloria mulai Edisi 365-385:

Saksi Yehuwah (1)

Saksi Yehuwah (2)

Saksi-saksi Yehuwa

Saksi-saksi Yehuwa

Saksi Yehuwa 1

Saksi Yehuwa 2

Saksi Yehuwa dan Alkitab

Menjawab Saksi Yehova

SAKSI JEHOVAH: SINYAL YANG MEMBINASAKAN

Membongkar Saksi-Saksi Yehuwa (Jehovah’s Witnesses)

Siapakah Saksi Yehova/Yehuwa itu?

Buku-Buku yang mengungkap tentang Saksi Yehuwa

Tim Redaksi LLB(Lembaga Literatur Baptis), Bagaimana Menghadapi Saksi Yehuwa, Lembaga Literatur Baptis, Bandung, 1998

Saksi Yehuwa, siapa & bagaimana mereka? Herlianto, Kalam Hidup

Saksi-Saksi Yehuwa, tamu tak diundang yang rajin berkunjung ke rumah-rumah, Herlianto, Kalam Hidup

4 Buku Pdt. Budi Asali:

Saksi-Saksi (palsu) Yehuwa (jilid I)

Saksi-Saksi (palsu) Yehuwa (jilid II)

Saksi-Saksi (palsu) Yehuwa (jilid III)

Saksi-Saksi (palsu) Yehuwa (jilid IV)