What Damaged The Independent Baptist Movement?  (Chapter 25) It has been said that one should guard their strengths because often that is where we become the most vulnerable to error or failure. That very possibly … Read More

THE PRINCIPLE OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE (Dr. Bob Gray Sr.) Dr. Jack Hyles 1926-2001 A preacher called me one day to ask my advice on a matter. His question was regarding how to better market several … Read More

Remnant? There seem to be many independent Baptists who have taken to excusing their smallness to being a remnant, but is it really true? We seem to think that we are small because we are … Read More

THE PRINCIPLE OF CHANGE Chapter 1 A 408 page hardback book on the life principles of Dr. Jack Hyles-Pastor of the World’s Largest Sunday school It was not that he was against computers, nor did … Read More

ABANDONING WISDOM Dr. R. G. Lee 1886-1978 I was thinking this morning, for some reason, about R. G. Lee, the famous preacher.  Robert Green Lee was born in a three room log cabin in South … Read More

Proverbs 27:1 says “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. The biggest mistake made by mankind is dreaming what tomorrow will be like. We say, “This … Read More

LEADERSHIP  Looking back on my nearly 70 years of life I can only recall a handful of men who were real leaders.  Those were the ones who led from the front and not from behind. … Read More

Independence As a boy we lived in a run down apartment just off of Arcadia Court in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Our school clothes were given to us by a Nuns’ clothing room of the Catholic Church … Read More

The Public Invitation Attacked By: Keith Phemister I was talking to a man whom I pastored, and while we were talking, he made a statement that took me aback. He said that in our Baptist … Read More

Do Not Conform In 50’s I recollect the PTA of our pubic school debating the allowing of what they called “Slack Friday.”  It was a discussion over allowing the girls to wear slacks, not jeans, … Read More