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Baptists Don’t Believe in Miracles?
THE KINGDOM ALERT (WEEKLY UPDATE)
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
IS IT TRUE THAT BAPTISTS DO NOT BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, PRAYER AND DIVINE HEALING AS DESCRIBED IN JAMES 5:14-18? (By Joey Faust)
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Baptists and the Open (Fast Closing) Door of Religious Liberty
[The following article is taken in part from a sermon I preached on July 4th, 2001. In light of recent controversies over faith-based legislation, etc. I thought this information may be useful and timely.]
Modern America, if not the whole world itself, owes a great debt to Baptists for many reasons. God used Baptists to open the door of religious liberty. Baptists have been the traditional defenders of religious liberty for at least three reasons:
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Thoughts on Church Government
THOUGHTS ON CHURCH GOVERNMENT
(By Bill Jackson of C.E.C.)
Jesus had made it clear:
“Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.
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Baptists Do Not Believe In Miracles? – KAU#212
IS IT TRUE THAT BAPTISTS DO NOT BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, PRAYER AND DIVINE
HEALING AS DESCRIBED IN JAMES 5:14-18? (By Joey Faust)
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More Baptists Before the Age of Luther: Berenger (998-1088) – KAU#119
This brief article will explore the “Berenger Baptists.” From the days of the Apostles, down through the ages, there have been many believers that have embraced Baptist doctrines. Wherever people have had access to a New Testament, there have been some that have rejected infant sprinkling, the celibacy of priests, image worship, state church, popes, Mary worship, etc. Many reformers left the Catholic church through the influence of early Baptist Christians, or through the study of Scripture itself. Berenger (or Berengarius) was one of these early reformers:
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