Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches - June 3
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org --
The Union of Regular Baptist Churches was founded in 1928 under the leadership of T.T. Shields, pastor of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, after that church was voted out of the Ontario and Quebec Convention.
Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada
In 1953, the Union of Regular Baptist Churches and the Fellowship of Independent Baptist Churches merged to form the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada (FEBC).
The Baptist Missionary Fellowship of.. see full report
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org --
The Union of Regular Baptist Churches was founded in 1928 under the leadership of T.T. Shields, pastor of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, after that church was voted out of the Ontario and Quebec Convention.
Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada
In 1953, the Union of Regular Baptist Churches and the Fellowship of Independent Baptist Churches merged to form the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada (FEBC).
The Baptist Missionary Fellowship of.. see full report
Friday Church News Notes - May 30
DESPERATE TIMES FOR INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCHES (Friday Church News Notes, March 4, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Over the past 30 years we have seen dramatic changes among independent Baptist churches. Everywhere I travel for Bible conferences, pastors tell me about churches in their areas that have capitulated to the contemporary philosophy and are now enemies of what they used to stand for, or they no longer exist. Consider Akron Baptist Temple of Akron, Ohio. It was founded in 1935 by Dallas F. Billington. By 1949, the church claimed 10,000 members and built a 2,800-seat auditorium. (Obviously most of the “members” were absentee, which was typical of the Quick Prayerism program.) In the 1960s, the church boasted the title “the world’s largest Sunday School” with high days of more than 5,700. In 1978, a 4,000-seat.. see full report
DESPERATE TIMES FOR INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCHES (Friday Church News Notes, March 4, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Over the past 30 years we have seen dramatic changes among independent Baptist churches. Everywhere I travel for Bible conferences, pastors tell me about churches in their areas that have capitulated to the contemporary philosophy and are now enemies of what they used to stand for, or they no longer exist. Consider Akron Baptist Temple of Akron, Ohio. It was founded in 1935 by Dallas F. Billington. By 1949, the church claimed 10,000 members and built a 2,800-seat auditorium. (Obviously most of the “members” were absentee, which was typical of the Quick Prayerism program.) In the 1960s, the church boasted the title “the world’s largest Sunday School” with high days of more than 5,700. In 1978, a 4,000-seat.. see full report
Sermons on the Clothing Issue - May 29
Two of the messages at the recent Contenders Conference hosted by Cornerstone Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, deal with the subject of the Christian’s clothing.
The videos of the Contender’s Conference 2025 are available online and can be found HERE.
Session 4 - “Clothing Matters” by David Cloud
I. Clothing is a major issue because clothing is a language.
2. Clothing is a major issue in the battle for the character of churches today.
3. Clothing is a major issue to the world.
4. Clothing is a major issue in the Bible
Session 5 - “Bible Principles on Modest Attire” by David Cloud
A word-by-word study of modest attire in 1 Timothy 2:9-10: modest, shamefaced, sobriety, broided hair, gold, pearls, or costly array, adorn, good works,
“The apparel issue is part of a package of things.. see full report
Two of the messages at the recent Contenders Conference hosted by Cornerstone Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, deal with the subject of the Christian’s clothing.
The videos of the Contender’s Conference 2025 are available online and can be found HERE.
Session 4 - “Clothing Matters” by David Cloud
I. Clothing is a major issue because clothing is a language.
2. Clothing is a major issue in the battle for the character of churches today.
3. Clothing is a major issue to the world.
4. Clothing is a major issue in the Bible
Session 5 - “Bible Principles on Modest Attire” by David Cloud
A word-by-word study of modest attire in 1 Timothy 2:9-10: modest, shamefaced, sobriety, broided hair, gold, pearls, or costly array, adorn, good works,
“The apparel issue is part of a package of things.. see full report
Lonnie Frisbee
Lonnie Frisbee and the Jesus People Movement - May 28 - See full report for introduction.
Lonnie Frisbee (1949-1993) further illustrates the frightfully shallow nature of many of the Jesus People “conversions” that formed the foundation of the contemporary praise music movement. Frisbee turned to “Jesus” through LSD trips and began to receive “prophecies” while high on drugs. On his own authority the teenage Frisbee baptized a group of drugged up hippies at Tahquitz Falls after reading the Gospel of John to them and painting a picture of “Jesus” on the rocks. Later, in the same place while on an acid trip, he had a “vision” that God had called him to preach the gospel to multitudes.
In a video documentary on Frisbee, David DiSabatino observes that many of the Jesus People conversions involved drugs. “One of the ironic twists of the 60s was that many openly stated that drugs, LSD in particular.. see full report
Lonnie Frisbee (1949-1993) further illustrates the frightfully shallow nature of many of the Jesus People “conversions” that formed the foundation of the contemporary praise music movement. Frisbee turned to “Jesus” through LSD trips and began to receive “prophecies” while high on drugs. On his own authority the teenage Frisbee baptized a group of drugged up hippies at Tahquitz Falls after reading the Gospel of John to them and painting a picture of “Jesus” on the rocks. Later, in the same place while on an acid trip, he had a “vision” that God had called him to preach the gospel to multitudes.
In a video documentary on Frisbee, David DiSabatino observes that many of the Jesus People conversions involved drugs. “One of the ironic twists of the 60s was that many openly stated that drugs, LSD in particular.. see full report
Final Earthly Chapter of a Godly Music Man - May 27
The following report documents the great changes that have occurred among fundamental Baptist churches since the 1990s and how that a change in music is always involved. --
Gordon Sears was born May 26, 1922, and died July 31, 2001, at age 79.
He was a pastor, evangelist, and musician who worked with some of the well-known names in gospel music of the past generation, including Rudy Atwood.
Though I had many opportunities to correspond with Brother Sears, I only met him one time, and that was soon before he died. I had.. see full report
The following report documents the great changes that have occurred among fundamental Baptist churches since the 1990s and how that a change in music is always involved. --
Gordon Sears was born May 26, 1922, and died July 31, 2001, at age 79.
He was a pastor, evangelist, and musician who worked with some of the well-known names in gospel music of the past generation, including Rudy Atwood.
Though I had many opportunities to correspond with Brother Sears, I only met him one time, and that was soon before he died. I had.. see full report
Friday Church News Notes - May 23
PIRATE’S COVE, THE ONE-WORLD CHURCH, AND THE CUSP OF FINAL APOSTASY (Friday Church News Notes, May 23, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Pirate’s Cove, California, intimately associated with the birth of Christian rock, is back in the news in connection with “revival” and Christian unity. In 2023, 2024, and 2025, thousands were baptized at Pirate’s Cove and nearby beaches (Newport, Huntington), and Mark Francey said a major goal is unity (“Baptize California Pastor,” Crosswalk, May 16, 2025). Thousands of churches are participating, with the number growing each year, and no words of disunity are allowed, no contending for the faith, no warnings about apostasy, no separation from.. see full report
PIRATE’S COVE, THE ONE-WORLD CHURCH, AND THE CUSP OF FINAL APOSTASY (Friday Church News Notes, May 23, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Pirate’s Cove, California, intimately associated with the birth of Christian rock, is back in the news in connection with “revival” and Christian unity. In 2023, 2024, and 2025, thousands were baptized at Pirate’s Cove and nearby beaches (Newport, Huntington), and Mark Francey said a major goal is unity (“Baptize California Pastor,” Crosswalk, May 16, 2025). Thousands of churches are participating, with the number growing each year, and no words of disunity are allowed, no contending for the faith, no warnings about apostasy, no separation from.. see full report
The Language of Music Styles - May 22
Few things are more dangerous doctrinally, philosophically, and spiritually to a Bible-believing church than contemporary Christian music and contemporary worship music. It is at the heart of the blending and merging that is creating the end-time, one-world “church” which will come into full bloom in the day of the Lord. Contemporary worship music is a bridge to extremely dangerous things.
The victory is not merely “keeping the hymnal.” The victory is in proper, ongoing education for the entire assembly. Tradition and ignorance will not do.
The Satanic Attack on Sacred Music consists of a textbook and a video series with about 18 hours of teaching, packed with photos, graphics, audio and.. see full report
Few things are more dangerous doctrinally, philosophically, and spiritually to a Bible-believing church than contemporary Christian music and contemporary worship music. It is at the heart of the blending and merging that is creating the end-time, one-world “church” which will come into full bloom in the day of the Lord. Contemporary worship music is a bridge to extremely dangerous things.
The victory is not merely “keeping the hymnal.” The victory is in proper, ongoing education for the entire assembly. Tradition and ignorance will not do.
The Satanic Attack on Sacred Music consists of a textbook and a video series with about 18 hours of teaching, packed with photos, graphics, audio and.. see full report
T.T. Shields - May 21
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873-1955) was born in England and grew up in Canada, the son of a pastor. He was converted in 1891 at age 18 and preached his first sermon three years later. He had no formal college or seminary education. He pastored four Baptist churches between 1894 and 1910.
That year he became pastor of Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto, where he remained until his death in 1955. He was called a “man of special gifts, a mountain peak without peer as preacher, teacher, writer--a veritable genius, the Canadian Spurgeon, a battling Baptist, and a devoted pastor” (Leslie Tarr, Shields of Canada, from the foreword by H.C. Slade).
By 1919, Jarvis Street was the leading church of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, with a membership of.. see full report
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873-1955) was born in England and grew up in Canada, the son of a pastor. He was converted in 1891 at age 18 and preached his first sermon three years later. He had no formal college or seminary education. He pastored four Baptist churches between 1894 and 1910.
That year he became pastor of Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto, where he remained until his death in 1955. He was called a “man of special gifts, a mountain peak without peer as preacher, teacher, writer--a veritable genius, the Canadian Spurgeon, a battling Baptist, and a devoted pastor” (Leslie Tarr, Shields of Canada, from the foreword by H.C. Slade).
By 1919, Jarvis Street was the leading church of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, with a membership of.. see full report
The GARBC's Slide Into New Evangelicalism - May 20
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
By the 1980s, the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) was infiltrated with the contemporary evangelical philosophy. Its founding statements on separation no longer reflected the view of a growing number of its pastors.
Consider two voices from the “old GARBC” as expressed in the official literature of the 1940s and 1950s.
GARBC Literature Item # 12, “The Position, Attitudes, and Objectives of Biblical Separation,” by Paul Jackson: “Separation is an eternal principle. It is God’s commandment that we must separate from unbelievers. Further, in the third place, it is God’s.. see full report
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
By the 1980s, the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) was infiltrated with the contemporary evangelical philosophy. Its founding statements on separation no longer reflected the view of a growing number of its pastors.
Consider two voices from the “old GARBC” as expressed in the official literature of the 1940s and 1950s.
GARBC Literature Item # 12, “The Position, Attitudes, and Objectives of Biblical Separation,” by Paul Jackson: “Separation is an eternal principle. It is God’s commandment that we must separate from unbelievers. Further, in the third place, it is God’s.. see full report
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pic: Reuters
Friday Church News Notes
- May 16
LEO XIV, ANOTHER BLENDING, MERGING POPE (Friday Church News Notes, May 16, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The newly elected pope, Robert Prevost of Chicago, has named himself Leo XIV and expressed the desire to be an ecumenical pope, which could have been predicted by any right-thinking student of Bible prophecy and of the times in which we live. In his inaugural speech on a balcony above St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo said, “We must be a church that builds bridges and seeks dialogue” (“Catholics in Rome,” The Washington Times, May 8, 2025). Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York hailed the new pope as “a bridge builder,” a “universal pastor,” and “a citizen of the world.” Leo is the first American pope, which is appropriate since America is the heart and soul of the one-world church that is unwittingly.. see full report
- May 16
LEO XIV, ANOTHER BLENDING, MERGING POPE (Friday Church News Notes, May 16, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The newly elected pope, Robert Prevost of Chicago, has named himself Leo XIV and expressed the desire to be an ecumenical pope, which could have been predicted by any right-thinking student of Bible prophecy and of the times in which we live. In his inaugural speech on a balcony above St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo said, “We must be a church that builds bridges and seeks dialogue” (“Catholics in Rome,” The Washington Times, May 8, 2025). Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York hailed the new pope as “a bridge builder,” a “universal pastor,” and “a citizen of the world.” Leo is the first American pope, which is appropriate since America is the heart and soul of the one-world church that is unwittingly.. see full report
Rolland Starr and Cornerstone Baptist Church of Belmont MA - May 15
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
We include Pastor Rolland Starr (1925-2020) and Cornerstone Baptist Church of Belmont, Massachusetts, as an example of fundamental Baptist churches in the north that were not connected with the various associations. Cornerstone was simply an independent fundamental Baptist church. We will see that Pastor Starr, like many independent Baptist preachers, was not in any “circle.”
I preached at a Bible conference at Cornerstone in 1988, and at the time it was a life-changing church with forthright, biblical preaching, an emphasis on a regenerated church membership, sacred music (the church has a pipe organ), the imminent return of Christ, a strong stand for the truth, separated holiness in Christian living, soul-winning zeal, and a vision for world missions. These were major characteristics of the best fundamental Baptist.. see full report
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
We include Pastor Rolland Starr (1925-2020) and Cornerstone Baptist Church of Belmont, Massachusetts, as an example of fundamental Baptist churches in the north that were not connected with the various associations. Cornerstone was simply an independent fundamental Baptist church. We will see that Pastor Starr, like many independent Baptist preachers, was not in any “circle.”
I preached at a Bible conference at Cornerstone in 1988, and at the time it was a life-changing church with forthright, biblical preaching, an emphasis on a regenerated church membership, sacred music (the church has a pipe organ), the imminent return of Christ, a strong stand for the truth, separated holiness in Christian living, soul-winning zeal, and a vision for world missions. These were major characteristics of the best fundamental Baptist.. see full report
William Bell Riley - May 14
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
William Bell (W.B.) Riley (1861-1947) was the most prominent leader of fundamental Baptists in the North.
His ministry was called “the citadel of Fundamentalism”; he was called “The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism.” He was a founder of the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association in 1919 (see “Interdenominational Fundamentalism”), the Fundamentalist Fellowship in 1920, and the Baptist Bible Union in 1923.
Riley grew up in Kentucky and was saved at age 17. His aspiration to be a lawyer conflicted with his sense that God was calling him to preach. Finally, at age 20, he knelt down on the family farm and said to God, “I will! I will preach!” He.. see full report
The following is excerpted from The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, www.wayoflife.org -
William Bell (W.B.) Riley (1861-1947) was the most prominent leader of fundamental Baptists in the North.
His ministry was called “the citadel of Fundamentalism”; he was called “The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism.” He was a founder of the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association in 1919 (see “Interdenominational Fundamentalism”), the Fundamentalist Fellowship in 1920, and the Baptist Bible Union in 1923.
Riley grew up in Kentucky and was saved at age 17. His aspiration to be a lawyer conflicted with his sense that God was calling him to preach. Finally, at age 20, he knelt down on the family farm and said to God, “I will! I will preach!” He.. see full report
Tom Wallace Last of the Old Breed - May 13
Tom Wallace is one of the few fundamental Baptist “mega preachers” of the 1970s who is still alive and ministering today. As of 2025, he is 95.
(Old age reminds me of the optimist who fell off of the Empire State Building. As he was falling past the 95th floor, he was heard to say, “So far, so good!”)
The last time I heard Tom Wallace preach was in the 1970s. Recently I became aware that he is still at it. Though acclaimed as a “prince among us” by some and though a doer of many good things, he reminds me of the unscriptural program I witnessed at Highland Park Baptist Church as a Tennessee Temple student in the 1970s: big numbers-ism, big man-ism, boasting, quick prayerism, biblically shallow preaching, a mixed multitude church membership instead of a regenerate membership, lack of serious discipleship, a focus on externalism, neglect of church discipline, the church more an evangelistic.. see full report
Tom Wallace is one of the few fundamental Baptist “mega preachers” of the 1970s who is still alive and ministering today. As of 2025, he is 95.
(Old age reminds me of the optimist who fell off of the Empire State Building. As he was falling past the 95th floor, he was heard to say, “So far, so good!”)
The last time I heard Tom Wallace preach was in the 1970s. Recently I became aware that he is still at it. Though acclaimed as a “prince among us” by some and though a doer of many good things, he reminds me of the unscriptural program I witnessed at Highland Park Baptist Church as a Tennessee Temple student in the 1970s: big numbers-ism, big man-ism, boasting, quick prayerism, biblically shallow preaching, a mixed multitude church membership instead of a regenerate membership, lack of serious discipleship, a focus on externalism, neglect of church discipline, the church more an evangelistic.. see full report
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