From time to time, I publish some of the goodies from my interesting mailbox, and many people have told me that they enjoy reading these things. Following are some items from the last couple of months:

 
From time to time, I publish some of the goodies from my interesting mailbox, and many people have told me that they enjoy reading these things. Following are some items from the last couple of months:

 
THEY LIKE THE PREACHING
 
“I was raised in a very rigid catholic religion in the 1940-1950 and I learned only about a God of wrath. At the age of twenty, I quit the Catholic Church because I was unable to observe all their laws. For the next 25 years, I forgot about God. But God never forgot me. Through a long, circuitous and painful road, he led me back to Him, the real God. I am a recent convert to the Baptist faith. I was baptized in September and will now be part of a very small French Baptist church in Canada. What I want to tell you is about your writings on mysticism. You can take the girl out of the Catholic Church, but it is very hard to take the church out of the girl. Until I started reading your books, I never really re-examined what I was taught with my mother's milk. I did not like the Catholic Church but I could not tell you what was wrong with it. To make a long story short, on August the 9th, 2008, I went to a family wedding in a catholic church. Of course, I remained in my pew and did not partake of Communion because I do not believe in it.

November 25, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) –

From time to time, I publish some of the goodies from my interesting mailbox, and many people have told me that they enjoy reading these things. Following are some items from the last couple of months:

THEY LIKE MY PREACHING

“I want to thank you for sending this timely well-written, thoughtful and very clear study on Biblical Repentance. I was so convicted and moved by the message that I knew it was exactly what I needed to hear. I was wrestling with this very topic just last night before I went to sleep and it when I awoke this morning the first thing I read was this message. I am convinced that this is an answer to prayer and God is using you to reach me. I feel very uplifted as well as deeply convicted. I cannot put into words how much this study has moved my very soul. Repentance is indeed a vital part of presenting a clear Gospel message and now I see clearly how to present it when attempting to reach souls for Christ. ... God bless you brother! And thank you for being a faithful servant to our Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”

“I wanted you to know the article on ‘Why doesn’t John 3:16 and Acts 16:31 mention repentance’ was fantastic. I printed it off in order to show and share with others. I have a hard time explaining this to people and now with your help, I can do this even better. Thanks for your help.”

“Brother Cloud is a man you can trust and respect for his unashamed defense of the KJV. What I love is his teaching is not just a defense of the KJV, but a devotion to live according to its precepts. Some defend the KJV from pride and forget it must be applied to our daily lives. When you are exposed to these types it can be very discouraging. Separation is needed more today than perhaps ever.”

“I again I am writing you to tell you how much I like your work. I may not agree with 100% of it, but 99% I do. Keep up the good work. I wish the world, and especially the ‘church,’ would realize we are called to truth, to discernment by the Word of God. Truth is absolute. Approximately 1/3 of the New Testament is dealing with the heresies within the church at that time. We are called to correct and rebuke by the Scripture (2 Tim. 3:16). There are way too many that have a perverted ecumenical view that tolerance is love. That is blinding weight put on our shoulders by Satan. If I am to love others as I love myself, then just as I look after my own interest in regards to Heaven and Hell, and my desire for a close personal relationship with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to do His will, then I should have as much the same concern for others in these regards. That is love. Thank God He is the Rock, the Cornerstone, and thank you for your leadership, keep feeding the Sheep!”

“G'day, I just want to say thank you for keeping the church up to date with what is going on in the world in these end times. My soul is greatly blessed and my spirit is refreshed with the truths and warnings from the O Timothy magazine we get here in Australia. I constantly examine myself and my ministry according to the Scriptures to make sure a ‘little leaven’ has not crept in. ... Thank you for standing for TRUTH in this great day of apostasy and providing guardrails for those who are travelling on the narrow way.”

“Keep up the good fight. As long as you are getting criticized and buffeted you can rest assure that you are doing what our Lord wants you to do. I am in total agreement with you and look forward to reading your books and other forms of information. Keep up the good fight, there are not many soldiers left standing.”

“I have been a Subscriber to the FBIS for many years and would like to say that, despite my not always agreeing with your position on some matters, I have always found the articles to be very informative and helpful and overall a tremendous blessing.”

“Bro Cloud, since I have come across your ministry. It is has been a blessing to me. You have enlightened me of things going on around me. I have just recently purchased your study materials and enjoy your sound counsel. You keep up God's work. I have not found any fault in your ministry, but balance.”

“I just wanted to send you a quick note and let you know I appreciate your ministry. I appreciate the fact that you are able to strongly rebuke error, but in e-mails like the one below [‘I Am Not Your Pastor’] you seem to have a very Christ-like spirit. That is a blessing. I am not a pastor, but I appreciate the warnings presented in your e-mails. I wouldn't want to unknowingly be involved in something that wasn't honoring to the Lord, and this part of your ministry helps me in that area. So I just wanted to take a minute and let you I'm grateful for the work you do in sending out these e-mails.”

“Your ministry is appreciated for its helps in this dark time.”

“Because of your courageous stance against the shifting sands of compromise and apostasy, (with the great help of being raised by a staunch Baptist pastor and mother) I am determined that for the rest of my life I will stand boldly for the truth and not keep silent in this outspokenly evil world. You are one those people who sparked my interest in many issues and they opened my eyes and made me become aware. Thank you Brother Cloud. May you continue to stand for Christ till the end!”

“May God continue to bless your ministry. I have been encouraged and strengthened in my walk with the Lord over the past several years by the Way of Life ministry. I pray that God will grace you with continued strength and wisdom as you serve him in this vital work during these troublesome days. To God be all the glory for what he is doing today and what he will do in the future days ahead.”

“Just a quick note to offer you my highest compliments and thanksgiving to the Lord Christ for your new book 'The Emerging Church.' It is indeed a very fine piece of research, scholarship, and spiritual discernment. We are once again in your debt for carrying out your labors so carefully. thoroughly, clearly, and in the best spirit of true Christian admonition.”

“I commend the sane and informed way that you answer opponents in the Bible version debate. You are firm, but kind. Factual, not factional. Above all, you maintain and exhibit a firm faith in the God of the Bible, the One who has revealed himself to us through His Written Word.”

“First of all, let me say that I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for you. This site has proved invaluable to me and my ministry. I have your way of life encyclopedia of the Bible and Christianity also. I refer to both on a weekly basis as I attempt to learn more and more about our Lord.”

“I am thankful for the way in which you refrain from taking a certain position because you are this or that kind of Independent Baptist. Instead, it is quite evident to me that you are doing everything in your power to live a according to God's Word. I highly respect your study and research of the Bible and it always encourages me to do my own.”

UNLESS I AM MISTAKEN, THESE DON’T LIKE MY PREACHING

“I just hear banging gongs & resounding cymbals after visiting your homepage.”

“I myself have been called to be a preacher, teacher, apostle, prophetess, in the healing ministry, jail ministry, singer and whatever else GOD sees fit for me to do. ... I will, however, be praying for you and the way you think. It is wrong! ... After all GOD says in HIS word to NOT TO TOUCH MY ANOINTED! So my friend I will pray for you and pray that you will have new revelations with GOD. New experiences and an open mind.”

“David W. Cloud's ignorance as to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church is amazing. I pray that God may touch and heal your soul, and that the full splendor of TRUTH, only found in the one holy Roman Catholic Church, may eventually become known to you.”
“You anti-Holy Ghost Baptist who profess to know so much about the operation of the Spirit, know nothing. Yet you want to tell us how its done and how its done properly. God laughs at you.”

“I just feel that it would be best if you view Christianity not from your own perspective and assumptions (Fundamentalist dogma) but from a spirit of Grace that says Jesus is Lord but all else may in fact be up for debate. Be Well.”

“You are so dead spiritualy that you have to demean the power of God in the church today! If you don't like the song's don't hear them! It is so ridicoulous if the problem was because of the music we would be singing 2,000 year old song's!!!!!!!! Why don't you get a life !!!!!!!! You guy's are so dead spiritualy!!!!!”

“After reading through much on your site I have found that I am no longer fundamental and am a New Evangelical. I am also finding that many of those whom I have seen on the news as 'hateful' are fundamental baptists. In fact, a couple of my friends found some fundamental baptists in downtown Chicago a few weeks ago yelling on a bullhorn telling people they were going to hell, calling men gays and women lesbians who they had never met before. They were yelling at people telling complete strangers that their parents raised them improperly. What I am getting at here is that Christ gives two main commandments, To love God, and to love others as ourselves. The second follows the first, I acknowledge, but, yelling to complete strangers that they are going to hell is not loving and it is not what my Lord did in any text of the Holy Scriptures. He remarks often on Gehenna, I know. But, he does not act like many of the fundamental baptists I have heard of. You rant often about heretics, D.A. Carson, you say is a dangerous man, Billy Graham you think, is going to hell. Graham, I concede said something that I think is not fundamental, true, but more people are going to see our Lord face to face because of what he has done in his life, to deny that is to become like an osterich and duck your little head in the ground. What about D.L. Moody, was he a heretic too? I attend his namesake school Moody Bible Institute and I take great joy in sitting under several 'New Evangelical' (as you would say) professors. I have enjoyed greatly studying about the catholic fathers. And, I enjoy reading several of the works of many Roman Catholic mystics, who I learned to love from the works of A.W. Tozer (was he a bad man too?). ... What about Jonathan Edwards or John Owen as they are my favorites, oh, and St. Augustine? I am wondering how wrecked my soul will be before I see the Lord.”

“In your article about ‘george harrison dies,’ you are completely and utterly wrong about the teachings of Shri Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He was a great man, who taught millions about Hinduism, a beautiful religion, which leads to salvation.”

A LITTLE FARTHER OUT

“You guys really have an entire article where you call John Lennon evil. You are a complete joke. Lennon preached all the same things as Jesus Christ, but because he thought logically and pointed how hypocritical your religion is and how it prevents people from living together peacefully then he is ‘evil’. By the way your beliefs are based on a two-thousand mythological book. On top of that it has been edited and filtered so --------- like your organization can brainwash ignorant rednecks. Why don't you put your efforts towards something productive and progressive, rather than talking about the ‘evil legacy’ of a dead hippie. P.S. I don't have a problem with Jesus Christ (if he even existed), I just hate his followers.”

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September 3, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) –

From time to time, I publish some of the goodies from my interesting mailbox, and many people have told me that they enjoy reading these things. Following are some items from the last couple of months:

THEY LIKE MY PREACHING

“I have been emphasizing ‘repentance’ as I also have been exposed to the Sword of the Lord mentality of evangelism. For many years I would go out knocking on thousands of doors pointing towards a prayer. Hundreds if not thousands of people were ‘saved’ in the 5 years that I was in --------- as a youth pastor. Maybe 20 were baptized. And of those that were baptized I remember maybe 3 or 4 that became active members of the church and evidenced some fruit of Salvation. During those years, I knew in my heart something was wrong, but was so blinded by loyalty to a pastor/group of men that were ‘doing the real work of evangelization’ that I did not question the methodology. It has only been in the last two years that I have been challenged biblically by several men (primarily yourself and several other men) about preaching ‘repentance.’ I do believe in Biblical Repentance and know that it must be preached!”

“God bless you for all the articles you have written about immodest dress among women and about the evils of CCM and rock music. God bless you for having written the book: ‘Dressing for the Lord.’ There is nothing like it written in the last one hundred years. It is a book that should get 90% of the IFB Churches into sack cloth and ashes and repentance. God says in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that IF God's people would ‘Turn from THEIR wicked ways’ then God would HEAR us from Heaven and forgive our sins and HEAL our land.”

“Thanks for your ministry. The Lord is surely using you as THE WATCHMAN. I appreciate it very much.”

“I enjoy reading your material. Your studies of the scriptures and writings have influenced many of the people in our church. You have a great handle on the word of God and have taken a strong stand at time when many churches have not.”

“Thank you for your clear and direct, albeit respectful, handling of biblical (and unbiblical) issues on your website. I really appreciated your remark in regards to some extra biblical and creative teachings of Peter Ruckman. You said: ‘I don’t have to refute them; they are self refuting for the simple fact that they have no biblical authority.’ Thank you for providing such a simple and concise answer. May the Lord bless you in your labor for him.”

“Thank you for your ministry. It is a light in the darkness of the apostasy of this world. ... I look forward to my monthly O Timothy magazine. May the Lord bless you and His grace be with you.”

“I continue to enjoy your frequent emails and benefit from your insights. You are a man of amazing depth and breadth of knowledge of God’s Word, and you are adept at applying it to the situations we face every day. Thank you so much.”

“Thank you Brother Cloud for all your good work. You have helped us very much in all your sermons, through some very trying times. Keep up fighting the good fight!”

“Thank you again for the POWERFUL weapon of the scripturally based written word in sounding the alarm and contending for the Faith”

“Great work on the church fathers in this last O Timothy. I have been meaning to also thank you for the great work you did in your ‘The History of the Churches’ which I plan to use in our upcoming ‘Church History’ module. Keep up the great work which is so needed today!”

“It is time for my 3 year renewal to O Timothy. At 74 years of age this will probably be my last renewal. I did even think that I might not renew again, but your magazine is such a Spiritual blessing, I decided to press ahead.”

“I just wanted to say how very thankful I am for your ministry! One of the reasons I say this, is that I find your articles which demonstrate the pitfalls of Calvinism, to be such a great resource. As you point out in one of your articles, belief in Calvinism is greatly on the increase. I had thought Christians who believed in it were in a tiny minority, but it seems as if everywhere I look on the internet, there are Christians who are espousing this doctrine. ... May God continue to bless your ministry greatly!”

“I want to thank you for your writings and teachings on CCM and Christian Rock and Roll. It is beginning to open my eyes on CCM. For me, I grew up from a young age on rock and roll. When I was saved at 13 in a Charismatic church, Christian rock and roll was all the rage. I fell into it in the mid eighties. Since leaving the Charismatic church and becoming a Baptist, it has been a struggle between regular rock and roll and CCM. ... If CCM and other secular forms of Christian music are wrong, I just do not want someone to tell me this as I have heard many preachers preach against it, but I want someone to show me how and why. I do see that you are doing this. ... Me, I am a show me kind of person and saw the people you quoted in an article on your website about this connection. Well, I started to do my own research and saw that your quotes and conclusions are truthful. ... In closing, I want to be right with the Lord, but want to do it from knowledge of why and how. You have helped me in this endeavor. Thank you for telling and teaching the truth.”

“I truly enjoy reading the articles posted on your website. They are a great blessing and encouragement to me. I pray that our Lord would continue to strengthen your ministry as it spreads His truth without shame.”

“I've also been meaning to tell you that I read your book, Dressing for the Lord. Thanks so much for its timely message. Here in California there is much fashion and show, even among 'Christian' people. And I find that many are under attack for their strong convictions in this area.”

“I enjoy your reports and I'm thankful that there are men of God who are willing to stand for the truth! There is such a great need to ground our people in faith. May the Lord richly bless your faithfulness.”

“Right on target as usual [referring to our article on Carl Jung]. Few Fundamentalists know how dangerous this man’s teachings are. In fact, you are the only Fundamentalist I know who even knows how to pronounce his name! Thanks for your good work--quantity and quality.”

“I wanted to thank you for the ‘survey’ article on men's opinions of women’s attire. It was insightful, and I sent it to my women friends.”

“I appreciate very much the material you make available on the internet, and make much use of it in bulletin inserts.”

“I was thinking the exact thing yesterday as I worked on a computer in one of our offices. [He is referring to the article ‘Country Music Confusion’ in the Friday Church News Notes.]. The radio in that office was playing a country station and I only caught parts of the songs but I was glad that I had decided not to listen to the radio for music. Then the Alan Jackson song you mentioned had come on and I was glad that I had decided not to listen to his ‘Precious Memories’ CD anymore. Thank you again for your ministry.”

“I have to just share with you that the articles on your site has been a wonderful blessing indeed -- very handy ‘summarized tools’ re the widespread deception, to pass around.”

“Regarding the sermon ‘Neglect of Separation’ by David Cloud, thank you for your courageous faithfulness to speak the truth and expose error. The situation in the United Kingdom is similar to the USA--so called evangelical churches are to a large extent compromised and hardly any one is sounding the warning message as Charge Haddon Spurgeon did with the Downgrade controversy and left the English Baptist Union in the 1800s.”

“Greetings in the precious name of our dear Saviour Jesus Christ. I've never written to you before but I have been reading and appreciating your efforts for many years. I would like to thank you for this particular article and for the depth it contains with regard to C S Lewis. I have been wary of the man for a long time and did some research on him several years ago which led me to the conclusion that he was very unlikely a born-again believer.
What amazed me was the resistance I found to this point of view amongst fundamental Baptists. It seems that, at least in the circles I move in, Lewis is held in as high a regard as by evangelicals. A few years ago I purchased and read through the whole set of his Narnia chronicles and noted every place I could find a twisting of Scripture as part of the storyline. By the time I was done I had a lot of sticky notes poking out the side of the book. As an unsaved, unchurched boy growing up in Britain I remember the confusion I felt over the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The notion that somehow this 'allegory' points people to Christ is a dangerous one. If it is indeed an allegory it is a very twisted and poor one indeed. I was certainly none the wiser for reading the book as an unsaved child and after reading it as a saved man I was horrified at the way that Lewis uses Biblical themes in his construction of Narnia. The same goes for his partner in crime Tolkien. Thank you again for your diligence and hard work in this and many other matters. May God bless you and keep you and give you great joy in His service.”

“I have just finished your book The New Age Tower of Babel. Disturbing, but excellent! Thank you so much for continuing to keep us informed through your books and e-mail writings. I am praying for more men who are willing to stand for the truth, as you so faithfully do, in these perilous days.”

“Brother Cloud, I cannot say it enough, thank you for your ministry through Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour.”

“Brother, many in the church are edified and many lost churchgoers are drawn by the light that comes from your ministry in Christ. There are many of us that are trying to grow in Christ and learn to serve him in spite of this flesh.”
UNLESS I AM MISTAKEN, THESE DON’T LIKE MY PREACHING

“As a former Lutheran and now Catholic for over 15 years, I find that your information is wrong about the Catholic Church. I am sorry that you feel the need to Catholic bash. I will pray for you. For God says, you shall not judge.”

“Please remove this garbage and lies you have posted about the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Baptist cult in which you belong is full of lies and deceptions and the protestant religion as a whole is of the devil and you are Satan's mouthpiece to spread his lies.”

“I don't see your problem with CCM industry because it is reaching people and places that the church can't get to. So I think you need to open your mind and open your heart. There is beauty and there is still a message in gospel music and I think the Christian community needs to find some sort of ‘entertainment’ when the world's entertainment is not even close to entertaining. So go ahead and keep posting these ridiculous articles but all your doing is lying to yourself and lying to the people reading, if they actually believe this hogwash. You are a radical and give Christians a bad name!!!!!!!!! It's people like you that cause global warming!!!!!!!!!!!!! An Outraged Singer!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“I am praying that our Lord would free you from the religious spirit that is influencing you. Similar to the Pharisees during our Lord's time on this earth, I believe that you have let ‘religion’ overwhelm you and prevent God from working in your life. ... I feel sorry for you. May our Lord have mercy and help you overcome this religious spirit.”

“You are concern about a man that has been married more the once! How low can YOU go? I guess all the way to whatever.”

“It’s amazing how you can be so WRONG and think you are so RIGHT”

“It is the fundamentalist extremist population who are the most dangerous. Just look at the Muslim Jihadists.”

“I am a Christian. But I prefer Christ's message of love over your doctrine of hate.”

“I've been reading your article on Gossip. I was enjoying it very much till I came across your comments concerning Billy Graham and James Dobson. I very seldom have ever done this but I would encourage you to be very careful about how you speak in regards to these men. Although they are not perfect, as none of us are, they have reached more people for Jesus and have done more for the Kingdom of God then most believers. My pastor said one time that if we reach as many people for Jesus as they do then maybe we have a right to say something.”

“How Christians can JUDGE Christians is beyond me. Having the POWER OF THE INTERNET and using it to disgraces Gods word. Love one another as i have loved the church, JUDGE not or you will be Judged by the same manner.”

“You are self-righteous.”

“Saddleback is a Christ centered believing fellowship with an amazing leader whom God is using in a might way. If you are indeed a ‘brother’ you should instead be preaching to the unsaved. I will pray for you,”

A LITTLE FARTHER OUT

“What is your problem with John Lennon. ... The things you imply are sick, immoral, and grossly outlandish. I hope you are ashamed at the kind of person you are and how you have to put people down so much. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO SAY, DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL. Peace, Love, and Harmony. John Lennon's Ghost”

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April 22, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) –

From time to time, I publish some of the goodies from my interesting mailbox, and many people have told me that they enjoy reading these things. Following are some items from the last couple of months:

THEY LIKE MY PREACHING

“Thank you demonstrating wisdom, humility and honesty in responding to your critics. I have been on your mailing list for a number of years. I carefully read nearly every article that comes to me from Way of Life and I have never once gotten the impression that you use or approve any Bible version except the KJV. I appreciate your stand for the truth, the example you set, and the courage you exhibit. May God bless you and your family and may he continue to give you strength to labor for him. I thank the Lord for allowing me to find and learn from your teaching materials. To God be all the glory!”

“I just wanted to thank you. After reading the page WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?, I finally see that I can be saved. I have always understood that I was a lost sinner in the eyes of God and I thought that I would have to change my own heart in order to be saved. I have spent many years trying to change my own heart and have failed miserably! I have been living in deep sorrow until now. I finally see that calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to save me from my sin and BELIEVING on him in faith, I am SAVED and that everything else will follow. Thank you so much for this site, I used to fill so empty and lost and now I feel like I have been rescued.”

“I just wanted to say, boy, you sure take a lot of lip, Brother! I read some of those negative e-mails, and without even considering the goof-balls at the end, it seems obvious that they built their opinions over, maybe one article, and that being something they were already considerably on the other side of. You are a man of considerable patience, and I can see your love and concern for those in error. I never have seen you use the vitriolic language of many of the Ruckmanites who accuse you of what they do, nor have I seen anything in your writings that shows anything but concern for the cause of Christ. Yet man would have you bow to the altar of tolerance for all over obedience to God. What a shame. I get some of that in my work, as well, but you really get it. God bless your ministry.”

“Dear Brother Cloud: I just wanted to drop you a note of thanks. I am old 64, but young, 2 years saved. Last week a fellow came to my door proclaiming the name of the Lord. We hit it off pretty good, and had a nice talk and prayed together in the name of Jesus when he left. I didn't think too much more about it until he came back again later that day and wanted to read the Bible. I didn’t have time, so I told him I had to leave. As he was leaving I asked what church he attended, and he said adventist. I had no idea what that was. When I got home that night I looked it up in the Baptist library, and I was quite shocked to say the least. When he came back I asked him what was the doctrine of his church. Of course he would not answer me directly, and kept throwing it back at me. I finally had enough, and questioned him about his doctrines. When I did this his whole demeanor changed and I swear I could feel the presence of evil. He started to quote scriptures to prove his points and it all sounded really true. If I had not been prepared his misquotes may have confused me greatly. Thank you Brother Cloud for the library.”

“I have been reading some of the articles contained on your site and they are eye-opening, encouraging, and have challenged me to look to God and his Word for truth....and nowhere else! There is so much false doctrine out there, and it is causing unsuspecting people to believe ‘another gospel.’ They are getting ‘saved’ under this ‘gospel’ and carrying on in deception, all the while thinking they are ‘saved.’ I know, I was one of them. There are endless amounts of churches where I live, but there are just not enough that want the Word of God as their final authority and it is sad. I'm just thankful for people like you who are looking out for deceptions, warning of apostate teachings, and putting the information in places where people like me can access it. THANK YOU.”

“I have received a great blessing from the Advanced Bible Study Series, which I purchased recently, especially How to study the Bible. This is helping me study God’s Word and rightly divide it, and for that I am very grateful. I am one of many that are benefiting from the material you have written.”

“True Christian fellowship is almost impossible to find, because those of us using the Bible of our source of instruction are considered trouble makers and reactionaries. May God continue to use you to publish the truth, giving you strength in the midst of cries of heresy.”

“God bless you for all the articles you have written about immodest dress among women and about the evils of CCM and rock music. God bless you for having written the book ‘Dressing for the Lord.’ There is nothing like it written in the last one hundred years. It is a book that should get 90% of the IFB Churches into sack cloth and ashes and repentance. God says in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that IF God's people would ‘turn from THEIR wicked ways’ then God would HEAR us from Heaven and forgive our sins and HEAL our land.”

“I want to commend Brother Cloud and all those who take the time to research so diligently and then carefully test these issues with God's Word. It has been a blessing to so many in our church family. We receive the O Timothy magazine which has been an encouragement in this day of compromise.”

“Thank you so much for your wonderful study guide on the Book of Revelation. I have been a Christian for many years, but have always struggled to understand this book. I have to say that I found this study so interesting I could hardly drag myself away from it, and completed it in less than a week.”

“Last spring I had the opportunity to talk to a retired military officer, as I noticed he was carrying a copy of Metzgers Oxford Bible I asked him if he had read the instructions in the front of the book, and he replied ‘no.’ I told him that I had read them (from your book) and it had scared me. I gave Him material from E. F. Hills and Dean John Burgon to read and left the materials with him all summer. This fall when we returned he caught me coming in to the restaurant where I coffee with the old cowboys and he returned my materials and proclaimed, ‘I AM KING JAMES FROM HERE ON.’ Had you not armed me with your book ‘The Bible Version Issues’ I would not have noticed the Bible he was carrying and known Metzger was the author. .... Your guidance and help is beyond measure.”

“An EXCELLENT article regarding rock music [“Is It Wrong to Listen to ‘Clean’ Secular Rock?”]. Here in Africa there is ‘gospel rock’ (a misnomer) all around us. I plan to copy this article off and take it to some that need to read it. Amen and amen!”

“Praise God for your ministry. I pastor Grace Baptist Church in Oxford, PA. Your materials are strengthening not only church members, but also pastors who may be tempted to compromise, sometimes knowingly, sometimes also because of simple ignorance.”

“I've visited several independent Baptist churches and cringe to hear some of subtle CCM music being used and to see the literature they’re offering -- devotionals and tracts written by or endorsed by new evangelicals. Instead of being vigilant we seem to be half asleep. ... Praise the Lord for Brother Cloud's faithful ministry.”

“God Bless you for the work your doing.  I am so amazed at how the people and preachers  will not touch the ecumenical  and charismatic movements and   preach fell good sermons with a "join the popular Jesus club no life change salvation instead of the Hell, Fire, and Brimstone Repent salvation.”

“I just want to thank you for your ministry and for remaining faithful in the last days. Your Friday Church News makes me more zealous each time I receive it. I was born again early in my senior year in high school and for years, I was involved in the Charismatic movement and gone to churches that espouse the ‘health and wealth’ and ‘prosperity’ teachings. In recent years, I got disenchanted with the whole Charismatic movement and so on that I was about to give up completely on God. But I started to seek the truth and now I am coming back to the fundamentals of biblical christianity. You have played a large part in my getting back to the fundamentals of biblical christianity and I praise God for your ministry. You have been a blessing not only to me but also to my family and I am sure to others. I want to thank you for your faithfulness and I continue to thank God for you. God bless you.”

“I have ordered six of your advanced bible study books, and I do not know why I waited this long to do so. I am presently working on the book of Romans and whao!!!, what an eye opener.”

“Just to give you a little background info, my wife and I were saved at Victory Baptist (SBC) a few years ago. ... Victory was following Ron Phillips’ philosophy by tossing out doctrine and allowing anybody to join, using praise and worship & CCM, encouraging charismatic teaching, etc. In fact the pastor took church groups to Pensacola’s Brownsville ‘revival’ a couple of times. My wife and I never felt comfortable with all this stuff going on, but didn’t know how to deal with it at the time. Eventually several families, mine included left Victory. It eventually changed names and became an Assemblies of God church. Long story short, the Lord led my family and me to leave and join an independent Baptist church under the ministry of a sound fundamental pastor. That is where the Lord called me to preach, and I have pastored at our current church for about the last 4 or 5 years. Your material was instrumental in leading us to the truth in many areas including Bible versions, music, the charismatic movement and the SBC.”

“I appreciate this piece on the current surge of Calvinistic doctrine. What stands out to me is your point that those enamored with Puritanism should be warned about Reformed Theology. I would like to thank you for your willingness to make that point.”

“Thank you for the informative material on the dangerous spread of Calvinism. I am a full-time faculty member here at the college and to the best of my knowledge none of our staff are Calvinists. May the Lord bless you for your timely, informed stand on crucial issues.”

“The more I listen to your posts the more I appreciate your work, thanks.”

“Just a short note to let you know how very much I've enjoyed your Bible study on the book of Job, along with many others such as Romans, Hebrews, Proverbs, Psalms as well as some Epistles. I recently picked up the Job study for the second time and must say that I whole heartedly agree with you when you say, ‘If the book of Job was not in our Bible we would be much poorer spiritually.’ The Bible studies really work for me because they are like a meal; they are tremendously meaty yet simple, not so large as to intimidate and not to small, just right. I like the format of reading so much and then a few questions; it keeps me (most of the time) paying attention. Thank you for this fine material.”

UNLESS I AM MISTAKEN, THESE DON’T LIKE MY PREACHING

“Who died and made you the keeper and sustainer of all things holy? Who died and made you the judge of any man, much less another servant of God? Oh, yes, I see. You thought God died and you had to take His place. I pray for you that the LIVING GOD will forgive you of your hate-filled judgementalism. May God have mercy on your soul. Such attitudes as yours are a blemish on the bride of Christ.”

“Who is the enemy? YOU ARE! Shame on you. I was so disappointed to find someone claiming to be a believer criticizing other believers. God help you!!”

“Respectfully methinks your labored addiction to fundamentalism has clouded your view of Christ and christianity - christianity does not equal fundamentalism - fundamentalist diatribe such as you dwell in is more akin to paranoia than the gospel of Christ.”

“I have a much different view of your ministry, it is judgmental, condemnatory, haughty, finger pointing, and so focused on "truth" that you don’t know the real truth, which is the character of Christ.”

“I pray that you at Way of Life may find Jesus’ love and that it may melt the icy stone that birthed such an article [“Beware of the Ragamuffin Gospel”].”

“In response to your “Warning about Chuck Swindoll,” what will be worse for you -- to arrive in heaven one day, and find out there are 100x's more followers of Christ there than you expected, or to arrive in hell in the company of the Pharisees who completely missed the grace of God? We are saved by faith in Jesus, not by getting all of our tenets of the faith just right. I feel sad for you, and will pray that you experience the freedom that Jesus brings.”

“I just read your Rome tour and realized that people may read the same words but not understand them. I pity you in the darkness of Baptist hate and bigotry.”

“I think you might need to calm down a bit...for one, live and let live. If what Chuck Swindoll says is blasphemy in God's eyes, let God handle it! It is not yours or anyone elses' place to judge, so chill out and worship the way that you feel is right!”

“I believe that you have really missed the mark. In other words shut up and listen to God. I am not judging your religion please don’t judge mine. If you don’t agree with the Catholic Church that is fine, keep it to your self.”

“Baptist Fundamentalist Finger Pointing , Which I so thankfully came out of. Blind guides and Pharisee's. White washed sepulchers filled with dead men's bones. That's all you are portraying. Since you think Pentecostals and charismatic's are the ones in error, hear it from a former baptist. AIN'T NO WAY.”

“Shame on you and the things you have said about Mr. Swindoll. I have listened to Chuck for many years and have been very moved by his sermons and his love for the Lord. After browsing over your ‘Warning about Chuck Swindoll’ I am disheartened that a ministry (and I use this term loosely in your case) would bash a man who has done many great things for God. I hope that you go to bed tonight and look deep into your soul, as well as pray fervently, that the Lord will open your darkened eyes and see the light. God bless you, and know that I will be praying for you and your salvation.”

“I just read your post on John MacArthur at http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/warning-johnmacarthur.html. You people are pharasaic in every way. I'm looking forward to blogging on you - coming soon.”

A LITTLE FARTHER OUT

“Shut up, Idiot! You read the information, and get saved, you idiot. Michael is now standing in Zion (Daniel 12:1; Matthew 24:15-22).” [This kind note was sent to me in reply to my simply request that he stop sending me his “prophecies.”]

“It is not Myron LeFevre and CCM who are destroying Christianity in America. It is the ADL and all of the Zionist-controlled organizations who are to blame. Notice how Jews and Judaizers are taking over Christian radio and TV.”

“I just think there are many paths to the One GOD and it is not within any ONE perception or name that we can call the God anything but the I AM or THE ALL. I mean we are spiritual beings here on earth having a human experience, so why slam humanity, creativity? Well let me say this -- music sooths the savage beast..... in all forms. ... Thanks for reading, if you did. Peace and Love to you from a Hippie, Pagan, Unitarian!”

“You are so wrong in your interpretation of the Beatles and especially George Harrison and John Lennon. I won't bother to go into the debate with you over the whether or not George Harrison is a Christian or not, I know for a fact that he was, but as far as the Beatles are concerned they collectively gave this world an injection of LOVE which it so desperately needs and perhaps they showed religion for what it truly is; a ‘Classical Mess’.  ... God is Love and that is what the Beatles stand for!”

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