Free Will Baptist National Convention: Reflections from Grand Rapids
by the Helwys Society Forum This past week, over 3,000 Free Will Baptist (FWB) youth, parents, pastors, exhibitors, and church leaders converged on the beautiful northern city of Grand Rapids, Michigan for their 79th annual National Convention. While the overall attendance was down from the prior year, it was a noteworthy and significant event. Five of the six Forum contributors were among those attending, and we were blessed to...
Recommended Books (Summer 2015)
You may have noticed that a sizable proportion of books carried by bookstores (Christian and non-Christian alike) are very poor in quality. The reason, of course, is that cheap easy books sell better than more demanding titles. As Donald Stauffer wrote in The Nature of Poetry, “A debased currency will always drive out the genuine article, and there are plenty of ways today to get others to do our thinking and our feeling for us.”[1]...
Book Recommendations (Spring 2015)
School’s out for summer! Whether we spent the last several months slogging through assigned reading, reading students’ assignments, or helping our children with homework, we all feel a sense of relief when the semester finally ends. However, don’t let that relief translate into a lazy reading regimen! Below we at the Helwys Society Forum have provided some of our recent finds and favorite repeat-reads from the last several months....
Book Recommendations (Winter 2015)
Learning to apply the principles of Scripture to our daily lives is a matter that demands serious contemplation and commitment. We desire to be good stewards of what God has given us, including our abilities, opportunities, finances, and responsibilities. Often it can be helpful to work through the implications of biblical principles with a friend—two heads are better than one after all. This quarter’s selection of recommended books...
Top Posts 2014
by Helwys Society Forum 2014 has been a good year for the Helwys Society Forum. We began a new feature, entitled Reflections, wherein we occasionally post a 75-150 word reflection, usually from something we’ve been reading. Additionally, we have published about 75 posts. We have added a regular contributor, Zach Maloney. We featured numerous guest contributors, including Jeffrey Cockrell, Matthew McAffee, Frank Owens, and many others....
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