Musings of a Fundamentalist

 Whose side are you on? The side of holiness, or the side of Hollywood?  Many preachers who stand against Hollywood are called, "the folks who take the fun out of fundamentalism" and believers often run to the aid of Hollywood rather than the support of the preacher. But it's not just preachers who find themselves getting attacked when they take on Hollywood.  A layman may write a blog waxing eloquent about the blood of Christ, and at best receive a nice pat on the back, yet if that same layman hints at the idea that the Star Wars saga has objectionable eastern religion permeating the messages of the film, then that layman is vilified as an extremist fundamentalist who gives all other fundamentalists a bad reputation.  This layman may not even prohibit the films—only warn of the eastern mysticism.  Here are a few examples of men from different backgrounds at different stages in their life who dared to challenge Hollywood, and had New-Evangelical/New-Fundamentali...

Are you a Fundamentalist? Fundamentalism is a movement that holds to the preeminence of the preaching of the Word of God. Years ago a man who had been in the ministry for some years told me he was discontinuing the Sunday evening service at his church. He said that people were tired and that they needed fellowship. His change of focus flies in the face of God's revealed truth for it diminishes the importance of the preaching of the Word, and it denigrates the importance of the Lord's Day. Now years have passed since that brief exchange. It is evident that the conversation I had with a long-time pastor was not an action undertaken by one pastor, but one example of an attitude that was prevalent at that time. An attitude--even a philosophy of ministry--that was casting off or diminishing the value the New Testament places on the preaching of the Word. More recently, in just the past fe w months, a young woman asked my wife and I where we were headed one Sunday evening. I resp...

                                                           Getty There are enough similarities between CCM type worship and the Golden Calf worship of Bible times to warrant the shunning of CCM by the people of God. First lets define CCM, and what better way to inform others about CCM than to publish what a CCM advocate says about it. According to afm.org " Christian Music has been around in some form for almost 2000 years, since the time of Christ. But what exactly is Contemporary Christian Music? Before the early 1970's, Christian Music could be categorized as either Traditional Hymns, Southern Gospel or as Traditional Black Gospel styles. From the Peace Movement of the late 1960's came a time of Christian revival for young people across the country. This concurrent movement was known as the Jesus Movement. From the Jesus Movement, came ...