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Let’s Go Soulwinning
Let’s Go Soulwinning by Jack Hyles The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. Proverbs 11:30 Soulwinning — the art, the endeavor of sharing the gospel with...
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The Day Abraham Blew Himself Up at Emmanuel Baptist Church
For Sale Sign in Main Entrance Door, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Pontiac, Michigan I attended Midwestern Baptist College in the mid 1970’s. All dorm students were required to attend Emmanuel Baptist...
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I’m Not Preaching Now, I’m Telling the Truth
I attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan from 1976-1979. Midwestern, started in 1954 by Alabama preacher Tom Malone, was a small fundamentalist Baptist college. Malone pastored...
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Why Many IFB Preachers Don’t Have Peaceful, Contented Lives
For Sale Sign in Main Entrance Door, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Pontiac, Michigan The Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church movement is a subset under the broad banner of Evangelicalism. IFB...
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The Preacher Goes to the XXX Movie House
I grew up in rural Northwest Ohio. We didn’t have XXX movie houses or strip clubs. In Bryan, Ohio, only two establishments sold adult magazines. I was nineteen and a student at Midwestern Baptist...
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Public Expressions of Faith and the Future of American Evangelicalism
Cartoon by Jeff Larson I came of age in the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church movement. At the age of fifteen, I was saved, baptized, and called to preach at Trinity Baptist Church in...
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1976-1978: The Midwestern Baptist College Dorm Snack Room
Polly Shope and Bruce Gerencser, February 1977, Midwestern Baptist College Sweetheart Banquet It was late September 1975. I had driven to Phoenix to spend the weekend with my twenty-year-old...
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IFB Church Movement: Win Them, Wet Them, Work Them, Waste Them
Cartoon by David Hayward, The Naked Pastor The Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church movement traces its genesis back to the debate over modernism within Evangelical — primarily Baptist —...
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My Recent Interview with McKinnon Mitchell
McKinnon Mitchell is working on a documentary about young-earth creationist and convicted felon Kent Hovind. Hovind attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan in the 1970s, as did my...
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Preachers Who Influenced Me: Dr. Tom Malone Asks “Can America Survive?”
In 1971, Dr. Tom Malone, chancellor of Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan, and pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, preached a sermon titled, Can American Survive? What follows is an...
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Midwestern Baptist College: A Character-Building Factory — Part One
Sophomore class, Midwestern Baptist College, Pontiac, Michigan 1976. Polly is in the first row, the first person on the left. Bruce is in the third row, the eighth person from the left Series...
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Bruce, What Happened to Emmanuel Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan?
For Sale Sign in Main Entrance Door, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Pontiac, Michigan I recently received the following email from a reader named Dan: I wrote before but never received any response. I just...
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Short Stories: Hawking Jesus and Candy Bars at Midwestern Baptist College
Freshman class, Midwestern Baptist College, Pontiac, Michigan 1976 My wife, Polly, and I attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan from 1976 to 1979. Midwestern was a small, affordable,...
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My Response to Richard Boltin, an IFB Apologist
Over the weekend, I received an email from an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) man from Texas named Richard Boltin. Here’s what he had to say (all spelling and grammar in the original): I was...
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Is it Possible to Reform the IFB Church Movement?
For Sale Sign in Front of Midwestern Baptist College. The property was eventually sold and turned into apartments and a senior center. Several years ago, I was interviewed for the Preacher Boys...
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