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Hometown Hope equips struggling Independent Baptist churches for revitalization and sustainable spiritual health, empowering leaders and congregations to thrive faithfully in their mission.
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A Key to Spiritual Health - Church Attendance
In our generation, there are many types of churches, with each one vying for your attendance. There are Fundamentalist and Separatist...
Brent Madaris
May 9, 20223 min read
Discipleship
Discipleship I want to speak to you today about a very important subject. That subject is discipleship. The word “disciple(s)” is found...
Brent Madaris
May 9, 20223 min read
God's Little Acres
I want to introduce you to Steve and Michelle Edsel. They are the owners / operators of God's Little Acres, Westfield North Carolina. The...
Brent Madaris
May 8, 20221 min read
He Loves Me; He Loves Me Not - Part 2
This article is a two-parter. If you did not read the first part, you may find it here: https://www.hometownhopeministriesinc.com/post/he...
Brent Madaris
Apr 22, 20224 min read
What Is A Biblical Fundamentalist?
Chappel, Paul. What Is a Biblical Fundamentalist? Striving Together Publications, Lancaster CA. 2005 This is a helpful little book on the...
Brent Madaris
Apr 20, 202210 min read
He Loves Me - He Loves Me Not
I write these words primarily to believers who may be struggling with whether God really loves them. There is also direction and comfort...
Brent Madaris
Apr 14, 20223 min read
The Potter's Promise - A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology
Flowers, Leighton. The Potter’s Promise - A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology. Middletown, Delaware. Trinity Academic Press,...
Brent Madaris
Apr 5, 20224 min read
The "Man of God"
Is the phrase “Man of God” appropriate to use today. Some people mock the designation. What does the Bible say?
Brent Madaris
Mar 29, 20227 min read
Systematic Theology Texts And the Age of the Earth
Mortenson, Terry. “Systematic Theology Texts and the Age of the Earth: A Response to the Views of Erickson, Grudem, and Lewis and...
Brent Madaris
Mar 24, 20222 min read
The God of the (supposed) Impossible
I want you to read Mark 9:14-29 This story tells about one of the few times when Jesus cast out an evil spirit. When Jesus and his three...
Brent Madaris
Mar 21, 20223 min read
DOING RIGHT - DOING WRONG
I heard a discussion recently that flies in the face of some modern philosophy, but that is thoroughly biblical, insightful, and...
Brent Madaris
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Love Covers A Multitude of Sins
1 Peter 4:8 8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. This truth is...
Brent Madaris
Mar 4, 20224 min read
Should Parents Go To Church With Their Children?
Answers For the Heart! I find it fascinating (and somewhat disturbing) that such a question would even have to be asked. It would seem...
Brent Madaris
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Hypocrisy and the Authority of the Word of God - Part 2
You must read part one of this article to make any sense at all out this weeks. You may read last week’s article on my blog HERE Here is...
Brent Madaris
Feb 17, 20223 min read
Something Smells Fishy Around Here!
Fish are good for you from a health perspective. Of course this implies that you are not allergic to it. Some of the benefits which have...
Brent Madaris
Feb 17, 20222 min read
"Peculiar"
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good...
Brent Madaris
Feb 16, 20226 min read
Hypocrisy and the Authority of the Word of God!
Jesus didn’t have much use for the Pharisees of His day. He wold call them out every chance he got. The modern day pharisees are not...
Brent Madaris
Feb 14, 20223 min read
Gravely Sick Baby Saved by "Rapid Sequencing" - The Importance of thorough History!
A very interesting story coming out of San Diego California shows the great hope and promise of Genomic Decoding! What in the world is...
Brent Madaris
Feb 12, 20222 min read
Living Together Out of Wedlock
I will deal with this sensitive topic as tactfully as possible. However, I need to also be very straightforward because this is a huge...
Brent Madaris
Feb 10, 20224 min read
EXPERIMENTAL TRUTH
Answers FOR the Heart So then, we have been talking about truth and living it out in our lives. Let’s briefly describe how this looks...
Brent Madaris
Feb 3, 20223 min read
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