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Who needs formal education?
“Who needs formal education? We have the internet and more books than we can read. Why can’t I just educate myself by reading?” The view has a certain appeal to it. Getting access to enough information is certainly not our problem in 2023! But already, it points to a...
Wanting to Quit
by Pastor Bud Talbert One virtue that spiritual maturity produces is patient continuance in well doing (Rom 2:7). Paul admonishes the Ephesians to keep alert with all perseverance (6:18 ESV). The term used here means to persist in an undertaking or circumstance. James...
Frederick William Robertson
By Bud Talbert Frederick William Robertson (1816-1853) was born in London, the son of a captain in the Royal Artillery. He grew up admiring his father and longing for a military career himself. At the age of 18 he applied for a commission in the Third Dragoons which...
Accreditation, New Class Schedule, Online Classes… So Many Opportunities!
It has been too long since we updated you about the progress at Foundation Baptist College. God has given us much grace this year and many exciting things are happening. We have now formed a partnership with Maranatha Baptist University, giving our graduates a pathway...
Yahweh is Our Elohim
By Pastor Bud Talbert The phrase “I am the LORD your God” is found forty-two times in the Old Testament, twenty-one in Leviticus alone. Just as Yahweh, the personal name of God indicated in English by all capital letters, is Israel’s God instead of all the Egyptian...
God Knows
by Pastor Bud Talbert Exodus 2:23-23 is explaining part of the prelude that led up to God delivering the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. ESV “23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried...
Cold
by Pastor Bud Talbert I am looking over the fourteen-day forecast. The evening lows are -25-30 degrees Celsius (which translates for our American friends to -13-22 degrees Fahrenheit)! Thankfully, the forecast for precipitation (i.e. only snow) hovers for the entire...
The Incomprehensibility of God
I finish my prayer time about every other day by thanking God in the words of Psalm 145:1-3 “I will extol You, my God and King, and bless Your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless You and praise Your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly...
The Presence of the LORD
by Pastor Bud Talbert The Old Testament Tabernacle was especially noted as a place where God’s unique presence dwelled. Hannah would bring the newly weaned Samuel to “appear in the presence of the LORD (i.e. at the Tabernacle) and dwell there forever.” (1 Sam 1:22)...
The Sovereignty of God
by Pastor Bud Talbert Revelation 4 is a chapter permeated with divine sovereignty. John, “in the Spirit”, is invited heavenward (“Come up here” “a door standing open in heaven”) to see a vision of God who brings to pass future events (“I will show you what must take...