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Matt Olmstead Named Director of RBP

Matt Olmstead Named Director of RBP Regular Baptist Ministries is delighted to announce the appointment of Matt Olmstead as director of Regular Baptist Press. He began serving in this role October 31. Matt, who displays a passion for God’s Word and church music, recognizes the…
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RBP 2023 Annual Report

I am glad to have had the privilege of filling the role of RBP director on an interim basis over the past year. Adding those responsibilities has been challenging, but God has provided the strength and wisdom to accomplish His…
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Dueling Prophecies

Dueling Prophecies Jesus and Peter made dueling prophecies. Only one could come true. On the night He was betrayed, Jesus prophesied that all His disciples would be made to stumble. He supported His prophecy by quoting Zechariah 13:7, saying that God would…
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RBP Director Update

RBP Director Update ELGIN, Ill.—Regular Baptist Press continues to provide churches with educational resources that are true to God’s Word and encourage maturity in Christ. To help us accomplish that purpose, we are currently searching for a new director of Regular Baptist Press.…
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RBP 2022 Annual Report

RBP 2022 Annual Report This will be my final annual report as director of Regular Baptist Press. I have begun a new ministry as professor of systematic theology at Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pa. I would like to take this opportunity to…
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It Only Took Three Days

It Only Took Three Days Three days. That’s all it took for death to turn to life, darkness to blazing light, and unbridled despair to infinite hope. “Destroy this temple,” Jesus had said, referring to His own body. “And in three days I will raise…
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Remember the Coming of the Light

Remember the Coming of the Light On the first day of Creation, God made the light, and He separated the light from the darkness (Gen. 1:3–4). Mankind fell into sin only a short time later (Gen. 3), and ever since then we…
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RBP 2021 Annual Report

RBP 2021 Annual Report This has been a year of uncertainty for Regular Baptist Press, but by God’s grace we are still here and we are still pursuing our mission of glorifying God by producing church educational resources that are true to God’s Word…
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God the Son Cannot Be Contained

God the Son Cannot Be Contained Springtime is a vivid reminder that death is not the end. As summer gives way to autumn and autumn to winter, we witness in the natural world the process of living things succumbing inevitably to their own mortality. It is…
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A Resolution for Holiness

A Resolution for Holiness If you’re looking for a New Year’s resolution for 2021, I’ve always liked one of Jonathan Edwards’s: “Resolved, never to give over, nor in the least to slacken my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be.” The “fight…
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Something Worth Remembering, Celebrating, and Treasuring

Something Worth Remembering, Celebrating, and Treasuring There’s a fascinating passage in Joshua 4 related to the parting of the Jordan River. The Children of Israel are about to cross the Jordan and enter the Promised Land after multiple decades of expectation and planning. Right in the…
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Thanksgiving, Ingratitude, and Idolatry

Thanksgiving, Ingratitude, and Idolatry By David Gunn The pages of the New Testament are positively saturated with the concept of giving thanks. By my count, the epistles discuss the importance of Christians giving thanks to God eight times. The New Testament writers mention their…
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“Captive to the Word of God”

“Captive to the Word of God” The Protestant Reformation began humbly on October 31, 1517. When Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the castle chapel door in Wittenberg, Germany, he wasn’t really intending it as a grand revolutionary act. Nailing theses to church doors was…
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Overcoming a Competitive Spirit

Overcoming a Competitive Spirit This year’s Regular Baptist Books releases is No Contest: Overcoming a Competitive Spirit by Mike Hess. No Contest deals with competitiveness and comparisons from a Biblical point of view. By applying Scriptural commands and principles, Mike helps readers conquer the…
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RBP 2020 Annual Report

As I write this report, our state (along with many others) has been on COVID-19 lockdown for just over two months. This situation has been disastrous for businesses all across the country, and Regular Baptist Press is no exception. Our…
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Absolutely Sure

Absolutely Sure In the nineteenth century, a fascinating exchange of letters took place between Queen Victoria and the English evangelist John Townsend. After attending a service at St. Paul’s cathedral, the queen had asked her chaplain, “Can one be absolutely sure in…
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Changing Times and a Changeless God

Changing Times and a Changeless God Times change. Sometimes they change rapidly. Just a few months ago, COVID-19 seemed very vague, distant, and shadowy. Today, the virus has completely reshaped the way we view the world and interact with one another. As I write these words,…
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Our Blessed Hope

Our Blessed Hope The New Testament Scriptures are saturated with hope. This is not a wishy-washy, wishful-thinking kind of hope, like the concept that hope most often communicates in English (“I sure hope they aren’t out of coleslaw already”); rather, New Testament hope…
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Why Originalism? Part 3

Why Originalism? Part 3 Common Objections and Questions Previously, we argued that the soundest hermeneutical approach is what we are calling originalism. (Read part 1 and part 2.) This method restricts itself to the original meaning of a text as determined by the…
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Why Originalism? Part 2

Why Originalism? Part 2 The superiority of an originalist hermeneutic In the previous article, I suggested that there are three essential principles for an originalist interpretation of Scripture: the text means what the author meant; the text means what it says; and the…
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Easter Is Going to Be a Little Different This Year

Easter Is Going to Be a Little Different This Year Easter is going to be a little different this year. How could it not be? With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the nation and most states currently under a shelter-in-place order, maintaining our cherished Easter traditions has become all but…
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Why Originalism?

Why Originalism? Far too often we like to discuss theology or Christian living without first addressing the more fundamental issue: hermeneutics, the art and science of interpreting the Scriptures. When Jesus was interrogated on a point of theology (“What shall I do…
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“Living Is Killing Us”

“Living Is Killing Us” To be human is to be incurably curious. From the moment we become capable of abstract thought, we begin to ponder the mysteries of the universe. Where did I come from? Why am I here? What is the meaning and…
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Merry Christmas from Regular Baptist Press

Merry Christmas from Regular Baptist Press The year is nearly over, and that means Christmas will be upon us soon. I’ve been reflecting on the profundity of that silent, holy night in the little town of Bethlehem. The story is so familiar and the greeting card…
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God Never Changes

God Never Changes Ironically, one of the few constants in life is change. As I write this, I am sitting on my back porch gazing at the treetops, a seemingly endless expanse of red, gold, and brown. Not too long ago all these…
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RBP 2019 Annual Report

RBP 2019 Annual Report This year has been both challenging and rewarding for RBP. The work on the Strong Kids curriculum revision has occupied a great deal of energy and thought, and as I write this report, we are just over halfway through with…
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The Pro-Life Movement Is on the Right Side of History . . . and Science

The Pro-Life Movement Is on the Right Side of History . . . and Science Recent events have thrust the issue of abortion back into the public spotlight. Now the culture war’s battle lines are being redrawn in familiar places as pundits, partisans, and politicians line up to yell at and talk past one another.…
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Happy Easter from Regular Baptist Press

Happy Easter from Regular Baptist Press The climax of history is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Until that glorious Sunday morning nearly two millennia ago, mankind languished under the curse of Adam and all the destructive penalties it entailed. Our condition was defined by depravity. Our…
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The Importance of Biblical Separation

The Importance of Biblical Separation Regular Baptist Press has always emphasized the importance of Biblical Separation—the notion that the Christian church cannot and must not fellowship with those who deny the fundamentals of the faith. The abiding relevance of this doctrine was recently underscored by…
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What Do Regular Baptists Believe about Lent?

What Do Regular Baptists Believe about Lent? Easter is fast approaching! One of the questions we routinely receive around this time of year is, What do Regular Baptists believe about Lent? So GARBC national representative Mike Hess and I sat down to discuss this question on a…
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The Greatest Gift of All

The Greatest Gift of All Every year I agonize over which gifts to buy my children for Christmas. It isn’t always easy to find the perfect present or group of presents for them. I have to take into account their unique interests, their current ages…
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Colin Kaepernick and Nike: Believe in . . . Something?

Colin Kaepernick and Nike: Believe in . . . Something? The new ad campaign from Nike has attracted an enormous amount of social media attention. Pictured in the ad is Colin Kaepernick, the former 49ers quarterback who ignited a firestorm of controversy two years ago with his decision to kneel…
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The Need for a Regular Baptist Commentary Series

The Need for a Regular Baptist Commentary Series There is a fascinating account in Nehemiah 8. The seventy years of captivity in Babylon are over. Cyrus has decreed the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and many have answered that call. Now, we read, the returnees…
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Happy Easter from RBP

Happy Easter from RBP Picture the scene: an empty, uninviting tomb, hewn from the rock. It is utterly dark and dank and desolate. Its only occupant is a bloodied and battered corpse that has been wrapped in cloths and laid on a stone slab.…
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Reflections on Billy Graham, Fundamentalism, and the Legacy of a Godly Man

Reflections on Billy Graham, Fundamentalism, and the Legacy of a Godly Man by David Gunn Billy Graham was a remarkable man. He was known the world over not only as a passionate gospel preacher, but also as a pastor to presidents and as something of a statesman, the public face of evangelicalism.…
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No Greater Friend

No Greater Friend There is a profound statement in John 13:1. As the gospel narrative prepares to transition from the days of Jesus’ general ministry to the final hours of His life, the apostle records of Jesus that “having loved His own who…
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Cutting through the Chaos

Cutting through the Chaos Is it just me, or has life become a lot more chaotic lately? Every day, the news cycle is a veritable avalanche of scandal, catastrophe, and drama. The airwaves and smartphone screens are chockablock full of bad news and ill…
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Merry Christmas from RBP

Merry Christmas from RBP The late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had a story he liked to tell about his graduation from Georgetown University in 1957. In those days, Georgetown required its baccalaureate students to pass a comprehensive oral exam in their chosen major…
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David Gunn Named Director of RBP

David Gunn Named Director of RBP In September Regular Baptist Ministries announced the appointment of David Gunn as director of Regular Baptist Press. Gunn had joined the RBP staff in 2014 as editorial director of publications and managing editor of the Baptist Bulletin. He comes…
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Publishing for Maturity

Publishing for Maturity The mission statement of any organization is what drives it and keeps it on course. Our mission statement at Regular Baptist Press is simple and to the point. We are committed to glorifying God by providing church educational resources that…
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Merry Christmas from RBP

Merry Christmas from RBP Christmas greetings from Regular Baptist Press! As the year comes to a close, I wanted to express my sincere appreciation to all of you who purchased and put to use our RBP products either personally or in your ministries. All…
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Advancing the RBP Story

Advancing the RBP Story by John F. Klem Life’s journey does not always go as expected. When Cathy and I moved to Florida three years ago, we planned to settle in for the long term. In fact, we brought her parents with us so…
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A Jazzed-Up Sunday School?

A Jazzed-Up Sunday School? by John F. Klem The Wall Street Journal recently published an article entitled, “How Churches Are Rethinking Sunday School.” The author, Melanie Grayce West, documents how several New York City churches are rethinking and redesigning the traditional approach to Sunday…
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GARBC 2012 Annual Report

Regular Baptist Press is the publishing arm of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches. The GARBC conducts an annual business meeting during each annual GARBC conference. The following is an excerpt of the Baptist Bulletin article detailing the 2012…
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Curriculum That Is on Target

Curriculum That Is on Target Nearly every summer while I was growing up, my family would load up the station wagon and head to family camp in Genoa, Neb. During a particular week when my three brothers and I were all around 12, we took…
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