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wutbju · 16 hours
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I found this ad for “free” Scantrons in the BJU Campus Store in 2011.
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wutbju · 22 hours
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It is Holy Week. It's time to remember the sins that put Jesus on the cross.
Just before Bob Jones' infamous 1960 sermon, "Is Segregation Scriptural?" the BJU Alumni Association ...
called for an investigation of the National Council of Churches by the House of un-American Activities Committee.
They went on to praise BJU for "providing
aggressive, uncompromising, consistent Christian leadership in a day of religious and moral confusion.
The Alumni Association officers were Daniel Krusich, Mrs. G. G. Jackson (Larry Jackson's mother), Robert Pratt, and Dale King. Dwight Gustafson presided over the meeting.
Why did BJU think that the NCC deserved to be the object of a HUAC witch hunt? A month earlier the Air Force released a new manual (Student Text NR. 45-0050, INCR.V, Vol. 7, a 250-page guide for reserve noncoms, from the manual writing section at the Air Force's Lackland Military Training Center in San Antonio) which stated:
Communists and Communist fellow travelers have successfully infiltrated into our churches … It is known that even the pastors of certain of our churches are card-carrying Communists.... The National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. officially sponsored the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
The genius who slipped that into a military manual was Billy James Hargis trained Oklahoman, Homer H. Hyde.
Why is this important? Why is this a sin?
Because BJU wielded its small influence not for the Gospel but for a mere reactionary conspiracy theory which was nothing more than cunning projection from a sexual predator.
We have to stop that. We're still doing that. See God & Country for proof.
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wutbju · 2 days
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This little ad was from the 1955 Sword of the Lord. I don’t know much about the Big Brother Tract Band, do you?
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wutbju · 2 days
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It is Holy Week. It's time to remember the sins that put Jesus on the cross.
One hundred years ago today in Marshall, Texas, Bob Jones, Sr. preached on the Lazarus and the Rich Man. Before he began, however, he stated:
All sorts of rumors are started when a revival meeting reaches the stage this one has reached. We have not time to answer all these things, but they just will be started. For instance, it is reported that last night, after the meeting here, Mr. Storrs, Mr. Grimes and I attended a meeting of the klan. That is true. We did attend a klan meeting. At the invitation of the leaders of the klan when the services were over last night, I went to their meeting to tell a few members of the Christ. It may surprise some of you to know that I found in that meeting five preachers, and about forty-five deacons and elders of your churches here. I go through every open door to preach the religion of Jesus Christ. There were a few men in the klan here, I was told, who did not profess any religious affiliation. It was to these few I went to preach. I will go anywhere to preach the gospel of our Savior, and I do not apologize for going to that meeting.
The 1920s KKK was not an open group that allowed just anybody to come in and speak. This is dramatic, and it's from Bob Jones, Sr.'s own mouth. He spoke at a Klan meeting.
How was this possible? How did he justify it? I know he says he did it to "preach the gospel of our Savior," but the Klan members had already taken a vow that they believed in Protestant doctrine. So that's not it. That's not the case.
I set out to understand this six years ago. It took that long to wrap my head around this statement and what it meant for Bob Jones, what it meant for Marshall Texas....
And what it means for me and for you, as those who have inherited Bob Jones' ideology.
But for now, we must all confess that this is our heritage. This is our Klandamentalism -- our sin.
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wutbju · 3 days
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This statement is from the Sword of the Lord in May 21, 1948. This National Association Committee would become the ACSI. The code is so very typical for the time.
The National Association Evangelicals Committee on Christian Philosophy of Education, suggests that Christian people begin an active nation-wide protest against anti-Christian teaching in grade schools, high schools, state colleges and state universities, since the Supreme Court now rules that school buildings may not be used for released time education. If the schools cannot cooperate with Christians, they certainly should not cooperate with anti-Christian groups. Since the schools cannot be for the Bible, they certainly have no right to be against the Bible in educational teaching. Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein, chairman of the committee, Headmaster of Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, New York, makes the report.
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wutbju · 3 days
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It is Holy Week. It's time to remember the sins that put Jesus on the cross.
Our sins that put Jesus on the cross.
There is no better exposure and confession of our sins as white evangelical Americans than the latest documentary, God & Country.
You can view it on Amazon Prime.
Watch it. Confess and repent.
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wutbju · 4 days
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Remember when Strossner’s was right by campus?
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wutbju · 4 days
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Who was the BJU board member back in 1977ish- when Bob Wood was first appointed-with whom Wood developed a “scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” relationship. A well known Greenville businessman-banker, lawyer, CEO…something similar.
Laurence Lautenbach? Charles Bell? William Henry Belk Simpson!!? That was THE Belk Simpson dude.
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wutbju · 5 days
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Binswanger Glass!
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wutbju · 6 days
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Hughes Real Estate developed both Kmarts? Really??
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wutbju · 6 days
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And this is likely the reason Mazak was more accommodating than authoritarian in his introduction. He was about to be conclusive where the rest of the speakers were imprecise (here and here).
He plainly defines despair:
Depression is despair or 'hopelessness.'
No Ifs, Ands, or Buts.
And while Dr. Dionne said the word "depression" is not in the Bible, Mazak says it is.
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Of course, he had to go to a different translation to find it.
Misunderstanding Jesus' words, putting everything into a single rhyming sentence, and cherry-picking verses and translations--what could go wrong!?
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wutbju · 7 days
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I do not believe that graduates “regret” that they could no longer attend Vespers.
The Sunday afternoon vesper services at Bob Jones University are so unique and impressive that they serve as a widely known hallmark for the school. Since spiritual truths can often be more forcefully impressed on hearts and minds both audibly when presented both audibly and visually, dramatic techniques are combined with letter-perfect artistry in these services.
With elaborate staging equipment, lighting, costumes, and background, the emotional impact of the correlated message in recitation, drama, and music is heightened. High quality is the fundamental aim of those who are responsible for these programs, and shoddy performances are not tolerated.
Students and faculty members who participate in vesper services practice their parts weeks in advance. Each quartet number or choral rendition, each piano or voice solo, each recitation or dramatic performance is carefully checked by a faculty member of the particular department before final approval is given for vespers.
Many different phases are involved in the production of these services. The divisions of speech, cinema, and music provide the speakers, actors, technicians, and musical part of the program, as well as taking care of the settings, lighting effects, costuming and make up required. And the directors make sure that these all fit together into an integrated pattern.
A vesper program may include on one particular Sunday a brass choir; the recitation of several pieces of inspiring religious literature; a mixed quartet; a piano or organ solo; a brief drama; and a choral number of a well-known oratorio.
Many of the original arrangements for the vocal and instrumental numbers are prepared by students and faculty in the music department. Often the dramatic presentation is written by a student or faculty member.
PLANNED AHEAD
The themes of the vesper services are planned at least a semester in advance. Each semester there are four directors in charge of the programs. During the present semester the directors are Mrs. James D. Edwards, Mrs. Alan Waite, Coretta Johnson and Robert Pratt, all faculty members in the speech department.
Among the themes being presented this semester are: "Success" (Voices of Regret and Success); "The Bible" (with costumes); "The Judgment" (Jer. 8:20); "Thanksgiving"; "Faith of Our Fathers" (Contend for the Faith); "Responsibility" (Duty); "Submission" (Godliness with Great Contentment); "Patriotic"; and "Words" (Idle words, words fitly spoken, words that have changed lives). An oratorio will be presented on November 26.
Since the vespers at the university are both inspirational and cultural, they attract hundreds of visitors each Sunday from the Greenville area, as well as from other places. People from other states visiting in Greenville over a weekend often attend. Although the service starts at 4 p.m. each Sunday during the school year, visitors should plan to get to the Rodeheaver Auditorium by 3:30 in order to be sure to get a seat.Graduates of BJU who have gone out across the nation often expressed regret that they were no longer able to experience the blessing of attending one of the university's unusual vesper services. They wished that some of the material and programs used for these services were available for them to use perhaps on a smaller scale in their local churches.
Thus a book containing some of the vesper services and entitled "Sound His Glories Forth" was compiled by two members of the faculty, Elizabeth Edwards and Gladys Besancon. It was published by Baker Book House in 1965. The programs in it can be used for churches and schools.
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wutbju · 7 days
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This is meaningless. Utterly meaningless.
Mazak is citing Matthew 15 at this spot. And Jesus' point is somewhat the opposite of where Mazak is going.
Jesus is saying, in sum, that the sin isn't OUT THERE. The sin is in HERE. In other words, separating from harlots and tax collectors does you no good because you yourself are a sinner.
That's not where Mazak is going. Mazak is instead saying that a person's depression isn't because of a chemical imbalance or a difficult set of circumstances or unresolved trauma.
The person's depression is the result of their sin.
Jesus is so not saying that at all in any way.
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wutbju · 8 days
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Yes, discount boys pajamas and “unusual universities” go hand-in-hand. What is Dixie Shoppers World?
It was over there by that very old Dairy Queen on that side of Greenville. And they sold all kinds of what-not.
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wutbju · 8 days
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This is not really ominous. It's just curious.
When the Board meets on Holy Wednesday and Maundy Thursday, they will not be meeting in the fancy schmancy Board room in the Library.
They'll be in the regular ol' Student Center.
What happened to the Board room?
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wutbju · 9 days
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Oneal-Williams Sporting Goods is considered a historic property!
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wutbju · 9 days
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A WutBJU reader wanted to be sure we called attention to Greg Mazak's falderal in the BJU Seminary CORE Conference. You can watch it here.
The most dramatic thing about Mazak's talk is that he's not a complete authoritarian. He's actually conceding that people might have a different view. It's kind of startling to hear him be . . . well, accommodating.
But you can't ignore the fact that he's still reduces everything he teaches to rhyming proverbs like:
Root determines fruit.
Yes, Jesus does say that every tree is known by its fruit. But, Greg, no tree bears fruit continuously. There are dormant seasons and even well, seasons where it looks like the tree is dead.
Take, for instance, my raspberry bed yesterday. It was a mess. I needed to do a spring clean-up. This is the time of year for pruning. And in the same bed, of course, are sawbriar plants with the raspberry. Both are vines. Both have thorns. Neither are blooming right now.
Now I can tell the difference between them. But it's not because of the fruit. If I were to cut off all the vines that weren't bearing fruit in March, I would be kind of a dingaling. Nothing has fruit in March.
There's a time to rest and a time to reap. A time to prune and a time to wait. That's what gardening is.
And remember, Greg, what the fruit of the spirit actually is:
Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Joy, there, is chara. If you dig into that, it sounds like Paul is saying that God will give you occasions to rejoice. It's not saying that you won't ever be sad or depressed or even hopeless. It's not saying that if God is not producing joy in you at this moment or all the time, the Spirit is not in you. Nor is it saying that if you feel sad or depressed you're not a Christian.
We know that's where you are headed.
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