tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82359142024-03-06T23:46:25.297-05:00Gleanings of Grace"The sovereign electing grace of God
chooses us to repentance, to faith, and
afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian
service, to zeal, and to devotion." - Charles SpurgeonEric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comBlogger310125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-86965055401622328362014-08-03T08:56:00.002-04:002014-08-03T08:56:44.911-04:00
We set up Brush Fire Forum to be an online community
composed of hundreds of like-minded individuals providing resources and
promoting reasonable conversation about preserving faith, self, family, and
community in the turbulent times in which we live.
Brush Fire Forum is a strictly not-for-profit venture, and
the content we provide (including frequent contributors who are nationally
Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-28531662551372423012013-04-06T13:40:00.001-04:002013-04-06T13:40:51.933-04:00leadership
#Leadership
LeaderShift, Oliver DeMille
Seven Habits of Highly.., Stephen Covey
Principled Center Leadership, Stephen Covey
Towards the Meaning of Life, Simon Jacobson
Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
Fruits of Solitude, William Penn
25 Days to Better Thinking, Richard Paul & Linda Elder
Who Moved my Cheese, SpencerEric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-43244293129966206652013-04-04T13:58:00.001-04:002013-04-04T13:58:13.925-04:00On Origins of a Social Movement
We are extremely excited at the launch of the first of many Brush Fire Pamphlets. These will be e-books available for your kindle or downloadable on our site for free. They will be more interactive and entertaining than tradition books you may be used to and condensed with the facts and information you need. And while most you can read in a single 20 minute setting they are packed full of Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-87198522335308342362013-03-27T15:21:00.001-04:002013-03-27T15:21:57.033-04:00critical thinking
Doing democracy
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On Origins of Social Movements, Eric Wilson
Kindle - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B0QN12C/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00B0QN12C&linkCode=as2&tag=ky912-20
Freedom Shift, Oliver DeMile
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This, however, is not the way of Christ. It is a denial of the Gospel and a Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-24793518548064012512009-05-14T18:03:00.000-04:002009-05-14T18:04:05.901-04:00WHAT DO YOU PUBLISH?Brother Barnard once said, “Henry, be careful what you publish! If you preach and teach unwisely and impulsively you can apologize, retract your statements and make amends for your attitude and spirit, but when you put a matter down on paper, send it to the printer and distribute it – it is there for all time and continues to find its way into the hands of men. It might be wise to wait patiently Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-86891945825800562702009-05-14T07:16:00.001-04:002009-05-14T07:16:41.187-04:00RELIGION PROMOTES FEARReligion promotes a number of fears. By encouraging human pride they produce a fear of failure. By elevating self-righteousness they instill a fear of shame. By magnifying man’s intelligence they advance a fear of ignorance. By upholding free will and human ability they create a fear of weakness. By far, the number one fear by which they maintain the faithfulness of their adherents is th e fear Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-44032879244516930022009-05-09T13:07:00.000-04:002009-05-09T13:08:16.606-04:00With A KissJudas betrayed his Master with a KISS! He came to the Lord with evil in his heart, the price of a compromise in his hand, religious devils at his side, and said, “Hail Master”, as he planted a KISS on the Lord’s cheek! This is how most apostates and compromisers operate: they betray the Son of God and the Gospel of grace WITH A KISS. They talk of love, humility, morality, and sugar and spice Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-51062469541658210332007-04-26T18:07:00.000-04:002007-04-26T18:08:39.278-04:00But Christ by John GillThen Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (John 6:68)As it was with Peter and the rest of the disciples, so it is with all sensible sinners, and true believers, who see there is no other to go to for life and salvation, but Christ; not to the law of Moses, which accuses, curses, and condemns, and by which there is neither life nor righteousnessEric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-19446261481724202762007-04-24T18:27:00.000-04:002007-04-24T18:28:33.042-04:00The Impotency of the Human Will by A.W. PinkDoes it lie within the province of man's will to accept or reject the Lord Jesus as Saviour? Granted that the Gospel is preached to the sinner, that the Holy Spirit convicts him of his lost condition, does it, in the final analysis, lie within the power of his own will to resist or yield himself up to God? The answer to this question defines our conception of human depravity. That man is a fallenEric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-10088840770528861492007-04-19T19:00:00.000-04:002007-04-19T19:02:24.683-04:00trials and comfort by Brian DuFourTrials are meant to hurt, physically, emotionally, or spiritually. But there is a trial that I have found that may hurt even more, a trail of comfort. All aspects of my life seem to be in order, my family life, my job, my friends all seem at peace. I soon take comfort in these, and my efforts tend toward keeping my life in this comfort zone. Before you know it, my eyes are focused on things Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-1164409655454998882006-11-24T18:06:00.000-05:002006-11-24T18:07:35.473-05:00Our Forms of Worship by C.H. SpurgeonIf I have gone through the general routine of the worship of my church, and then think that I have done something acceptable to God, while yet my heart has not communed with him in humble repentance, or faith, or love, or joy, or consecration; I make a great mistake. You may keep on with your religious performances for seventy years or more; you may not neglect a single rubric in the whole ritualEric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235914.post-1161868867516443092006-10-26T09:20:00.000-04:002006-10-26T09:21:07.530-04:00Judgment! By William S. Plumer"For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil." Ecclesiastes 12:14 God has appointed a day in the which He will judge the world. Respecting this day several things are noticeable. All shall be judged. Saints and sinners, great and small, living and dead, the servant and his master, the prisoner at the bar and the judge who sat on his trial,Eric Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01387532937866197448noreply@blogger.com