www.gilgalgospel.net

from the ministry of Elder R. Keith Hamilton

 

 

“for ye have not passed this way heretofore”

Joshua 4:3

 

 

Gilgal:

is the ancient place where Joshua and the children of Israel crossed the Jordan riverbed and entered into the Promised Land, Canaan.  The name means to roll away reproach of the past and to begin anew.  Theologically, it is important to us because it became synonymous with repentace, remembrance, and thanksgiving.  The place was marked by Joshua with 12 stones, taken from the midst of the dry river bed of Jordan and assembled into an altar for remembrance.  The altar was to continually remind successive generations of God’s children of His glory and providence:

 

Joshua 4: 21-24:

Then Joshua spake unto the children of Israel, saying, “When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?; Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land, for the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over; that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.”

 

Elder Hamilton:

is pastor of the Upper Black Creek Primitive Baptist Church located near Brooklet, in Bulloch County, Georgia.  He was previously pastor of the Upper Lotts Creek Church, established in 1831.  The Upper Black Creek Church, organized in 1802, is in fellowship with the Lower Cannoochee Association of Progressive Primitive Baptist Churches.  Elder Hamilton was ordained in 1989.

 

A number of essays and position papers on Christian theology and practical applications of Scriptural principles, authored by Elder Hamilton, are presented here for your review and study.

 

 

 

Essays and Position Papers:

These works are presented copyright-free as intact text without alteration and may be further distributed without explicit permission of the author.

Islam.pdf	Islam: A Christian Perspective (January 2002)
ImpPt1.pdf	The Imperative of Christ: A Christian Response to Islam and Global Ecuminicism, Part 1  (January 2003)
ImpPt2.pdf	The Imperative of Christ: A Christian Response to Islam and Global Ecuminicism, Part 2  (February 2003)
	The Imperative of Christ: A Christian Response to Islam and Global Ecuminicism, Part 3  (March 2003)
	Articles of Christian Faith  (December 1991)
	Must We Baptize Again? (June 1990)
	Primitive Baptists Believe What?! (October 1990)
	Cultural War: Pertaining to Marriage (December 2003)

 

 

 

Elder R. Keith Hamilton

mailto:[email protected]

 

 

2004-Jan