David and Tule Cox Family

First, who am I? I am an inde­pen­dent Bap­tist mis­sion­ary serv­ing in Mex­ico City since 1986. I grad­u­ated from Bob Jones Uni­ver­sity in 1979 with a B.A. in Chris­t­ian Mis­sions, in 1981 with a M.A. in Bible, and in 1982 with a M.S. in Admin­is­tra­tion and Super­vi­sion of Schools. I am inde­pen­dent (no affil­i­a­tion or asso­ci­a­tion with any denom­i­na­tion, fel­low­ship, nor group). I am sep­a­rated in that I believe in sep­a­rat­ing from those claim­ing to be Chris­tians but who fel­low­ship and par­ti­cate with false prophets, bad doc­trine, ungodly con­duct, etc. I am Fun­da­men­tal in that I believe in the Fun­da­men­tals of the Faith, and I put seri­ous effort in defend­ing and pro­mot­ing them.

I invite you to view my site which explains our min­istry, pray for us, and if God so leads, to donate finan­cially to help us main­tain our­selves economically.

I am try­ing to get together two The­Word video pre­sen­ta­tions as well as mak­ing a DVD of the pro­gram and mod­ules in Eng­lish and another in Span­ish. So I am really busy.

Spe­cific mod­ules that I am work­ing on right now are:

Trea­sury of Scrip­ture Knowl­edge TSK in Span­ish. I am work­ing my way through the New Tes­ta­ment part trans­lat­ing verse ref­er­ences and text into Span­ish. The verse ref­er­ences part I have a Microsoft Word macro, and it runs in less than a sec­ond. But I have to copy and paste from TW to MS Word for every verse. I also have macros to help do this, but it is time con­sum­ing. I have Matthew done, and am work­ing my way through Mark (July 7).

Pul­pit Com­men­tary in Eng­lish. I am work­ing my way through the Pul­pit Com­men­tary also. My source for this has each chap­ter together, so I have the entire NT and most of the OT in the mod­ule, but only by chap­ters. I am copy­ing the chap­ter infor­ma­tion and break­ing it up into indi­vid­ual verses. This also is time con­sum­ing, but it is the best com­men­tary I have seen out there, and I want to use it for a source when I write my own com­men­tary. I will prob­a­bly be work­ing on my Span­ish com­men­tary in the book of John because that is what our men are preach­ing through in my church while we will be in the states vis­it­ing churches.

Sum­mary: Fall 2010 trip. Preach­ing of our men. Mex­ico News.

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5 saved on Sat­ur­day evan­ge­lism. Luis Enrique’s birth­day party. María Luisa’s mother is open. Read the rest of this entry »

I preached 3 Sun­days and 2 prayer meet­ings. We vis­ited Dis­ney­land, Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios, Hol­ly­wood Blvd. Nice vaca­tion plus great fel­low­ship with Miguel Morales church. Read the rest of this entry »

Sum­mary: A review of copy­right law, and some obser­va­tions of our day. This post is an analy­sis of copy­right sense and non-sense.

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Preach­ing oppor­tu­nity at His­panic Church in Canoga Park, Los Ange­les. Read the rest of this entry »

Con­tents

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“Thank you very much for your arti­cle Kun­dalini and Tongues!

From Nadia Tomazic

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“I entered the Inter­net look­ing for some mate­r­ial for cells, and I saw your Sun­day School Class mate­r­ial which was inter­est­ing, then I saw the evan­gel­i­cal tracts and I saw what you think of cells. It made me sad to see the words ‘Fun­da­men­tal Bap­tist’, and I don’t know if I am cor­rect or not, but you are protes­tants right? Why do you attack and des­credit other churches? I believe that this is very bad, and that is the cause why our churches have no cred­i­bil­ity, because we our­selves crit­i­cize our own selves instead of unit­ing and work­ing together to extend the king­dom of God, so why don’t you read about what ‘faith’ means and under­stand that pastor.”

— Hilda Sanabria Marin (Spanish)

DCox Com­ment — Since when did a prac­tice that is not seen in the Bible become the test of ortho­doxy? The cell group sys­tem was hatched by a Hin­duist Pen­te­costal (David Yonggi Cho) for the express pur­pose of hav­ing the largest church in the world (build­ing his own per­sonal empire) and works using prin­ci­pally women in the lead­er­ship and teach­ing roles (about 80% of all cell groups lead­ers are women). Unity is not going to hap­pen in a world plagued by heresy and every­body break­ing with the norms and com­mands of God. Unity exists only when we all believe and prac­tice what God has dic­tated, oth­er­wise unity in any other con­text will mean true Chris­tians sac­ri­fic­ing their doc­trine and prac­tice to be united with the disobedient.

A brief sum­mary of why we use the term “pas­tor” in place of “bishop”.

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Some peo­ple may be won­der­ing about the vio­lence in Mex­ico. Yes, there is a lot of vio­lence in Mex­ico. Down here we hear of a lot of stuff all the time, and quite frankly, there are no such thing as a “hot zone”. Every­where there are deaths and vio­lence. From the best I can under­stand the sit­u­a­tion, most of the death is drug-gang related, even the deaths of teens by drug lords. A Fed­eral police­man told me that the soc­cer team that was cel­e­brat­ing a vic­tory and got wiped out was actu­ally a gang that they formed among upper class kids. A rival gang didn’t like their vic­tory. When the kids have par­ents that are drug deal­ers, they have easy access to high pow­ered arms and peo­ple who will use them to kill.

It is my under­stand­ing that the drug infil­tra­tion has gone into the entire gov­ern­ment, police forces, and mil­i­tary, and this extends all the way up to Calderon, the pres­i­dent of Mex­ico. The sit­u­a­tion just is impos­si­ble to cor­rect with­out start­ing at the top, and this won’t hap­pen very eas­ily. We are cur­rently in a down­ward spi­ral which will get worse and worse. As the econ­omy gets worse and worse, the drug lords will start offer­ing to pay off the national debt and other such non-sense, and that is when they will legal­ize drugs and the rich will enter big time into the drug traf­fic with­out it being illegal.

From my point of view, I don’t think our Lord can delay His com­ing very much longer. Things are get­ting too close to the Antichrist’s gov­ern­ment in our world, and either He will send a revival as a reprive of things, or they will start lock­ing up Chris­tians. Frankly I fear more the US than Mex­ico on that point.