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StraightTalk with Jamie

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StraightTalk with Jamie (Ministries magazine – Fall 1983) (Q&A with Jamie) – Q. I’m a pastor who is considering a call to a new church and the finance committee has asked if I will be willing to come for less than I’m being paid in my present position. How should I respond?…

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Conducting The Small Meeting

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Conducting The Small Meeting (Ministries magazine – Fall 1983) – When you think of a group of Christian leaders seated around a conference table, your mind should conjure up the impression of a great reservoir of spiritual power. Unfortunately, instead of a reservoir what you often find is a swamp. Both contain water, but while the reservoir is pure water, waiting to be channeled, a swamp is stale, defies runoff (much less channeled use), and is a breeding place for unpleasant — even dangerous — things…

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The Buckingham Report was an in-depth critique with

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The Buckingham Report was an in-depth critique with insightful analysis and commentary by Jamie Buckingham, who was known as “America’s foremost Christian analyzer of the issues, people and events affecting the Spirit-led leaders of the day.”

Initially the Buckingham Report was only available by subscription (1985-1986) and mailed out bi-weekly. About a year and a half after its debut, it became a regular feature in Ministries Today magazine, which was published bi-monthly. Jamie Buckingham was the magazine’s managing editor. The Buckingham Report remained with Ministries Today until Jamie’s death in February 1992. Each six-page issue of the Buckingham Report was a unique resource for American pastors and church leaders. It provided useful insights into global church events of the day, timeless practical advice, and wise analysis from one of the world’s most beloved Christian writers and speakers.

Now, for the first time in 25 years, everyone can read the Buckingham Report. This exhaustive collection is a wonderful historical record that gives insider access and authoritative insight into the happenings of the American and global church over a seven year period (1985-1992).

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Harbor City Baptist Church Bulletin: Final Perspective (last words upon parting)

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Final Perspective — (March 19, 1967) Jamie’s parting words to the Harbor City Baptist Church, Melbourne, FL, that had recently fired him. More than half the congregation left the church to form the Tabernacle Baptist Church. The Tabernacle eventually dropped the name Baptist from it’s name and went on to become the largest congregation in East Central Florida.

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The Dilemma of ‘Weekend Missionaries’

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The Dilemma of ‘Weekend Missionaries’ (Do absolute rules become relative when you’re spreading the Gospel?) (February 1980) – On May 26, 1979, Melvin Bailey, a 32-year-old Christian pilot from Newport News, Virginia, left the USA in a rented Piper aircraft on a mission to Cuba. Accompanying him was a 31-year-old former schoolteacher, Tom White. They were carrying 750 pounds of Spanish-language, pro-Christian, anti-Communist leaflets sealed in plastic which they intended to scatter from the air over the island. Things went wrong…

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Acid Rain

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Acid Rain (In our craving for comfort and speed, are we destroying ourselves?) (March 1980) – The Middle East isn’t the only section of the globe in trouble. Things don’t look too good around our big cities — where most of us live…

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Moving from Pentecost to Gethsemane

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Moving from Pentecost to Gethsemane (Slow down enough to hear what God has to say.) (April 1980) – Even my wife (especially my wife) knew I was going to fast. Like a speeding train I whistled through grade crossings, roared over trestles just moments before then collapsed (thanking God I had made it just in time — never thinking it might have been my excess speed which caused the thing to fall down), and speed by passenger stations, too busy to even wave at the friendly folk gathered by the track, much less have time to stop and pick them up…

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Reconciliation (publication unknown, around 1983)

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Reconciliation (Publication unknown, around 1983) Jamie discusses the importance of reconciliation with former associates, relatives, and friends, and the difference between that and the restoration of relationships, which may never be possible. He uses his own life, and his church, as an example. “It has been 15 years since the Brevard Baptist Association refused to seat our church at the annual association meeting….”

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Solving The Ministry’s Toughest Problems (book): How Do You Take Over from a Previous Pastor?

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These four articles by Jamie Buckingham were published in a book called Solving The Ministry’s Toughest Problems, published by Strang Communications Company in 1984. How Do You Take Over From A Previous Pastor?; How Do You Conduct Committee Meetings?; What Books Are Necessary For Your Library?; and Straight Answers To Specific Questions.

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