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You Get Out and Stand in the Rain
Mark Minnick Our homiletics professor caught everyone offguard with his question: “What would you do if you had been invited to speak at a country church and upon arriving early found that no one was there yet except one young woman who was standing outside the locked building in the rain?” Then he sharpened the…
Read MoreWindows: Developing Spiritual Muscles
Dave Pennington Hardly a day goes by for the average individual without at least some emphasis upon health needs. Exercise, vitamins, and healthy food help develop and maintain good physical condition. Certainly such personal choices should be commended. How much more commendable it is when God’s people develop and maintain spiritual disciplines. For “bodily exercise”…
Read MoreBring … the Books: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography
by Mark Minnick Will anyone ever know how many biographies of Charles Haddon Spurgeon have been issued? Lewis Drummond, who authored the massive Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, lists nearly 40 in his bibliography, including the autobiography that Spurgeon himself started and his wife and secretary, Joseph Harrald, completed. As I write this, the four large…
Read MoreWhat Makes You Laugh? Laughter Is Revealing
by Ken Stephens According to a recent article in Psychology Today, “the average six-year-old laughs 300 times a day, the average adult, just 17.” Why is that? Somewhere along the line, we learned not to laugh. That’s right. A baby giggles for the first time at about nine weeks of age. Between 4–6 months, touch…
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Biblical Righteousness
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • March/April 1999. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The theme of the Book of Romans is bound up with the dynamic concept of “righteousness” (first mentioned in 1:17). The Greek word, or one of its derivatives (such as righteous, justify, or justification), occurs 66…
Read MoreBring … the Books: The Silence of God
By David L. Cummins This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. Through the years, saints of God have struggled with the two-fold conundrum as to why the heathen prosper and why the righteous suffer. The Psalmist dealt with adversity’s unequal balance in Psalm 73. In verses…
Read MoreWas Jesus Really Human?
Straight Cuts: The MAN Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5) Rolland D. McCune This article first appeared in FrontLine • January/February 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. Fundamentalists have always held clearly to the genuine and total deity of Jesus Christ. This was one of the “fundamentals” of the faith, and there was no…
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Laying Down the Law of Love
(Mark 12:28–34) by Randy Fox This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2010. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. Following a battery of questions designed to entrap the Lord, one of the scribes asked Him, “Which is the first commandment of all?” (Mark 12:28). The Lord quoted two Old Testament passages, one from…
Read MoreThe Christian in Complete Armor
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2010. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. One of the saddest facts about today’s Christians is that they are unacquainted with so many older but valuable writers. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. You could almost…
Read MoreWindows: Seeking God
by Mike Jones This article first appeared in FrontLine • Jan/Feb 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The true Christian, who delights in communion with the Holy Spirit, and meditates upon His law, daily acquires a stronger vision and gains a clearer and more distinct appreciation of heavenly realities. They begin to assume…
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