Kristopher Schaal Even secular culture cannot help but make moral judgments. Sometimes Christians can affirm the world’s ethic and sometimes we must challenge it. Sometimes…
FrontLine March/April 2019 | VOLUME 29 | NUMBER 2 In America, big churches are getting bigger and small churches are getting smaller. According to the…
We do not often address this topic openly, but Paul did. I do cover this thoroughly in premarital counseling, but there are so many more…
Occasionally I will hear someone lament, “No one is discipling me,” or “I don’t have anyone to disciple.” Typically these kinds of complaints stem from…
Some years ago I was looking for an illustration to fill out a point in a sermon. I’ve collected various resources over the years. Most…
After riding by horseback around his estate in freezing rain and snow, George Washington woke up with an inflamed throat and was unable to breathe…
In Romans 8:29 we learn that God has predestinated us to be conformed to the image of His Son. That is the ultimate end of…
The prosperity of American culture breeds sin. For any believer, it is hard to deny this. We first see wealth as a means to happiness…
Several years ago I attended a breakfast hosted by a large Grand Rapids-based publishing house. The event targeted local ministers from various denominations in order…
Yesterday we published a piece by Dr. Layton Talbert about how Orthodox Judaism treats Isaiah 53. While corresponding with me about his article, Dr. Talbert…
The short answer is that, as a rule, they don’t. Every year around September, they systematically avoid reading Isaiah 53. But that begs a little…
There’s a very striking story about a man who never learned to read but who had a well-worn Bible. Someone asked him why the pages…
I wonder exactly what it was like that Sunday just a short time after the founding of the church at Jerusalem. Things were happening. People…
Choices lead to consequences. Good choices have positive consequences; sinful choices have negative consequences. Those statements are not surprising to us, yet we often forget…
This study provides a biblical, historical and practical overview how God has provided his Word to us in written form. Biblical (and Early Christian) Evidence…
Who is “The Temple of God” in 1 Corinthians 3:16–17? For those of us who grew up in Fundamentalism, hearing a sermon about a Christian’s…
In 1917 the Bible Institute of Los Angeles printed a collection of articles—edited by R. A. Torrey, A. C. Dixon, and many others—called The Fundamentals.…
Four Biblical Principles Regarding the Clothes You Wear Whether therefore you eat or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God…
Be ye therefore perfect… (Matthew 5:48). Let us therefore, as many as be perfect… (Philippians 3:15). But let patience have her perfect work, that YE…
Acts 12 presents the first loss from the apostolic company, the death of James, brother of John, one of the “Sons of Thunder,” a member…
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