Wash Your Hands You Sinners!

By Kevin Schaal | April 13, 2020 |

It was a remarkable Easter Sunday. Despite the loss of our actual physical presence together there is cause to rejoice. God is still on the…

A Journal of the Plague Year

By Daniel Dafoe | April 10, 2020 | Comments Off on A Journal of the Plague Year

What follows are excerpts from Daniel Dafoe’s book, A Journal of the Plague Year. The book describes the plague in London in the year when…

Bodily and Spiritual Exercise

By Matt Recker | April 9, 2020 | Comments Off on Bodily and Spiritual Exercise

Scripture says in 1 Timothy 4:7-8, “Refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness…

God’s Grace in the Narrow Place

By Gordon Dickson | April 8, 2020 | Comments Off on God’s Grace in the Narrow Place

Are you feeling stressed? These are difficult days. You find yourself going through times of stress (interrupted by distress). As a believer, what should you…

Review — American Gospel: Christ Crucified

By Kristopher Schaal | April 7, 2020 | Comments Off on Review — American Gospel: Christ Crucified

If you’ve got some extra time at home due to quarantine measures, consider turning off Netflix and watching a Christian documentary instead. American Gospel: Christ…

Plagues and Pestilence in 2020

By Kevin Schaal | April 5, 2020 |

  Have you read Revelation 6:1-7 lately?  If not, I suggest you do it before you read the rest of this post. What we are…

Confined to Quarters

By David Oliver | April 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Confined to Quarters

Following his bold testimony at the Diet of Worms, for his protection, friends had Martin Luther imprisoned in Wartburg Castle. Initially, he did not know…

An Observation on Faith in Our Times Derived from an Unlikely Source

By Darren Hammermeister | April 2, 2020 | Comments Off on An Observation on Faith in Our Times Derived from an Unlikely Source

Reflections on Win Bigly by Scott Adams published by Portfolio, 2018 Having read Scott Adams’ Loserthink, I thought I would read another of his books,…

You Cannot Worship with Your Church, but Don’t Skip Family Worship!

By Kristopher Schaal | April 1, 2020 |

As you know, we truly are living in unprecedented times for society and for the church. Not since the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 have…

Plagues in the Bible

By Matt Recker | March 31, 2020 | Comments Off on Plagues in the Bible

The Corona Virus Pandemic is bigger than politics and bigger than any one nation. It is what God is doing in our world. What God…

Why Capitalism Needs Christianity

By Kevin Schaal | March 29, 2020 | Comments Off on Why Capitalism Needs Christianity

A few weeks ago I wrote an article entitled “Why Socialism Is Not Christian.” However, capitalism also has its flaws. The present world health crisis…

Seeing God’s Sovereignty in Our Suffering

By Micah Colbert | March 27, 2020 |

“These are the times that try men’s souls…” the well-known words of poet Thomas Paine came to mind as I drove to the grocery store…

Misunderstanding God: Greg Boyd’s non-evangelical approach to spiritual warfare

By Matt Walker | March 26, 2020 | Comments Off on Misunderstanding God: Greg Boyd’s non-evangelical approach to spiritual warfare

In “What’s War? The Existential Question of Spiritual Warfare,” pastor Matt Walker introduced the subject of spiritual warfare. In today’s piece he describes an approach…

To Live Stream or not to Live Stream

By Don Johnson | March 25, 2020 |

advice for the small church in a challenging time What are we to do in a time when government in its wisdom dictates that we…

What Does the Bible Say about Pandemics?

By Thomas Overmiller | March 24, 2020 | Comments Off on What Does the Bible Say about Pandemics?

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease called COVID-19 has surprised many of us. Yet infectious outbreaks and pandemics are nothing new. They’ve occurred throughout history…

How Do We Do Church Now? We Can Start with Prayer!

By Kevin Schaal | March 23, 2020 | Comments Off on How Do We Do Church Now? We Can Start with Prayer!

We are all televangelists now! What a Sunday. We had everything ready to go to live stream some sort of semblance of a worship service…

2020 FBFI Annual Fellowship Cancelled

By Kevin Schaal | March 20, 2020 | Comments Off on 2020 FBFI Annual Fellowship Cancelled

Dear FBFI Family, Because of the present health crisis, we are canceling our Annual Fellowship in Indianapolis this year. We hope that life will return…

Why Does God Allow Death?

By Caleb Phelps | March 20, 2020 | Comments Off on Why Does God Allow Death?

On January 26, 2020, our world reeled, hearing of the tragic death of Kobe Bryant. He was just 41 years old. Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna…

When Viruses Loom Larger than God

By Joel Arnold | March 19, 2020 | Comments Off on When Viruses Loom Larger than God

I (like you, no doubt) am tired of thinking about COVID-19 already, though my browsing history might betray me. I’ll abstain from taking a side…

How to Prepare for Hard Times

By Gordon Dickson | March 18, 2020 |

Acts 11:19-30 How would you respond if you knew that a disaster would happen soon? Or just for the sake of discussion, let’s say you…

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