According to the Book of Judges, Abimelech, the son of Gideon, hired worthless and reckless men to follow him. (See Judges 9.) Together, they murdered…
Originally given as a workshop at the 50th Annual Conference of the Keystone Christian Education Association and as a breakout session at the 82nd Annual…
In Lamentations 3, the longest chapter in this small prophetic book, Jeremiah’s expressions take on a personal tone. The prophet lived to see all he…
In a May 28, 2024 article for Mere Orthodoxy, Matthew Loftus mourned the precipitous decline in church attendance among historic mainline denominations (read historically modernist…
Welcome to the Proclaim & Defend podcast. I’m Don Johnson. My duties on the podcast are light for the next few weeks as we have…
Click here to read part 1. In the previous post we began laying out two interpretations of James’ meaning in James 5:14–16 regarding prayer for…
“Lord, What Wilt Thou Have Me to Do?” Originally given as a workshop at the 50th Annual Conference of the Keystone Christian Education Association and…
Sometimes the events of biblical prophecy are relatively simple. The foretold event occurs, and the prophecy is fulfilled. From that moment, it slips into the…
Our brief study of “The Lamentations of Jeremiah” continues today in Lamentations 2. The mention of “Zion” throughout this chapter is Jerusalem.1 The people of…
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Probably the most quoted…
Welcome to the Proclaim & Defend podcast. In this edition we are talking to Gordon Dickson about the March/April issue of FrontLine with the theme…
Romans 5:12–21 describes an amazing reality for believers. We were once sinners in Adam, under the reign of sin and death. Now, however, we have…
FrontLine | Volume 34 • Number 2 In the corrupt and tasteless darkness of this world, Jesus gives us hope. With a remarkable series of…
Originally given as a workshop at the 50th Annual Conference of the Keystone Christian Education Association and as a breakout session at the 82nd Annual…
Though only five chapters, the book recording “The Lamentations of Jeremiah” is powerful, poetic, and a devastating portrait of the consequences of sin. As its…
By 2015 or so, it seemed like the Christian School movement in the US was close to death. For thirty years, many church-based schools strangled…
Welcome to the Proclaim & Defend podcast. Our topic today is an article from the January/February issue of FrontLine which had the theme, “Redeeming the…
The body of James’ letter expands on the theme of being a doer of the Word (James 1:22 sets up the body of the letter,…
Magnus Carlsen, the world champion chess Grand Master, can play ten opponents at the same time. That ability is not unusual. But Carlsen plays ten…
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