The God of Beauty

FrontLine | Volume 33 • Number 6 In his book Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis said, “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from.” For the Christian there is an internal awareness and an external acknowledgment that all the beauty…

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Mentoring God-Fearing Leaders

Much has been written about mentoring. The abbreviated mission statement that serves as the motto for International Baptist College and Seminary is “mentoring God-fearing leaders into ministry.” Mentoring is an integral part of the ethos of our college and a central aspect of our leadership development. Yet while mentoring is the process, it is not…

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Podcast – Interview 17: Put God to the Test

Our September/October issue of FrontLine, “Gambling, What’s the Big Deal?” included an article by Kristopher Endean, Dean of Students at International Baptist College and Seminary, “Put God to the Test”. His article challenges Christians to put God to the test rather than the foolish and random chances of the myriad methods of gambling. In the…

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Gambling What’s the Big Deal? [FrontLine preview]

FRONTLINE Volume 33 • Number 5 Five years ago the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not prevent states from legalizing sports betting. Now thirty-five states and the District of Columbia allow it. Advertisements for sports-betting sites feature some of the most famous athletes and sports celebrities in the country. It is almost impossible to…

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The Future of Missions

Drawing from the Wells of the Past Genesis 26 records the Lord’s command to Isaac to sojourn in the land of Gerar and His promise that He would perform the oath that He swore to Isaac’s father, Abraham, to make of him a great nation. Verse 6 tells us, “And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.” As…

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Knowing What’s Coming Will Help You Through What’s Happening

  In language meant to be clever in the context of his times, Walter Rauschenbusch wrote, “Eschatology is usually loved in inverse proportion to the square of the mental diameter of those who do the loving.”1 In reality, though, eschatology is usually loved in proportion to the believer’s love of Christ. If we don’t love…

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Purposes of Predictive Prophecy (Part 2)

God intends prophecy to have a definite impact on people. Commentators and hermeneutics texts warn us not to misconstrue the intent of prophetic passages. Much of what they say is helpful; what’s curious is what is left unsaid or even denigrated. Many interpreters downplay some purposes that seem not only self-evident but Scripturally emphasized. The…

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The Gender Controversy

FRONTLINE Volume 33 • Number 4 The gender controversy is the most common public policy dispute of our day. The news is full of terms such as “transgender,” “cisgender,” “puberty blockers,” and “conversion therapy.” Slurs such as “transphobe” and “homophobe” are designed to silence opponents. Those who blur the lines between genders have insisted that…

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EMS Evangelism

The abrasive sound of the pager went off at about midnight, a sound designed to wake the dead, if that were possible. “Salina ambulance, you are needed at …” Years of working as an emergency medic had prepared me for routine medical emergencies (heart attacks, strokes, broken hips, drug overdoses, etc.). This late-night page would…

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