Posts Tagged ‘FrontLine’
Navigating Life’s Big Transitions
FrontLine Volume 33 • Number 3 In this issue we are exploring the life transitions that everyone faces. Managing those transitions can be tricky, to say the least. There is much one could say about raising youngsters—and my wife and I face that every day as we try to raise our six- and nine-year-old children…
Read MoreHow to Apply the Bible to Change Your Life Today
The Fall in the garden seriously marred the image of God in man and made man an object of God’s just wrath (Eph. 2:2, 3). But from eternity past God has had a mission. He is on a mission to redeem and restore fallen people to the likeness of His Son to the praise of…
Read MoreBiblical Counsel for Medical Choices
FrontLine Volume 33 • Number 1 According to the Bible, sin and death are inextricably linked. Paul tells us, “By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin” (Rom. 5:12). With death, sin brought a whole flood of decay, disease, and disability. We cannot always trace particular diseases to individual sins, but…
Read MorePrayer: Putting It into Practice [FrontLine]
FrontLine Volume 32 • Number 6 Prayer: Putting It into Practice Few topics are more important to the Christian life than prayer. At the same time, there are few areas of the Christian life where we feel as much the gap between what we ought to be and what we are. Books on prayer abound,…
Read MoreWhat Is Revival?
F. W. Boreham described the time when he tried to comfort a distressed woman in an Australian railway station. Upon leaving the train she discovered that she had lost her parasol, and it moved her to tears. He felt a compassionate urge to assist her in finding it. He inspected every carriage. He looked on…
Read MoreReady to Answer
FrontLine: Volume 32 • Number 5 The Christian faith is defensible, and learning to defend it is an act of obedience for believers. First Peter 3:15 instructs Christians to “be ready always to give an answer to every man.” The term “apologetics” has historically been used for this careful defense of the Christian faith. But…
Read MoreLaying Up Treasures on Earth or in Heaven? (Part Two)
In the last article I addressed the matter of laying up treasures upon earth. The Lord Jesus Christ exhorted His disciples not to focus upon the physical—that is, the temporal. The person whose life is consumed with the things of this earth will be greatly disappointed. Even King Solomon admitted in Ecclesiastes 2:11, “Then I…
Read MoreLaying Up Treasures on Earth or in Heaven?
Our Lord declared to His disciples in Matthew 6:19, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.” In this passage the Lord taught His disciples not to make it their goal to amass wealth for themselves. Again He declared in Luke 12:15,…
Read MoreTechnology and Social Media
FRONTLINE Volume 32 • Number 4 What should you do when Mr. Potshot vents his spleen? What is a meme? What happened in Virginia? How can you use digital technology to share the gospel? What is “FOMO,” and is it catching? When you get right down to it, how is technology affecting us? And does…
Read MoreGod’s Work through His People
A History of Baptist Principles As Baptists we are a part of His story. I believe that the core of Baptist beliefs that will be enunciated in this issue by the faculty of International Baptist College and Seminary are the closest to the New Testament Church as is possible today.1 That makes us “primitivists.” We…
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