Posts Tagged ‘Spirituality’
Windows: Developing Spiritual Muscles
Dave Pennington Hardly a day goes by for the average individual without at least some emphasis upon health needs. Exercise, vitamins, and healthy food help develop and maintain good physical condition. Certainly such personal choices should be commended. How much more commendable it is when God’s people develop and maintain spiritual disciplines. For “bodily exercise”…
Read MoreAround the Web–9/19/12
Schaap charged, signs plea agreement: Former Indiana pastor charged, signs federal plea deal in relationship with teen (HT: Sharper Iron) Middle East Tension: An Unserious President In Seriously Perilous Times Newsweek: Muslim Rage & The Last Gasp of Islamic Hate Der Spiegel gives extensive background information: Muslim Protests Show Limits of Free Speech Spiritual Life:…
Read MoreThe Struggle of Sanctification
by Don Johnson An occasional series on sanctification — Part 1 is here. In my first article on sanctification, I discussed God’s Strategy for Sanctification, found in Romans 6. Four big words dominate the chapter: Know, Reckon, Yield, Obey. The strategy starts with Knowing something – the full meaning of your identification with the death…
Read MoreAnger: A Flood Out of Control
by Morris D. Hunsucker, Sr. This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. My temper has always been a problem. When I was younger, I regularly got into trouble because I got so angry, so easily. Whenever a conflict would arise, I always ended up doing something…
Read MoreWindows: Seeking God
by Mike Jones This article first appeared in FrontLine • Jan/Feb 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The true Christian, who delights in communion with the Holy Spirit, and meditates upon His law, daily acquires a stronger vision and gains a clearer and more distinct appreciation of heavenly realities. They begin to assume…
Read MoreSaved, Saved, Saved–Why Are Our Teens Getting Saved Over and Over? [FrontLine feature article]
by Larry Oats This article appears in the current issue of FrontLine • May/June 2012. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The church teens head off to summer camp, the Christian school invites a special speaker to a spiritual emphasis week, the youth group goes to a youth conference— and many of the church…
Read MoreNT/OT: A NT Christian Studying the OT
by Layton Talbert This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. Is the Old Testament at all authoritative for the New Testament era? Should the New Testament believer even attach much value to the Old Testament? And if so, in what ways and areas is the Old…
Read MoreMaking Spiritual Growth a Priority
by Rick Barry This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The winter when two friends invited Tony Risser [not his real name] to lift weights with them, he had no clue how greatly it would affect his life. But because Tony had been a cross-country runner…
Read MoreThe Need for Spiritual Food
by Paul Michael Garrison This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. When I was eight years old, my little brother was born. At first, he proved to be quite a disappointment. After all, he was too little to play with or to do much of anything…
Read MoreChallenges Facing Fundamentalism in the New Millennium
by the late James Singleton This article appeared in FrontLine Mar/Apr 2000. The article displays great discernment about Christian problems. It is as relevant today as it was twelve years ago. It was said that Rip Van Winkle slept through the American Revolution. Today we face a cultural crisis that began in the last few…
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