Archive for July 2014
The Ethics of Change
Don Johnson As a final follow-up to my piece on What to do When Your Church Leaves You, I want to talk about the ethics of change. We know that change is inevitable. We know we resist change for various reasons. Not all change is bad, sometimes changing times demand change for the new circumstances.…
Read MoreWhy Dispensationalism is Important
New Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster: Part 3 Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ This is Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 Matt Recker Francis Schaeffer lamented in his final book, “Accommodation, accommodation … to accommodate to the world spirit about us in our age is the most gross form…
Read MoreThe Problem with Human Problems Is Humans
John Vaughn When Paul told the Corinthians, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man,” he made practical the doctrine of Anthropology. Declaring that all human problems are “such as is common,” Paul explained that fallen man is susceptible to all the problems that men have in common. Man, made…
Read MoreIn His Image–FrontLine July/August 2014
FrontLine: July/August 2014 | VOLUME 24 | NUMBER 4 The Problem with Humans is Humans John Vaughn What Is the Image of God in Man? Fred Moritz We are totally depraved sinners, and yet the image of God still remains. Thoroughly Human Thinking Andrew Hudson An unsaved human’s thinking is skewed in every area…
Read MoreWanted: A Few Godly Men
An Interview with Chaplain Joe Willis Later this year, CH (COL) Joe Willis will complete a long and illustrious military career. Nevertheless, his chaplaincy ministry will not only continue, it will expand. We have already begun a transition in FBFI chaplaincy that will involve Chaplain Willis more and more in the months and years ahead,…
Read MoreMoody and Sankey
Bob Jones First in importance and in prominence among nineteenth century evangelists was Dwight Lyman Moody. Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, February 5, 1837. His mother being left a widow, he was unable to attend school longer than a few months, and at the age of seventeen he went to Boston and became a…
Read MoreOn the Sober Step of Leaving a Church
Don Johnson Recently, I wrote on the subject, What to do When the Church Leaves You. The article generated a fair amount of interest and discussion, for which I am grateful. Some criticism came my way, mostly along the lines that I might be encouraging frivolous schism where no good reason to leave a church…
Read MoreNew Calvinism and Continuationism
New Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster: Part 2 Matt Recker Part 1 ♦ This is Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 In his final book, The Great Evangelical Disaster, Francis Schaeffer, with tears, passionately pled with evangelicals of his day to repent, saying, “in the most…
Read MoreA. T. Pierson on the London Tabernacle
Submitted by John Mincy “This Metropolitan Tabernacle is a house of prayer most emphatically,” Dr. Pierson writes. “Here are numerous rooms, under and around the great audience-room, where for almost forty years this one servant of God has held forth the Word of Life; and in these rooms prayer is almost ceaselessly going up. When…
Read MoreThe Future of Fundamentalism?
John Vaughn In his review of the book Evangelicalism Divided, by Iain H. Murray, which appears in this issue of FrontLine, the late Dr. Jim Singleton concludes with this question, “Will Fundamentalism remain true to its heritage, or will it produce from its ranks another generation of New Evangelicals?” Good question. Other articles in this…
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