Archive for December 2015
In Quest of Your Quiet Time
Bobbie Yearick The pursuit for a quiet time with the Lord is a constant battle. Yet how we need this daily experience. One morning I answered a knock at our door. There was Joan obviously troubled and discouraged. It was evident that she was defeated in her spiritual life. “Joan,” I asked, “when did you…
Read MoreTen Principles for Christian Service
Matt Recker Luke 17:7-10 Part 1 Serving God is wonderful and satisfying if we do it for God and not man, and if we do it in God’s power and not our own. When we lose focus on God’s glory, service will be burdensome; and when we attempt to do it in our own power,…
Read MoreGlobal Warming
Kevin Schaal and Mark Bouslog In early February of 2006, eightysix prominent evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, inaugurated the “Evangelical Climate Initiative,” seeking legislation on global warming. The initiative immediately sparked a reaction from politically active evangelicals such as Charles Colson and James Dobson, declaring that “global warming is not a consensus issue.”1 Since that…
Read MoreA Worthy Walk – Part 4
Jim Oesterwind “You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe; as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children, that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own…
Read MoreThe Truth: The World’s Greatest Fear
Wally Morris We see it in the Old Testament – Pharaoh threatens Moses, Saul threatens David, Jezebel threatens Elijah, Asa imprisons Hanani. We see it in the New Testament – Herod threatens the young Christ, the Pharisees and others threaten the older Christ, the Sanhedrin threatens Peter and John, Saul threatens the Christians, the Jews…
Read MoreThe Koran and Abrogation: The Two Faces of Islam
Matt Recker Quran 9:5: But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for…
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Read MorePeace or Violence: The Two Faces of Islam
Matt Recker Qur’an 5:32: Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. In an article I was reading about the recent terrorist rampage by Syed Farook and…
Read MoreChristmas in Bethlehem
When the Shepherd Became My Lamb Wilbur Schoneweis The Christmas season is filled with many marvelous and encouraging themes in which the Christian can rejoice, be comforted, and glorify God. However, the Christian will have to look beyond the usual trappings of the season to find these themes. No season of the year is accompanied…
Read MoreETS Revisited
Don Johnson Earlier this year we published a series of articles on the Evangelical Theological Society, an organization in which some fundamentalists hold membership. Our articles called those who participate to actively seek to enforce the orthodoxy of members or to sever their relationships with the ETS. Recent news concerning the ETS underscores the urgency…
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