Should Mariann Budde have the only voice? Religious leaders have been clamoring to influence the newly sworn-in President of the United States. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the National Cathedral, in a public address at Trump’s inaugural prayer service, spoke directly to him asking him to have mercy on illegal immigrants, and transgender children. Catholic Archbishop…

We are still discussing the November/December edition of FrontLine, The Thinking Christian: Biblical Wisdom in an Emotionally Driven World. Our guest this time is Steve Love, a long-time pastor who now teaches at Maranatha Baptist University. His article was called “How Wisdom Should Produce Discernment,” focused on lessons from the Book of Proverbs. I enjoyed…

Our country is presently abuzz with patriotism or despair, depending on how one views the recent inauguration of our forty-seventh president. Whatever opinions we may have about his political stance or personal life, he is our commander-in-chief and the head of our federal government. How do the Scriptures instruct us to interact with a president,…

If we obey God’s Great Commission we will be concerned about and looking for opportunities to give the gospel message to the lost all around us—at our front doors, at stores, banks, gas stations, or wherever our daily routine takes us. While there are other good methods of personal evangelism and soul winning, there is…

As I stood at the back of the funeral parlor, ready to step forward, the director tapped me on the shoulder to say, “We have one more music piece to play before you go to the front.” “Great,” I said, “Thank you.” But imagine my astonishment when the first five notes sounded from the speaker…

Are you a church leader passionate about missions? Are you a church member curious about how to care for missionaries visiting your church? As a missionary to Asia for twelve years now serving in my local church in the American Midwest, I too am passionate about this topic of missions. I’ve designed this series of…

As I write, we are a week into the LA wildfires and the official containment level is still under 20% in most of the breakouts. The political/media class has exploded with finger-pointing and pontificating while the fires still roar. Surely, short-sighted political decisions have had disastrous consequences. LA saved $17 million in the fire budget…

We are working on interviews with the authors for our November/December edition of FrontLine magazine. We still have a few outstanding conversations to go through before we get to the soon to be published next issue. Today’s guest is Benjamin Flegal who teaches at Maranatha Baptist University. I’ll let him introduce himself to you, but…

We have probably all heard the jokes that every Baptist fellowship involves food. From my experience I’d have a hard time refuting this. Our church actually eats lunch together every Sunday. Most Sundays each family brings their own lunch, but every month that has a fifth Sunday, our church has a potluck. Besides Sundays, we…

We read in the Scriptures of the spiritual prosperity of the early church. A great love prevailed in the believers so that they “had all things common” (Acts 5:32). The apostles gave “witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all” (Acts 5:33). As a result, the “number of…