A Pure Church: FrontLine Nov/Dec 2020

By David Shumate | January 15, 2021 |

VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 6 Although biblical separation is not considered one of the foundational doctrines of Christianity even by most separatists, it is an essential topic as we consider the ongoing issues related to the publication of The Fundamentals and the rise of the biblical fundamentalists a century ago. There are theological, historical, and…

Expositional Preaching

By Dave Pennington | January 14, 2021 | Comments Off on Expositional Preaching

Definition of Expositional Preaching Presently, much is being written about expositional preaching. However, not everyone defines it identically. For the purpose of this article expositional preaching is an approach to examining and proclaiming Scripture with the goal of communicating clearly the message of the Bible. It is not limited to verse-by-verse book studies. In fact,…

Seeking the Lord in Troubled Times

By Gordon Dickson | January 13, 2021 | Comments Off on Seeking the Lord in Troubled Times

“In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that…

The Sin of Judgmentalism

By Cameron Pollock | January 12, 2021 | Comments Off on The Sin of Judgmentalism

We have witnessed much violence in America last week and in the last year. The near future does not seem to offer any promise of rest. Yet in Matthew 5:9 we read these words from Jesus, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” In context, Jesus is preaching his famous…

The Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Again

By Kevin Schaal | January 10, 2021 |

  With my father in ICU on a ventilator with Covid, I have come to realize that hospital regulations denying all visitors access to patients might actually be killing people. I have no statistics outside my own experience. It is now terrifying to go into the hospital. The idea of being cut off from loved…

Be a Truth-Lover

By Joel Arnold | January 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Be a Truth-Lover

I understand that passions are at an extreme high right now. I also understand that the political conversation space is over-saturated and at this point, simply exhausting. I also understand that my voice has little to offer the conversation and even if it did, very few people are still forming opinions. So I’m going to…

The Paradoxes of Shutdown Ministries

By Don Johnson | January 7, 2021 |

Jeff Straub outlined the challenges posted by Covid church restrictions in Canada for us yesterday. I’d like to offer a testimonial “from the ground,” so to speak. I should preface by saying that I don’t look on the ministry in our church as representative of the whole. Each situation is different, some churches may well…

COVID-19 and the Struggle for Worship in Canada

By Jeff Straub | January 6, 2021 |

The world is still in the midst of a global pandemic of significant proportions. I say significant for the COVID pandemic because this is not as serious a global problem as similar events that have been faced in human history. The Spanish flu killed an estimated fifty million people worldwide in 1918-1920 and maybe as…

2020—What a Beautiful Time to Be Alive

By Joel Arnold | January 5, 2021 | Comments Off on 2020—What a Beautiful Time to Be Alive

For the sake of those living on the North Pole or the International Space Station and who had their internet disconnected for the last 9 months, let me catch you up some current events: 2020 has been a bit of a rough patch. For the rest of us, I suspect, we need no such updates.…

They Are Lying To Us!

By Kevin Schaal | January 4, 2021 |

  Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are His delight. (Proverbs 12:22) When biblical ethics go out the window, distrust reigns. Marco Rubio published an article about Dr. Fauci for Fox News this past week. In it, he cited two instances in which the lead doctor in the…