Previously: The Eleventh Commandment – Introduction The Eleventh Commandment – Authority Now Jesus is not only speaking forcefully here, but also exclusively. Let me point out that Judas was not in the room when Jesus shares the eleventh commandment. If you come back to me to John 13.30, we read, “He [that’s Judas] then having…

The battles over the fundamentals of the faith that ravaged every major ecclesiastical body in the 1920s are repeated in the 2020s but over different issues.  It’s not like those old issues don’t exist—they do.  However, we are facing new problems that are as pertinent to Orthodox Christianity as the fundamentals were one hundred years…

Today, we present the final preaching session from our 2024 annual meeting held at Tri-Cities Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado. The theme for our meeting was “Called to Summit” and each speaker gave a message related to one of the mountains mentioned in the New Testament. Today’s message comes from our host pastor, Will Senn,…

Editor’s Note: This post was written during Hurricane Irma in 2017. Its message will encourage us today and especially those affected by Hurricane Helene.  — Classic discussions about the paradox of evil in the world, given the Bible’s claim that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent Creator governs all things, generally proceed on the grounds that evil…

It was our Senior year of High School. And it was finally announced. The dreaded Bible project we had all heard the upperclassman talk about and the one we finally got to write. The project was a two-page paper titled “What you are looking for in a future mate.” This project would not have had…

As we open our Bibles to John 13, we find a passage that is pulsating with love. The chapter opens with the words, “Having loved his own where were in the world, he loved them unto the end” (Jn. 13:1). In the last verses of John 13, we find what we’ve discovered here this morning,…

In Part 1 of this series, I sought to highlight a situation in the general world I’m calling “Conservative Christian Music.” My intention was not, nor is not, to discuss specific musicians, or even really to address the controversial style question that is a key component of the “worship wars.” While there is a place…

I was driving down the highway recently and I saw a decorated vehicle in the distance in front of me. It had white streamers taped all over it, cans dragging on strings behind, and painted boldly in the back window were the words, “Just Baptized.”  It made me smile. For more than a year now,…

We are interviewing the authors of our July/August edition of FrontLine magazine. The theme of that issue was “God, the Christian, and Human Government.” A few weeks ago I had the chance to sit down with my friend Gordon Dickson, who wrote an article called, “Heaven’s Citizens Under Human Government” In this article, Gordon talks…