Today, I am happy to present another of the preaching sessions from our 2024 annual meeting held at Tri-Cities Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado. I am publishing this on Wednesday, as a bonus episode. Saturday we will give you one of our FrontLine interviews from the current issue. The theme for our meeting was “Called…

Back in 1936, a church group financed a movie intended to be a morality tale warning about the dangers of smoking marijuana. The film’s acting and production quality were both so poor that today the film is occasionally shown on cable television as satire. Reefer Madness is now a vehicle for mockery for any who…

The name of God reveals much of the kind of being God is. The sheer simplicity of the term “I AM” or “He is” belies how many layers of meaning it has. Aseity,1 eternity, immutability, simplicity, and tri-unity are implicit in the term. So, too, is the idea of infinity. To say I AM THAT…

Which of these election issues is more important to a believer? For the past 50 years, many Christians focused their political choices on one issue — abortion. It is not hard to see why. Killing the unborn matters to God. Governments are supposed to protect the weak and murder — abortion — matters to the…

Today, I am happy to present one of the preaching sessions from our 2024 annual meeting held at Tri-Cities Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado. Our theme 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 Pastor Stephen Van Gelderen,…

Paul prays that Jesus and the Father would “comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word” (2 Thess 2:16–17) and “direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ” (2 Thess 3:5). From these prayers, we see that God desires our hearts to increase in comfort,…

Recent blogs and podcasts mentioned the term “political philosophy.” The term intrigues me, so I’ve looked up a definition on the “fount of all wisdom” (the Internet). Wikipedia offers us this: Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions…

FRONTLINE Volume 34 • Number 4 In the Scriptures, God describes three institutions He established for the good of humankind—the family, the church, and human government. The order of this listing presents the order of their importance as taught biblically, though each is significant and essential for the prospering of the Christian in this life…

“The Trinity is in the Old Testament present but concealed; The Trinity is in the New Testament present and revealed.” True enough, and equally true of how much the covenant name of God reveals of the Trinity in the respective Testaments. When Moses first learns God’s name, there is something implicit in the conversation that…

This is the religious identity she claims according to the Deseret News. Throughout her political career, Harris has also drawn strength and inspiration from the Baptist tradition, which is one of the many Christian denominations that comprise Protestant Christianity. She was introduced to the Baptist Church by her father, Donald Harris, and still identifies as…