God With Us

By Bob Jones Jr. | December 22, 2017 | Comments Off on God With Us

Bob Jones Faith for the Family — December 1980 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. — Matthew 1:23 The existence of God is a self-evident fact, one has only to look about him at…

The Necessity of the Virgin Birth

By Don Johnson | December 21, 2017 | Comments Off on The Necessity of the Virgin Birth

Don Johnson The doctrine of the virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is one of those battleground points of theology over which many heated words have been exchanged. In this paper, I want to outline briefly reasons why belief in the virgin birth is necessary based on evidence and theology.

Star of Wonder

By Dan Olinger | December 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Star of Wonder

Dan Olinger Faith for the Family — December 1980 The Babylonian skies are a deep, rich, unobscured black, A group of astrologers (how many, we cannot guess) sits atop a ziggurat, plotting the future of their land as they think they read it in the stars. Suddenly they are shaken and nearly blinded by a…

Who Should You Marry & Why? (Part 2)

By Matt Recker | December 19, 2017 | Comments Off on Who Should You Marry & Why? (Part 2)

Matt Recker I am sharing three answers from Malachi 2:10-12 to this question: who should you marry and why? In Part One I gave the first answer: we should marry someone with whom you can seek the person of God. The second answer to this question is this: marry someone with whom you can keep…

God Made Visible (3)

By George Stiekes | December 18, 2017 | Comments Off on God Made Visible (3)

George Stiekes Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (I Timothy 1:17) The Spirit of God reveals a four-fold description of our God that every believer ought to understand and cherish if he is to truly know God and experience an intimate relationship…

Shop ‘Til you Drop?

By Gordon Dickson | December 15, 2017 | Comments Off on Shop ‘Til you Drop?

Gordon Dickson FrontLine • November/December 2004 Well, here we go again into another holiday season. It is commonlly understood that the stores have tried to “break even” for the rest of the year hoping to make a profit during this period. As you know, this “season” has expanded over the years. Thus, in American shops,…

Doubting the Love of God

By Taigen Joos | December 14, 2017 | Comments Off on Doubting the Love of God

Taigen Joos Believers should never question the fact that God loves them. Many biblical texts show us the love of God. Likewise, many hymns describe the love of God in poetical form. God’s unending, unceasing love for His children is truly a comforting thought. Yet there are times in the life of a believer that…

New World, Old Lies Echoes from 1918

By Bud Steadman | December 13, 2017 | Comments Off on New World, Old Lies Echoes from 1918

FrontLine: November/December 2017 | VOLUME 27 | NUMBER 6 In August of 1914 British author H. G. Wells penned a series of articles on the escalating war in Europe; these were later collected and published in a volume entitled The War That Will End War. The title of the book became a popular catchphrase to…

Who Should You Marry & Why? (Part 1)

By Matt Recker | December 12, 2017 | Comments Off on Who Should You Marry & Why? (Part 1)

Matt Recker Getting married is one of life’s most revealing, most character making (or breaking) decisions. In Malachi’s day God’s people were dealing “treacherously” against God and one another. (This word appears five times in Malachi 2:10-16 and means to betray) How? By marrying unbelievers or those who worshiped “strange gods” (Malachi 2:11), and divorcing…

God Made Visible (2)

By George Stiekes | December 11, 2017 | Comments Off on God Made Visible (2)

George Stiekes Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (I Timothy 1:17) The Spirit of God reveals a four-fold description of our God that every believer ought to understand and cherish if he is to truly know God and experience an intimate relationship…