Bearing God’s Image: Why the Image of God is Not Abstract Art

By M. R. Conrad | August 14, 2024 | Comments Off on Bearing God’s Image: Why the Image of God is Not Abstract Art

You’re staring at the painting, pretending to appreciate it like those around you in the museum. Maybe they are pretending too? You’re not sure. What is this picture? Why do so many people like it? What’s the big deal? Maybe this is how you feel about the image of God. How does knowing you are…

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I AM: Immutability

By David de Bruyn | August 13, 2024 | Comments Off on I AM: Immutability

The covenant name of God communicates profound depth with a two-word simplicity: I AM. The hallowed Name of God contains a wealth of truth, if we will stop to peer into its depths, and not merely notice its surface. I AM THAT I AM reveals a God who is immutable: unchanging and unchangeable. To say…

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Self-Censoring Your Faith is Denying It

By Kevin Schaal | August 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Self-Censoring Your Faith is Denying It

The boldness of the anti-God contingent around the world has been withering over the last five years. While it rose in the final two years of Trump’s presidency, it boiled over in the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020 and then with the election for Joe Biden that fall. It all goes together.…

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Podcast – Interview 44: Dan Brown – Why the Promises to Israel Matter Today

By Proclaim and Defend | August 10, 2024 | Comments Off on Podcast – Interview 44: Dan Brown – Why the Promises to Israel Matter Today

Our recent edition of FrontLine is called, “A Future for Israel.” This is a topic that is part of the core ideas of the FBFI, we are glad to be known as dispensationalists. Our interview today is with Dan Brown, a senior professor and the chairman of the Practical Theology department at Faith Baptist Theological…

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The Faith of Closing the Casket

By Holly Huffstutler | August 9, 2024 | Comments Off on The Faith of Closing the Casket

As I watched the funeral director guiding my sister, brother-in-law, niece, and nephews to fold in the casket lining and close the casket, I remember having to suppress a slight feeling of panic. Closing the casket on my nephew meant that he couldn’t breathe anymore. I had to remind myself that what we were saying…

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The Intentional Historical Vulnerability of Christianity (Part 2)

By Layton Talbert | August 7, 2024 | Comments Off on The Intentional Historical Vulnerability of Christianity (Part 2)

We should expect that the Christian claim to the resurrection of Jesus should meet with skepticism, even scorn. It always has (Acts 17:32). It is, after all, a singular event unique to all human history and experience. Since it is so central to the reality and reliability of everything we believe, it is worth briefly surveying the wide…

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I AM: Eternity

By David de Bruyn | August 6, 2024 | Comments Off on I AM: Eternity

“I AM THAT I AM” communicates an eternal timelessness inconceivable to human experience. We exist in a fractional, fleeting, unquantifiable moment that we call “now”. But “now” becomes past as quickly as it arrived from the future. Most of our life, considered from the point of view of experience, is either past or future. Memory…

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The Doctrine of Ecclesiastical Separation is Being Lost—We Cannot Let It Happen

By Kevin Schaal | August 4, 2024 |

Last night, I sat with some GenZ college students and talked about the history of fundamentalism. We talked for two and a half hours. I tried to answer every question and be as candid as possible about the strengths and weaknesses of biblical Baptist fundamentalism over the past 100 years. The conversation is typical of…

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Podcast — Interview 43: Douglas Brown – No Future for Israel? Supersessionism 101

By Proclaim and Defend | August 2, 2024 | Comments Off on Podcast — Interview 43: Douglas Brown – No Future for Israel? Supersessionism 101

Our recent edition of FrontLine is called, “A Future for Israel.” This is a topic that is part of the core ideas of the FBFI, we are glad to be known as dispensationalists. Our interview today is with Dr. Doug Brown of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary. We had Doug on last year…

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Psalm 2:7 in the NT: The Announcement of a King

By David Huffstutler | August 2, 2024 | Comments Off on Psalm 2:7 in the NT: The Announcement of a King

In Acts 13:32–33, Paul teaches that the promise of a Davidic king who would rule forever (cf. Acts 13:22–23) has been fulfilled in part through the resurrection of Jesus. Since Jesus had been put to death (cf. Acts 13:26–29), God raised Him up in order for Ps 2:7 to remain true of Him: “You are…

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