Reading FrontLine

By Don Johnson | June 4, 2015 | Comments Off on Reading FrontLine

Don Johnson As readers of our site are aware, one of the ministries of the FBFI is our bimonthly publication, FrontLine magazine. We regularly post from its archives here on Proclaim & Defend. We hope these articles are a blessing to you in your spiritual life. In today’s post, I’d like to say a word…

The Growing Christian

By W. E. Biederwolf | June 3, 2015 | Comments Off on The Growing Christian

William Edward Biederwolf If you are sighing today for the ‘‘joy which once you knew when first you found the Lord,” it can only be because you have not been a growing Christian. Conversion is just the beginning of what God can do for a human soul. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they…

Bring the Books: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography

By Mark Minnick | June 2, 2015 | Comments Off on Bring the Books: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography

Mark Minnick Will anyone ever know how many biographies of Charles Haddon Spurgeon have been issued? Lewis Drummond, who authored the massive Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, lists nearly 40 in his bibliography, including the autobiography that Spurgeon himself started and his wife and secretary, Joseph Harrald, completed.

The Strategy of Multiplication

By Mike Mestler | June 1, 2015 | Comments Off on The Strategy of Multiplication

Mike and Gail Mestler Throughout Kenya grows a flowering tree with striking orange-red blossoms appropriately named the “flame tree.” The flame tree is indigenous to Africa, where it easily grows to a height of fifty feet and produces many clusters of flowers on the tips of its branches. A flame tree in full blossom is…

Obedience and the Will of God

By George Stiekes | May 29, 2015 | Comments Off on Obedience and the Will of God

George Stiekes And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. (Genesis 22:3) God had told Abraham…

Leong, A Man Without A Language

By Bob McLain | May 28, 2015 | Comments Off on Leong, A Man Without A Language

Bob McLain I have been a communicator all my life. Not only have I been a communicator of the gospel at home and on the mission field, but I speak through the marvels of sign language to the deaf. Through all this, never have I been so burdened and bewildered at how to communicate as…

Moses

By Bob Jones Jr. | May 27, 2015 | Comments Off on Moses

A sermon by Bob Jones, Jr. Moses was a man of mountains and a mountain of a man. He was a man of waters, cradled on a river, commanding the sea, bringing water from living rock, but halted by a muddy stream he could not cross. He was a man of fire who knew flame…

Who Needs Armor Anyway?

By Gary Fisher | May 26, 2015 | Comments Off on Who Needs Armor Anyway?

Gary T. Fisher At the time of the attacks of September 11th I, along with all the other chaplains of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, were in Charleston at a profession development conference. We all immediately began watching in disbelief what was happening on the TV screens— America had been attacked! Our lives and careers changed…

Times Are Changing, Must We Change with the Times?

By Don Johnson | May 25, 2015 | Comments Off on Times Are Changing, Must We Change with the Times?

Don Johnson The first paragraph of Micah contains a stirring indictment: Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. 2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is:…

The Heavens Declare

By George Mulfinger Jr | May 21, 2015 | Comments Off on The Heavens Declare

George Mulfinger Have you ever tried to count the stars? Jeremiah wrote: “the host of heaven cannot be numbered.” The science of astronomy has given us much interesting information about the universe in which we live-the earth and its moon, the planets and their moons, the stars, and the sun. These findings should enhance the…