by Layton Talbert This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. Is the Old Testament at all authoritative for the New Testament era? Should the New Testament believer even attach much value to the Old Testament? And if so, in what ways and areas is the Old…
Read Moreby Rick Barry This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The winter when two friends invited Tony Risser [not his real name] to lift weights with them, he had no clue how greatly it would affect his life. But because Tony had been a cross-country runner…
Read Moreby Paul Michael Garrison This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. When I was eight years old, my little brother was born. At first, he proved to be quite a disappointment. After all, he was too little to play with or to do much of anything…
Read Moreby Jim Oesterwind There is a digital fantasyland called Second Life where people live virtual lives because they have become disengaged from the real world. One woman’s husband in the real world asked another woman to become his wife in the virtual world. Imagine the devastation that causes. The ‘virtually abandoned’ wife said that her…
Read MoreIs Rap Really a Canvas? David de Bruyn begins what looks to be an excellent series of posts arguing against the neutrality of musical forms like rap. We published an article by our friend Brian Collins on Tuesday – “A New Song? What the early church might have thought of CCM”. He adds three additional…
Read MoreOur theme for the 92nd Annual Fellowship is in progress with one more day remaining. We thought it appropriate to highlight the main session messages preached thus far and available here on Proclaim & Defend. The theme of our conference this year has been Growing in Grace. Our speakers have contributed mightily to our understanding…
Read MoreAn article review: Works and Words: Why You Can’t Preach the Gospel with Deeds And why it’s important to say so. Duane Litfin| posted 5/30/2012 10:43AM The article is located at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/may/litfin-gospel-deeds.html by Don Johnson We’d like to call your attention to an article by Duane Litfin, president emeritus of Moody Bible Institute. The article…
Read MoreOur National Fellowship Meeting began tonight in Chandler, Arizona at Tri-City Baptist Church. We enjoyed a tremendous service with wonderful singing from the choir, special numbers and congregation. The preacher for the opening night was Evangelist Steve Pettit, delivering one of his usual fine messages, “Union with Christ: The Foundation for Spiritual Growth”. (Click the…
Read MoreStapert, Calvin R. A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. a review by Brian Collins Historical theology provides a great service to the church, especially when applied to matters that are fiercely debated among God’s people today. C. S. Lewis, in his famous celebration of…
Read Moreby Jim Oesterwind One writer recently observed, “A divorce is like an amputation: You survive, but there’s less of you.”1 Another concludes, “Divorce, as a cure, is far worse than the disease.”2 Marriage is under attack like never before in our country. People minimize God’s institution of marriage by deciding that they will just live…
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