Where I live, have had a number of days with degrees in the single digits, and we have had some snow. I say “some,” because I have friends elsewhere who sometimes get more snow in a week than I get in the winter. Whatever your winter may look like, perhaps the weather has piqued your…
Proverbs 1:8-19 Whether we’re young and still under the authority of our parents or we’re older and making decisions for ourselves, there’s good advice contained in the first chapter of Proverbs. We’ll be addressing verses 8 through 19 today, which is wisdom from a father to a son about evil influences. There are some details…
In our ongoing exploration of how Christians should engage with media, we arrive at perhaps the most practical question of all: How do we discern what is acceptable and what should be avoided? This question matters because it emerges from genuine Christian hearts that want to understand how to navigate a world filled with entertainment,…
I am at a stage of life where I genuinely enjoy looking at pictures and hearing stories of young couples celebrating Christmas with their children. I am also at a stage where I am thankful that it is now them putting together the toys, searching the house for batteries, and waking up at 5 a.m.…
I must admit that I had not been keeping up with Child Evangelism Fellowship and its premier way of sharing the gospel with children—the Wordless Book. The Wordless Book uses simple colors as a framework for sharing the gospel. My mother trained with CEF before she was married and considered joining the organization as a…
We are wrapping up our interviews for the November/December issue of FrontLine with this podcast. This interview is unique among all the others for this issue of the magazine as it combines the theme “Raising Children to be Adults in an Adolescent World” with a chaplains report. Alan Ashley is an FBFI endorsed chaplain with…
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair.” This line comes from the famous poem Ozymandias, a brief poem describing the ruins of a once great kingdom. In the poem, a traveler relates to the narrator the ruins of a statue he found. All that was left was…
The question of how Christians should engage with media emerges from something deeper than simple moral concerns. The Holy Spirit dwelling within believers creates an instinct for sanctification, a spiritual reaction to the world around us. Media saturates this age we live in. You cannot drive down a road without encountering it in bumper stickers,…
Though largely neglected in modern historical accounts, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) remains one of the most influential figures in colonial American history. He ranks among the brightest intellectual lights this nation ever produced. A 19th century president of Princeton University, writing of Edwards’s character, said, “He was, in the estimation of the writer, one of the…
FRONTLINE Volume 36 • Number 1 If we view the landscape of the Biblebelieving church, we will see along with many encouraging signs some serious needs. One of the most pressing, I believe, is the scarcity of leaders, not only to expand the harvest but to replace mature leaders who are reaching the end of…