While we await the next installment of FrontLine, I am happy to present the preaching sessions from our annual meeting held at Tri-Cities Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado. Our theme was “Called to Summit” and each speaker gave a message related to one of the mountains mentioned in the New Testament. The meeting opened on…
Psalm 121 contains “the pilgrim’s promise” for us today as we journey through life toward heaven. The promise is this—the Lord is our help and keeper, whatever life brings our way. Like its companions in Psalms 120–134, Psalm 121 is “A Song of Ascents,” a song sung while ascending to Jerusalem for one of the…
[Editor’s note: this article appears in the form of an allegory or parable. It makes a serious point, one which Christians should listen to carefully.] Nathan the preacher spoke to David the layman, saying: “There were four men in a city, each married to a different woman. The first man’s wife excelled in hospitality. The…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
“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…