I have returned home after a crazy week of travel, conference activities, and more travel at the end. Living on an island always adds an extra wrinkle to my travel plans, but never extra convenience. Nonetheless, the 103rd meeting of the Foundations Baptist Fellowship International, held at Tri-City Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado was well…
We are talking about the March/April 2024 edition of FrontLine called “Salt and Light in Your City and State.” Our host for this session is Gordon Dickson, who served as our Associate Editor for this edition of the magazine. The guest today is pastor Tom Alvis, from Powhatan, Virginia. Tom wrote an article for FrontLine…
Whenever our family watches a movie, my husband or I often pause the movie to discuss ungodly behavior that is being normalized or at least unaddressed in the movie’s storyline. Just the other day, my husband paused a movie to explain that the way the mom and dad interacted with each other was not right—the…
A few years ago, my brother and I toured Sagamore Hill on Long Island, the home of Theodore Roosevelt. We then stopped at the nearby Young’s Memorial Cemetery to pay our respects at the grave of the 26th president. A brass plaque at the foot of the grave reads, “Theodore Roosevelt, Medal of Honor, Lieut.…
Extended before Jeremiah were the ruins of Jerusalem, with its streets strewn with rubble and the bodies of the dead in the midst. He spent his life calling on the people to repent and turn to the Lord, but they refused and continued in sin and idolatry. As Jeremiah surveyed the scene before him, he…
Heart to Heart: Time to Land the Learjet This article is part of our May/June 2024 edition of FrontLine. We include with it a podcast interview of Roger and Malinda Duvall, discussing the article and the occasion of Malinda’s retirement as the FBFI Office Manager. The podcast is available here: Interview 36: Malinda Duvall on…
In an article dated May 31, published by Realclearreligion.com, Robb Brunansky said this about Christians and the dreaded month of June that comes every year. As Christians, we might easily look at June as a month where the darkness has overtaken the light, where godless people brazenly mock God by taking His rainbow and using…
The Salty, Light-Bearing Church We are talking about the March/April 2024 edition of FrontLine called “Salt and Light in Your City and State.” Our host for this session is Gordon Dickson, who served as our Associate Editor for this edition of the magazine. The guest today is pastor Steve Thomas, from Flat Rock Michigan. Steve…
Click here to read part 1. Click here to read part 2. Working through the difficult interpretive decisions of James 5:13–18 is important, but let’s not miss the main concern of the passage: the prayer of faith. Whose prayer and whose faith? Verse 14 is clear that it is the elders who are doing the…
According to the Book of Judges, Abimelech, the son of Gideon, hired worthless and reckless men to follow him. (See Judges 9.) Together, they murdered all his brothers, except one who escaped. Abimelech did this to gain complete political power over Israel. Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, escaped from the murderous band, but he…