When Success is Worse than Failure

By Kevin Schaal | January 7, 2024 |

Brandon Poulter at the Daily Caller published an article on the craziest courses being offered in institutions of “higher” learning across the US. Here are some extensive quotes from his horrible list. Princeton University offered a class titled “Black + Queer in Leather: Black Leather/BDSM Material Culture” in the Spring 2023 semester, according to the…

FBFI 2023 Workshop: Jim Berg – Notepad Discipleship

By Proclaim and Defend | January 5, 2024 | Comments Off on FBFI 2023 Workshop: Jim Berg – Notepad Discipleship

Today, we are publishing our final bit of audio from our summer Annual Meeting at Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa. We spread it out a little too long, I think. Next year you will get it at a more rapid pace. Our theme for the conference was “Reclaiming the Great Commission.” Besides the…

A Living Faith Evidenced in Wise Speech and Conduct Part 1 (James 3:1–18)

By Kevin Collins | January 5, 2024 | Comments Off on A Living Faith Evidenced in Wise Speech and Conduct Part 1 (James 3:1–18)

The Book of James is held together by the theme Tests of a Living Faith. The main exhortation of James is to be a doer of the Word, and not a hearer only who deceives himself about the genuineness of his claim to Faith (James 1:22). Being a doer of the Word can be exemplified…

The Christian Attitude to Antisemitism

By David Oliver | January 4, 2024 |

Although it has been over thirty years since I visited the nation of Israel, my memories of the experience remain vivid. In addition to touring many cites significant to the events in the Bible, I also visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. Visitors walk through numerous rooms displaying photographs, videos, and…

Why a Local Church Bible Institute?

By Matt Recker | January 3, 2024 | Comments Off on Why a Local Church Bible Institute?

The desire of Heritage Baptist Church is to win souls to Christ and train those disciples to live for Him. Since September 1996, our church has provided a ministry we call the Heritage Discipleship Institute (HDI) to provide an opportunity for believers in our local church to fulfill this goal. Our HDI has been a…

The God of Beauty

By Mark Herbster | January 2, 2024 | Comments Off on The God of Beauty

FrontLine | Volume 33 • Number 6 In his book Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis said, “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from.” For the Christian there is an internal awareness and an external acknowledgment that all the beauty…

It is Bible reading time!

By Don Johnson | January 1, 2024 | Comments Off on It is Bible reading time!

I pass out Bible reading schedules every year on the last Sunday of the year. It is a blessing to see people enthusiastically take up the project each year. Last year I published an article here on P&D called “Bible Reading and Vain Vows.” How did you do with your vows of Bible reading last…

Podcast – Interview 19: Reaching Those in the LGBTQ Movement

By Proclaim and Defend | December 30, 2023 | Comments Off on Podcast – Interview 19: Reaching Those in the LGBTQ Movement

Our July/August 2023 edition of FrontLine focused on “The Gender Controversy.” The article we focus on with today’s podcast is by Matt Recker, called “Reaching Those in the LGBTQ Movement.” As you know, the gender issues are front and center in our media today. It can seem overwhelming to us as we confront it in every area…

Hezekiah: An Example in Character for the New Year

By David Huffstutler | December 29, 2023 | Comments Off on Hezekiah: An Example in Character for the New Year

In one of the Bible’s “new years,” 2 Chronicles 29:3 records of Hezekiah, “In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.” At first glance, this may seem like simple maintenance, but further study shows that opening and repairing these…

Brokenness

By David Oliver | December 28, 2023 |

After learning about the then on-going Welsh revival, well-known British Bible teacher F.B. Meyer traveled by train from London to the city of Cardiff to investigate the reports. Accompanied by a friend who was somewhat skeptical regarding the religious fervor sweeping through the land of Wales, Meyer attended a service in which the young evangelist…