Posts by FrontLine
Don’t Stop Coming
FrontLine • September/October 2008 She was a beloved relative. Her frequent visits brought laughter and magic into the house. What joy she brought! Then when age and weariness crept into the house, she stopped coming. She had only come when it was pleasant for her to come. The old folks looked longingly for her. They’d…
Read MoreTwo Coffee Shops
A Parable for Pastors Once upon a time there were two brothers, Al and Zack. Al liked making coffee. He served it in his kitchen. “This is delicious,” people said, and they invited others. Soon the group outgrew Al’s kitchen. He set up chairs in the living room. Al liked people — liked knowing their…
Read MoreNovember / December 2014 FrontLine
Our apologies for a late announcement of this issue. A new issue for 2015 will be available soon, but we wanted to alert you to the topic for our last issue of 2014 and urge you to subscribe. At FrontLine, you will receive excellent Christian reading that you just won’t find anywhere else. The contents…
Read MoreGuidance from FrontLine for those Confused about Music
FrontLine 20th Anniversary Issue Will the music debate ever be resolved? No. There will be no final word from man on music, which is precisely why we have to keep teaching and reteaching the principles that guide us into Biblical decisions about it. In an attempt to connect with the struggle that some have when…
Read MoreFrontLine Sept/Oct 2013: Religious Liberty
Contents: Should We Legislate Morality? Joel Arnold Do we try to legislate morality, or do we accept people’s choices as they are? Facing Religious Persecution in a Free Country Jason Armstrong Why must citizens of a free country have to fight for a right that their country’s Constitution guarantees? An Urgent Matter • [link is to a condensed version of the…
Read MoreMisfortune or Providence?
Excerpted from Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp by Mikhail Khorev (Grummersbach, West Germany: Missionswerk Friedenstimme, 1986). Reprinted 1989 by Baker Book House. Used by permission. Born in 1931, Mikhail Khorev was imprisoned for his faith and ministry in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s and again from 1980 to 1986. Plagued from birth…
Read MoreBeverage Alcohol? Don’t Give Yourself a Headache over This!
FrontLine 20th Anniversary Edition How hard can this be? We honestly have to wonder if anyone who is toying with the idea of drinking alcohol has ever had a drunk in the family. Broken homes, abuse, disease, early death, financial ruin, reckless homicide—the list goes on and on. The next time you hear Dave Ramsey…
Read MoreMedical Science and the Law of Moses
by Stephen Caesar This article first appeared in FrontLine Jul/Aug 2000. A common criticism of the Bible is that it is antiquated and thus no longer relevant to our modern world. Since it was written millennia ago in an unscientific age (the claim goes), it is of no use to us today except as an…
Read MoreDiscerning The Will Of God In Unclear Circumstances
This excerpt appeared in FrontLine Jan/Feb, 1997. How May a Christian Discover the Will of God and His Own Duty under Dark and Doubtful Providences? Providence in concurrence with the Word may give some encouragement to us in our way; but no testimony of Providence is to be accepted against the Word. If Scripture and…
Read More“Newsworthy” excerpts
Girl Scouts The Girl Scouts have been in the news quite a bit these days. First they made national news by initially denying a young boy’s admittance to the club, then reversing the decision as wrong. Recently, Girl Scout employee Renise Rodriguez found that that sort of tolerance apparently goes only one direction.
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