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Pulpit or Pew – How Our Place in the Church Affects Our View of Separation
Don Johnson Much discussion followed our last FrontLine issue (“Why We’re Still Here” March/April 2017), both here and elsewhere online. As always with internet discussion, some was inane, prejudiced, annoying, irrelevant, thoughtless, and/or unprofitable. And then there was what others besides me were saying! Seriously, though, any conversations will include a fair amount of chaff…
Read MoreThe Emptiness of a Full Life
Wally Morris “What shall it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Matthew 8:36). I recently watched a brief video highlighting the comments of novelists, poets, and other authors concerning their belief in God, or rather lack of belief in God. The purpose of the video was…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (Pt 3)
Taigen Joos Part 1 ♦ Part 2 The need for Honorable Christian Manhood is great because the assaults on Honorable Christian Manhood are great.
Read MorePrinciples of Christian Service from the Unprofitable Servant
Luke 17:7–10 Matt Recker FrontLine • November/December 2007. Serving God is wonderful and satisfying … sometimes. It is fantastic if we do it for God and not man, and if we accomplish it in God’s power and not our own. When we lose focus on God, then service can be burdensome; and when done in…
Read More2017 Annual Fellowship Meeting – Watertown, WI
Our Annual Fellowship this year is a combined meeting with the New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches. Our meeting is hosted by Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, WI.
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Christ as Firstborn (Colossians 1:15)
Tom Wheeler FrontLine • March/April 2002. One of the most important doctrines of our Christian faith is the deity of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus must be God to save us (Isa. 45:21, 22). Jehovah’s Witnesses, among others, deny this Biblical truth. One passage that they twist in an attempt to deny Christ’s…
Read MoreThe Impact of a Book
Wally Morris I collect different editions of John Broadus’ The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. I have 20 different editions of this book. Broadus was a Southern Baptist instrumental in starting Southern Seminary. I grew up in Southern Baptist churches but ended my association with SBC churches in the late 1970s as liberalism and neo-orthodoxy…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (pt 2)
Taigen Joos God’s people have always been led by God’s men. From Adam, to Abraham, to Moses, to David, to Peter and Paul, and scores of others, God has historically used men to help lead and guide His people down paths of righteousness and holiness. All of those men were imperfect, and led imperfectly. However,…
Read MoreFirst Freedom: A review
Duesing, Jason G, Thomas White, and Malcolm B Yarnell, eds. First Freedom: The Beginning and End of Religious Liberty. Second Edition. Nashville: B & H Academic, 2016. Reviewed by Don Johnson I laboured through this volume, I have to say that right up front. It is not that the subject isn’t important, it is very…
Read MoreObservations About Those Who Are Still Here
Don Johnson This week we are featuring our March/April FrontLine, I hope you’ve seen our previous articles.1 In this post, I’d like to take note of several themes I see repeating in each testimonial. Editorials and Contents — here; Why I’m Still Here by Mark Ward; Previews — here. [↩]
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