Sweet Fruit From A Thorny Tree

Charles Spurgeon At times when our heavenly Father weighs out to us a portion of wormwood and gall in the form of bloody pain, we very naturally ask the reason why. Human nature at times asks the question in petulance and gets no answer. Faith asks with bated breath and gains a gracious reply. Our…

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Labor and Its Rewards

Norman Pyle “WORK” is a four-letter word which — unlike some less respectable four-letter words — seems to be falling into disrepute. In spite of the fact that individual enterprise and the will to work made America great, nowadays most folks want to work as little as possible.

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The Promise and Perils of Speaking Up

David Shumate Our family recently visited the Titan Missile Museum south of Tucson, Arizona. The museum was inside a decommissioned nuclear missile silo that was part of America’s strategic defense system during the Cold War. There, underground, behind blast doors designed to withstand a nuclear attack, we saw the control room where Air Force crews…

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What’s in a Word?

Edward M. Panosian This article comes to us from the pages of Faith for the Family, originally published in 1974. Some of the terms discussed in the article have shifted their meaning since that time, but that shifting nature of language is precisely the point the article is making. In consequence, you will have to…

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A Slice of Baptist History

David Cummins The history of the “Separate Baptists” has been an ignored subject of our Baptist history, and yet we cannot account for the rapid growth of Baptists in the South and the proliferation of the Southern Baptist Convention without considering the influence of this group. Though our primary purpose is not to deal with…

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Living In Light of Looming Judgment

(A Christian Response to the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage) Chuck Phelps The Sky Hasn’t Fallen – Yet! Ever since July of 2000, when Vermont became the first state to legalize Civil Unions, people have been saying, “The sky hasn’t fallen!” In August of 2014, Judge Craig Daughtrey, of the United States 6th Circuit said, “Gay…

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2015 FBFI Position Statements

For today’s post, we are sharing our 2015 Position Statements, recently published in our magazine and paralleling the theme of our Annual Fellowship. 15.01: The Importance of Prophecy Although many believers avoid the study of Bible prophecy because of the misuse of prophetic passages and because of differences among interpreters, prophecy is a very important…

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FrontLine May/June 2015

Things Soon to Come [See below for the content of this issue of FrontLine] Not too long ago we heard more preaching on the imminent return of Christ. Of course, there were excesses. Popular preachers made some dogmatic claims about (then) current events as clear evidence that the Rapture was certain to come within days…

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When the Land Vomits

Dan Unruh As Americans celebrated our nation’s birthday last Saturday the media is gleefully barraging us with the news of some who are celebrating what once was considered sickening and outright repulsive. Although God has blessed America with a beautiful land, He has also warned that when the inhabitants of a land defile themselves they…

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