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November / 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 MoreA Modern-Day Macedonian Call
“Jerry” What can we do for China?” Everywhere I go people ask me this question. With over a billion people over a vast land area, China defies a short answer. Since missions groups can come up with a whole variety of strategies, I think it is wise for us to ask the house churches what…
Read MoreGo, Win, Baptize, Teach
John Vaughn Much has been said in this space about fellowship, as it should be, since FrontLine is the publication of the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship. But fellowship is not our mission, just one of the things we purpose to maintain in accomplishing that mission. Our mission does not come from the FBFI constitution but straight…
Read MoreConsumers or Committed Christians?
Paul Downey These days one can find on the shelves of any Christian bookstore all manner of volumes offering to explain how to build larger churches. Depending on the author, churches are urged to employ various techniques to entice believers and unbelievers (often referred to as “seekers”) to fill their pews. Marketing the church has…
Read MoreInsight into Substantive Preaching (6)
Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In Part Two of this series, we offered the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. In Part Three,…
Read MoreThere Goes Me
William T. Maher The September 13, 1999, issue of Newsweek contained an article written by George F. Will saying that Professor Peter Singer of Princeton University suggested “we euthanize newborns with severe handicaps.” This statement was approved by Princeton’s president, Harold Shapiro, who chaired the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. It was said hundreds of the…
Read MoreHolding the Rope
Fred Moritz The year was 1792. William Carey had challenged his Baptist brethren to obey their responsibility to take the gospel to unreached lands. Baptists of mid-England formed the Particular Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen. They appointed Carey and John Thomas to go to India as missionaries. In 1793 Carey said…
Read MoreInsight into Substantive Preaching (5)
Mark Minnick In Part One of this series, Dr. Minnick introduces a substantive sermon by Benjamin Keach. We also gave you just a taste of the first couple of paragraphs of the sermon. In Part Two of this series, we offered the full introduction to the sermon and the first major point. In Part Three,…
Read MoreWhat Should a Christian Do?
David Harper Any Christian who watches the news in our day will certainly experience distress. We hear some politicians say ridiculous things; then we listen for other politicians “on our side” to answer—and sometimes there is a deafening silence. As we observe our culture spiraling downward into a moral abyss, we can become burdened, grieved,…
Read MoreWhither from Here? A Way Forward on the Text and Version Issue
John Vaughn Our aim for this issue of FrontLine is to inform, refresh, and edify our readers on the doctrine of preservation and to lay a Biblical foundation as we ponder the question, “Whither from here? A way forward on the text and version issue.” Acknowledging that FBFI uses the King James Version as its…
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