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FrontLine 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 MoreWhat Can We Do?
Keith Hamblen As believers feel increasingly marginalized in our secular culture, it’s tempting to simply withdraw. Political involvement doesn’t seem to be working, so why even try? God established the three institutions of family (Gen. 2:21–24), state (Gen. 9:6), and church (Matt. 16:17, 18). Most Christians seem to actively and even aggressively participate in two…
Read MoreA Biblical Understanding of Abortion
Robert V. McCabe At the conclusion of the 20th century, some reports indicate that there have been more than 38 million abortions performed in the United States. We must not lose sight of the staggering nature of this number of abortions. This number is roughly 26 times larger that the total number of deaths (approximately…
Read MoreWhat the Biblical Home and the Fundamental Baptist Church Have in Common
John Vaughn When Satan skews the illustrations of God’s truth, he is actually working to skew the truth itself. We know that God has ordained marriage to be a committed relationship between one man and one woman, but why? His explanation is clearly given in both Testaments. In Genesis 2:24, we are told, “Therefore (because…
Read MoreA Biblical Perspective of Marriage
Dave Pennington In a day when the definition of marriage is debated, one has to determine what constitutes a marriage. Can a marriage occur between two women or two men? Is it really necessary for people to marry? Why can’t they just live together? What is a marriage anyway? If someone asked a group of…
Read MoreWomen in Luke’s Gospel
Layton Talbert In recent years Biblical scholarship has seen a revival of interest in the role of women in the Bible. Unfortunately, this interest is too often motivated by or mixed with a modern feminist mentality that seeks to liberate women from an imagined patriarchal suppression of their historical significance and contributions. The result is…
Read MoreThe Greatness of the Gospel
Chuck Phelps The gospel is “good news.” It is the good news of God. God sent His Son, our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, into the world to bear our sins in His body on the tree (Isaiah 53) so that we might be reconciled to God through Him (2 Cor. 5:18). In a world filled…
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 MoreThere Cometh One After Me …
Kerry James Allen Probably most of us who are attempting to serve the Lord Jesus Christ in some capacity aspire to recognition and acknowledgment of our accomplishments. We would like to think that our teaching, preaching, and assorted labors for the Kingdom will have an impact on this and future generations. Discouragement is part of…
Read MoreThe Value of Suffering
Steve Pettit Suffering is one of the main avenues by which God brings revival. Perhaps no one understood this concept more than the apostle Paul. His writings are full of references to God’s power entering through the pathway of pain. In 2 Corinthians 12:7–10, he mentions his “thorn in the flesh,” a physical infirmity. He…
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