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What About Country-Western, Southern Gospel, and Bluegrass Music?
Tim Fisher Historic musical art forms are known to us in these familiar terms: classical, folk, and popular (pop). An understanding of these terms is essential to grasp the full picture of what is happening in our culture today. The first term, classical, refers to music or art that has intrinsic value or worthiness based…
Read MoreA Tragic Exchange
Randy Shaylor “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. . . .” (Isaiah 5:20) Only by living the life of a hermit can one escape the fact that Americans have abandoned truth as a standard of life and as a spiritual and philosophical ideal. Whether it is called disingenuousness, prevarication, or spin,…
Read MoreFrontLine Special Edition
Because of the importance of these articles, we are providing a special edition of FrontLine as a PDF file for you to use as you see fit. Please note that this special edition only includes the articles on protecting our children and no other material from the January/February issue. Click here to view a downloadable version of the PDF.…
Read MoreA renewed review: The Dividing Line
Layton Talbert Mark Sidwell, The Dividing Line: Understanding and Applying Biblical Separation (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1998). 200 pages. Why another book on separation? Author Mark Sidwell (who also edited Fred Moritz’s Be Ye Holy) anticipates this question. His goal is “to supplement, not to supplant, other studies.” The author’s aim and spirit…
Read MoreThe Church Growth Movement
Scott Williquette This article appeared at a time when the Church Growth Movement was much more talked of than it is today. We republish it here because the insight displayed shows how a discerner looks at modern church movements. We would that all believers would be discerning and cautious about running after some new thing.…
Read MoreThe ABCs of Christian Womanhood
Steven Owen Today America faces moral decadence unprecedented in its history. The American home is under severe Satanic attack, and much of this attack has been directed against the role of women. Even Christian homes are under tremendous social and cultural pressure that threatens their very existence. We need to return to the first principles…
Read MoreYou Get Out and Stand in the Rain
Mark Minnick Our homiletics professor caught everyone offguard with his question: “What would you do if you had been invited to speak at a country church and upon arriving early found that no one was there yet except one young woman who was standing outside the locked building in the rain?” Then he sharpened the…
Read MoreIn Pursuit of Noah’s Faith
Layton Talbert The “Hall of Faith” in Hebrews 11 displays the radiance and reality of faith through the stained-glass portrayals of real men and women, exhibiting what faith looks like as it is fleshed out in the choices and actions of those men and women. But how do we cultivate that kind of faith? The…
Read MoreFrontline Preview: The Critical Element in Discipleship
John C. Vaughn Discussions of discipleship should flow from the fountain of the Great Commission, for we know that the Great Commission is a command to make disciples. “Go, win, baptize, and teach” are words often used to summarize that commission, but at its heart is discipleship—the theme of this issue of FrontLine. Matthew’s statement…
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…
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