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by Brad McKenzie Recently, while preparing the walls and ceilings of our house for painting and papering, I have gained additional experience with an electric sander. In fact, one of three sanders I have used literally fell apart through frequent use. This enabled me for the first time to look at the mechanism, normally hidden…
Read MoreWhat Is at Stake in the Music Debate?
by John Vaughn Nothing seems to provoke dogmatic statements like dogmatic statements. Solomon said in Proverbs 15:1, “A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” The thoughts in this column are a sincere attempt at a soft answer, but they may still touch a nerve. Most of our controversies involve three…
Read MoreWhat Makes You Laugh? Laughter Is Revealing
by Ken Stephens According to a recent article in Psychology Today, “the average six-year-old laughs 300 times a day, the average adult, just 17.” Why is that? Somewhere along the line, we learned not to laugh. That’s right. A baby giggles for the first time at about nine weeks of age. Between 4–6 months, touch…
Read MoreWorthy Examples
by David L. Cummins This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. Modern-day believers do well from time to time to meditate upon heroes from yesteryear, and then pause to consider that, in some small way by God’s grace, we might become miniature heroes for a future…
Read MoreA Biblical Foundation for Music
by Doug Bachorik Jr. Many churches that are sound in the Scripture, doctrine, theology, and practice have changed the foundation upon which musical decisions are made. This shift in musical philosophy is sometimes defended by statements such as, “The Bible has nothing to say about musical styles,” or “There is no abominable praise.” These bold,…
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Biblical Righteousness
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • March/April 1999. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The theme of the Book of Romans is bound up with the dynamic concept of “righteousness” (first mentioned in 1:17). The Greek word, or one of its derivatives (such as righteous, justify, or justification), occurs 66…
Read More“We’ll Come Back for You!”
by Rick Barry This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The story recounted by this article is probably fairly well known – a favorite illustration in many a sermon. We republish it here, at the close of the week, to remind you of it once again…
Read MoreHermeneutics (Part 4): Context and the Doctrine of Separation: A Case Study
by Layton Talbert This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The most effective way to illustrate the importance of context in Bible interpretation—and simultaneously to address an equally important doctrinal issue—is to present a real-life case study. Gordan Fee and Douglas Stuart have written a mostly…
Read MoreHermeneutics (Part 3): Key Questions In Bible Interpretation
by Layton Talbert This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. Click here for Part One, here for Part Two Interpreting the Bible: A Tale of Two Questions Accurate Bible interpretation starts with asking two questions— and asking them in the right order. What did it mean…
Read MoreWhat is Loyalty to the Word?
By Kevin Schaal This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2008. It accompanies the 2008 FBFI resolution, “Loyalty to God and His Word: Resolution Affirming the Biblical View of Inspiration, Texts, and Translation” attached to the end of this article. The article also appears here. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. One of…
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