Knowing What’s Coming Will Help You Through What’s Happening

  In language meant to be clever in the context of his times, Walter Rauschenbusch wrote, “Eschatology is usually loved in inverse proportion to the square of the mental diameter of those who do the loving.”1 In reality, though, eschatology is usually loved in proportion to the believer’s love of Christ. If we don’t love…

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Purposes of Predictive Prophecy (Part 2)

God intends prophecy to have a definite impact on people. Commentators and hermeneutics texts warn us not to misconstrue the intent of prophetic passages. Much of what they say is helpful; what’s curious is what is left unsaid or even denigrated. Many interpreters downplay some purposes that seem not only self-evident but Scripturally emphasized. The…

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The Gender Controversy

FRONTLINE Volume 33 • Number 4 The gender controversy is the most common public policy dispute of our day. The news is full of terms such as “transgender,” “cisgender,” “puberty blockers,” and “conversion therapy.” Slurs such as “transphobe” and “homophobe” are designed to silence opponents. Those who blur the lines between genders have insisted that…

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EMS Evangelism

The abrasive sound of the pager went off at about midnight, a sound designed to wake the dead, if that were possible. “Salina ambulance, you are needed at …” Years of working as an emergency medic had prepared me for routine medical emergencies (heart attacks, strokes, broken hips, drug overdoses, etc.). This late-night page would…

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Navigating Life’s Big Transitions

FrontLine Volume 33 • Number 3 In this issue we are exploring the life transitions that everyone faces. Managing those transitions can be tricky, to say the least. There is much one could say about raising youngsters—and my wife and I face that every day as we try to raise our six- and nine-year-old children…

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How to Apply the Bible to Change Your Life Today

The Fall in the garden seriously marred the image of God in man and made man an object of God’s just wrath (Eph. 2:2, 3). But from eternity past God has had a mission. He is on a mission to redeem and restore fallen people to the likeness of His Son to the praise of…

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Biblical Counsel for Medical Choices

FrontLine Volume 33 • Number 1 According to the Bible, sin and death are inextricably linked. Paul tells us, “By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin” (Rom. 5:12). With death, sin brought a whole flood of decay, disease, and disability. We cannot always trace particular diseases to individual sins, but…

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Prayer: Putting It into Practice [FrontLine]

FrontLine Volume 32 • Number 6 Prayer: Putting It into Practice Few topics are more important to the Christian life than prayer. At the same time, there are few areas of the Christian life where we feel as much the gap between what we ought to be and what we are. Books on prayer abound,…

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What Is Revival?

F. W. Boreham described the time when he tried to comfort a distressed woman in an Australian railway station. Upon leaving the train she discovered that she had lost her parasol, and it moved her to tears. He felt a compassionate urge to assist her in finding it. He inspected every carriage. He looked on…

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Ready to Answer

FrontLine: Volume 32 • Number 5 The Christian faith is defensible, and learning to defend it is an act of obedience for believers. First Peter 3:15 instructs Christians to “be ready always to give an answer to every man.” The term “apologetics” has historically been used for this careful defense of the Christian faith. But…

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