Stubborn, Ceaseless Civil War (1)
Mark Minnick All Christ’s followers, ministers or otherwise, are in one of three states of spiritual warfare: (1) some have given up battling almost entirely, (2) some are battling weakly but generally...
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Mark Minnick In Part One, Dr. Minnick writes to us of the struggle of the spiritual life, instructing us of the Nature of the struggle and assuring us of the Normalcy of the struggle. The Enormity of...
View ArticleEradicating the Evil of Envy
Jim Oesterwind Genesis 37 begins the story of the fourth significant person in the second half of the book. His name is Joseph, the eleventh of Jacob’s twelve sons. He along with Benjamin are the two...
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A Fight Against Shallow Christianity
Taigen Joos I am 42 years old. I have been saved for 27 years. I have been in pastoral ministry for 15 years. My experience in Christianity and ministry is such that the older I get, the more I realize...
View ArticleDo You Wrestle with This Temptation?
Thomas Overmiller God is always good to his people, all the time. That’s what David affirms in Psalm 73:1. But in doing so, he makes an honest admission. Can you relate? He had been jealous of ungodly...
View Article“Solitude”
Wally Morris Definition of “solitude”: being alone or isolated; cut off voluntarily or involuntarily from other people, entirely by oneself, standing apart from the rest of the world; originally from...
View ArticleI AM the Bread of Life
George Stiekes And Jesus said unto them, I AM the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst. John 6:35 There are a number of I AM passages...
View ArticleListening to the Sermon
George Stiekes Admonition Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have. Luke 8:18 How...
View ArticleSeven Marks of Counterfeit Holiness
John Van Gelderen In a recent post we addressed the error of counterfeit holiness (see The Error of Counterfeit Holiness). The major error is in focusing primarily on applications of holiness instead...
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Scoliosis of the Mind
Taigen Joos When I was a child, I was diagnosed with adolescent scoliosis. My back had a slight curvature to it, which was causing some discomfort and difficulties for me. Thankfully, my condition was...
View ArticleWhat Are You Thinking?
Ken Endean FrontLine • May/June 2008 Almost 350 years ago, with the restoration of the English monarchy, King Charles II sought to control the churches. The Act of Uniformity was passed in 1662,...
View ArticleChoices for the New Year
George Stiekes And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, CHOOSE you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods...
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Christians Should Be Readers
Taigen Joos Many Christians will begin this New Year with some kind of Bible reading schedule. For our church, we promote this as well, and many take up the challenge to read through their Bibles in a...
View Article“Why Do We Have To Wait?”
Wally Morris I don’t like waiting. For several years, I worked in retail sales, and the most common complaint from customers concerned long waits in checkout lines. We don’t like waiting at stoplights,...
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Grow, Christian, Grow!
May I ask you lovingly but directly, are you growing spiritually? Are you continually developing stronger spiritual character of love, self-control, peace, and holy desires? Jude tells us we need to...
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Christians Must Handle Conflict Biblically
We cannot escape conflicts because we cannot escape people, including Christians, who struggle with sinful pride and their sinful flesh. For this reason, conflicts will arise between individuals....
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What To Do When You Disagree with God
Have you ever read your Bible and come across something that bothered you? Something that made you uncomfortable? Something you disagreed with? I hope you have. Many people mistakenly assume that...
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The Double Cure
The first verse of the hymn “Rock of Ages”ends with these words: “Be of sin the double cure, Save from wrath and make me pure” (Majesty Hymns, 451). Interestingly, some hymnals have an alternate...
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Reading Your Bible
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his god, to keep all the words of this law and these statues to do them. Deuteronomy...
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Why Isn’t My Husband Perfect? (Or at Least Better than Average?)
Many years ago there lived a woman who, you could truly say, had it all. She lived in the most beautiful home in her area. Her husband was the most handsome man in the world, and his job allowed him...
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