The Retreat from Excellence

Visits: 17[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–2 page.]             Without intending to be pessimistic, it appears to me that our world has suffered by the large scale “retreat from excellence” in recent years.  Those who are experts in the…

Christian Billboards

Visits: 24[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads page.]             Have you ever given thought to the fact that as a Christian, you are a walking “billboard?” Paul was approaching this idea when he wrote to the Corinthians, “Ye are…

Have We Surrendered All Modesty?

Visits: 25[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             I fear that many parents of youngsters in their teen years have failed to teach them any sense of modesty. Perhaps this is so because many of us didn’t learn…

A Look at the “You-Can’t-Legislate-Morals” Myth

Visits: 40[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads page.] Every time someone wishes to perpetrate or justify some kind of societal moral evil, his or her watchword is, “You cannot legislate morals.” This has been true of the protagonists for…

The Church and Moral Problems—Immodest Apparel and Worldliness

Visits: 20[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The church and the world are to be kept distinct, because they are distinct. There are so many places in the Word of God that emphasize this. In Colossians 1:13 Paul…

Respect for Authority

Visits: 58[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] In every system there is a basic, core principle that largely determines the nature and operation of the whole. In the business world, the guiding principle is to turn a profit….

“Dare to Go Bare”

Visits: 26[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The title above is taken from an advertisement in a national women’s magazine, according to an AP news story. It is part of a campaign by the American Sunbathing Association…

Seeking Peace Too Soon

Visits: 34[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] There are some perverted folk who enjoy strife and controversy. Some actually revel in a good fight or even in warfare. I am sure that most folk prefer peaceful relations…

I’m Sick of Progress!

Visits: 19[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Progress is a relative term. To a skunk progress is squirting a hunting dog in the face and escaping. But the dog would not call that “progress.” So with humans. What…

God’s Commission to Jeremiah—Jeremiah 1:4–10

Visits: 35[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Few Old Testament characters equal and none surpass the prophet Jeremiah’s devotion to Jehovah God (McClish, 41–60). His refusal to compromise the message God commissioned him to preach to Jerusalem’s stiff-necked…