“Dare to Go Bare”

Visits: 29[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…

Symptoms and Causes

Visits: 27[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] It is universally accepted that in the practice of medicine it is both wiser and more effective to treat the cause of a disease rather than merely treating the symptoms….

Higher Secular Education— What Should You Expect Your Child to be Taught?

Visits: 667[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The general election of November 2008 was historic: The first black president of the United States was elected. However, his convictions far outweigh his race in making this election historically significant….

Preaching to The Brethren

Visits: 24[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] I am noticing more and more that the very errors I was exposing in the denominational doctrine and practice 20–25 years ago I am now having to expose in our…

Seeking Peace Too Soon

Visits: 37[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: 22[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…

A Weighty Principle

Visits: 30[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Paul urges, “But I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil” (Rom. 16:19b). There is a weighty principle of truth in…

“…This Conscience Thing”

Visits: 25[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]        In 2015, Pro-life, anti-abortion members of Congress  proposed the “Protect Life Act” in an effort “…to prohibit the provision of federal education funding to state or local educational…

On Penknives and the Bible—No. 5

Visits: 43[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]  At the end of the 7th century BC, Jehoiakim was the king of Judah in the waning days of that nation. On one occasion, Jeremiah’s inspired doom of the king…

Sowing and Reaping

Visits: 36[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] A bountiful, but bitter harvest of dishonor, immorality, profanity, drug and drink addiction, and uncaring secularism have become commonplace in our beautiful America. They extend from the powerless and poor…