The Church—Its Uniqueness, Distinctiveness, and “Exceptionalism”

Views: 6[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page. Introduction While fighting a war against terrorism that seeks to destroy our nation from without, it is also in the throes of a crucial civil war. This war is not (at…

Selective Postmodernism

Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] Postmodernism is the buzzword for today’s sophisticates who purport to have transcended the outmoded standards that have well served mankind from the beginning and Western Civilization for centuries. It has adversely…

The Scope of the Covenants —Is Christ’s New Covenant Only for Christians?

Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In the early 1950s W. Carl Ketcherside and Leroy Garrett were disturbing churches with their hobby that drew a distinction between gospel and doctrine. They alleged that only the “gospel” of…

America’s Moral Decay

Views: 4Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Fifty years ago, lasciviousness, adultery, and fornication, were almost universally deemed reprehensible; they hardly raise an eyebrow anymore. New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, was forced to resign in 2008 for…

The Ephesian Widows—1 Timothy 5:3–16

Views: 5[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] First Timothy 5:3–16 has long been problematical. Perhaps the biggest problem revolves around what seems to be an arbitrary age limit governing widows who can be “enrolled” (v. 9), and, as generally…

A Virtuous Atheist

Views: 75[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             Consider this real case: The young man was an avowed atheist. He described himself as “capable of pristine thought and speech,… moral, upstanding, conscientious, ethical,…

Humanism—Enemy Number One

Views: 150[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction I am a threat that is even more sinister and dangerous to mankind than political terrorism. The grave danger I pose lies partly in the fact that most people do not recognize…

Introduction to the Song of Solomon

Views: 84[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The Song of Solomon1 is a book of never-ending curiosity, comment, and controversy. McClintock and Strong observed: “No book of the Old Testament has been the subject of more varied criticism,…

Scriptural Pragmatism

Views: 98[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Our English word pragmatic generally connotes that which is practical, that which “gets the job done,” sometimes to the exclusion of reasonable or artistic considerations. When I was a youngster…

Are Alien Sinners Amenable to the Law of Christ?

Views: 15[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction It is exceedingly strange that anyone claiming to be informed in the Word of God would deny that alien sinners are accountable to the law of Christ. However, there have been…