Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–1 page.] When people adopt the wrong heroes, they make a fatal mistake. We invariably become like the God we worship, and heroes can become our gods before we realize it. A…
Views: 119[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Premillennialism pervades the vast majority of Protestant churches, including the old “mainline” denominations, independent groups, the various Pentecostal sects, and the newer “community” churches. This phenomenon is more than “a doctrine.”…
Views: 115[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] In 1 Corinthians 1:22 Paul describes the prevailing characteristics of the Jews and Greeks of his day: “Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom.” The Jews told…
Views: 127[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The first verse of Micah’s book is ripe with several important details. The name Micah means “Who is like Jehovah?” and is an abbreviated form of Michaiah, the name of…
Views: 128[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Churches should have goals and aims. In this sense every congregation of the Lord’s people should be driven by purpose rather than stumbling along haphazardly. However, purpose-driven has taken on…
Views: 90[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Three times in Paul’s great passage on the Christian “soldier” (Eph. 6:10–17) he tells us the source of all spiritual strength. We are to be “strong in the Lord and…
Views: 101[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] A bountiful, but bitter harvest of dishonor, immorality, profanity, drug/drink addiction, and cold secularism have become commonplace in our beautiful America. These behaviors extend from the powerless and poor through…
Views: 83[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Pontius Pilate asked our Lord the question of our title (John 18:38). Perhaps we will never know whether Pilate was sincere or sarcastic. However, there is no excuse for anyone…
Views: 82[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] Gospel occurs 97 times in the New Testament. The Gospel (and the salvation it provides, Rom. 1:16) is the New Testament’s theme. What does it tell us about the Gospel? The…
Views: 5[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] In his brief New Testament letter, Jude wrote of “the way of Cain” (v. 11). Genesis 4 tells us that Cain was the first human being to be born, the…
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