The Gospel and Subjectivism

Views: 70[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Our times are characterized by religious convictions based solely upon feelings and experiences. This phenomenon has always been a trademark of Pentecostalism, but it now infects and affects all of…

The Gift of Tongues

Views: 108[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] One of the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of tongues (1 Cor. 12:10, 30; 19:6; 14:2; et al.). What were these tongues in which some of…

The Conversion of Saul

Views: 75[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Saul of Tarsus is a fierce persecutor of Christians when he first appears in the New Testament record (Acts 7:58–8:3). His change from cruel crusader against the church to Jesus’…

“Strong in the Lord”

Views: 78[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Paul commanded, “Be strong in the Lord” (Eph. 6:10). The fact that we are ordered to spiritually strong necessarily implies that it is possible for us to attain such strength….

Stand Fast and Fight

Views: 67[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The whole point of a soldier’s being well-armed is not for the parade ground, the reviewing stand, or mock maneuvers, but for the field of combat. The reason we are…

Sounds Like Some of Us

Views: 71[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi, wrote a book titled, Who Needs God? According to reviewer, Don Feder, (a syndicated columnist) in Kushner’s view of deity and religion, “absolutely no one.”…

Some “Why Nots” of Worship

Views: 82[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The worship of Almighty God is both an exalted privilege and an immense responsibility. Failure to grasp these factors plunged the likes of Cain (Gen. 4), Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10),…

Scriptural “Red Flags” No. 1

Views: 69[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The exhortation, Be not deceived, appears several times in the New Testament. Each occurrence prefaces some special danger and should serve as a “red flag” of warning. Accordingly, we will…

Rejecting Jesus

Views: 73[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] How do men reject Jesus? What attitudes or activities constitute such rejection? Jesus answers: “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him” (John 12:48a)….

On the Intolerance of Tolerance

Views: 62[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] It is possible to become so extreme in the practice of a virtue that it becomes a vice. It is good to pray, but if one spent every moment in…