On Identifying False Teachers

Views: 69[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] As our Lord drew the Sermon on the Mount to a close, He gave the following warning: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly…

“Oh, For an Honest False Teacher”

Views: 100[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Under the title above Rubel Shelly wrote a stirring article a few decades ago. In it he ably exposed and decried the hypocrisy and deception of liberals as they made…

Offering the Invitation

Views: 72[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] After his sermon on the day of Pentecost, which concluded with the plan of salvation, Peter used “many other words” of exhortation, including the persuasive plea, “Save yourselves from this…

Not Heard at the Judgment

Views: 73[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] The Bible teaches that there will be a great Day of Judgment when Jesus Christ returns and that He will be the Judge on that Great Day: But when the…

“Mark” and “Turn Away From…”

Views: 72[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Paul’s final plea to the saints in Rome was for doctrinal purity: Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to…

Making God in Man’s Image

Views: 68[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] In 1978 the Mormon Church decided to accept black men into its priesthood for the first time. This was a direct repudiation of previous Mormon doctrine and practice. By official…

“Mainline” or “Sidetrack”?

Views: 75[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] In a syndicated newspaper column a few years ago, William Murchison laid bare the insipidity of the liberalism of certain “mainline” Protestant denominations. He based his column on a poll…

“Let’s Party”

Views: 68[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] It has finally come to this. A few years ago, a brother asserted that worship should be a party, a “celebration” (Marvin Phillips, speech at Nashville, TN “Jubilee,” July 1989)….

“Judge Not…”

Views: 81[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] When Jesus said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Mat. 7:1), he was not merely uttering good advice, but a prohibition—a strong negative command. Unless we understand what kind…

Judaism Restored?

Views: 71[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] One of the strangest facets of the dispensational premillennial system of theology includes a restoration of the authority of the law of Moses. According to this system: After the alleged…