Spiritual Subversives

Views: 78[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–2 page.]             [Prefatory Note: As indicated in the publication note at the end of the article below, I wrote it in 1973, almost exactly 50 years before the time of this writing….

Should Christians Oppose Evil?

Views: 72[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–2 page.]             Many have come dangerously close to adopting a fatal attitude toward evil practices. I am speaking of the attitude that reasons, “It will do no good to oppose evil; people…

Hurtful Heroes

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…

New Testament Worship

Views: 77[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             Worship is man’s expression of love, praise, and thanksgiving to God. In the very nature of the case, man does not know how to acceptably worship God apart from His…

Resurrection Failure

Views: 141[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.]             “After praying over a freezer for more than two hours, a preacher admitted Sunday that he had failed to raise his mother from the dead” (Fort Worth Star Telegram,…

Studies in Evolution — No. 12

Views: 74[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.]             Having seen several very plausible, if not compelling, reasons for understanding the days of creation in Genesis 1 to be literal, 24-hour periods, we suggest the following additional reasons:…

Studies in Evolution — No. 1

Views: 84[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]             The world has shifted drastically in its frame of reference since the beginning of the 20th century. This has been especially noticeable in the Western World (Western Europe and the…

What Is Baptism? — No. 1

Views: 92[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.]             There is no single teaching of the New Testament over which more controversy has raged than the subject of baptism. There is only one reason why any controversy at…

Preaching to Needs

Views: 100[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The ideal sermon deals with the needs of those in the pew. The unending quest of those who preach must be to find the real needs of people and meet them…

“Narrow” Teachings of the New Testament

Views: 101[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Truth, whether historical, scientific, philosophical, mathematical, or religious is always narrow and exclusive. The truth that four is the sum of two plus two is very narrow and excludes all…