40 Years of Monstrous and Murderous Abortion

Views: 77[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] The Pharaoh of Moses’ time ordered that every male Hebrew was to be slain at birth (Exo. 1:16, 22). He is remembered in Scripture (and by all right-thinking men) as…

“The Man or the Plan” Discussion Revisited

Views: 138[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction In the early 1960s I was a young preacher, not long out of Abilene Christian College. I well remember the lively brotherhood discussion of the Man or the plan controversy (actually,…

The “Purpose-Driven” Church Paradigm

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…

Who Is Your Master?

Views: 73[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] We must clearly decide whom we will serve. Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he…

The “No-Fault” Mentality

Views: 95[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The past few years have seen the burgeoning of a philosophy that threatens to utterly demote mankind to the level of brute beasts. For lack of a better term, I…

Sounds Like Some of Us

Views: 74[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.”…

Rejecting Jesus

Views: 74[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)….

“Oh, For an Honest False Teacher”

Views: 128[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…

“Mark” and “Turn Away From…”

Views: 74[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…

“Mainline” or “Sidetrack”?

Views: 78[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…