Objections to Evolution

Views: 92[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             Through books, movies, magazine articles, television programs, and other media, the public is constantly bombarded with the evolutionary theories concerning the origin of the universe and the life within it….

Listen to Your Preacher—No. 3

Views: 96[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             The hearer has no less responsibility than the preacher. Those who listen to a message concerning their souls must very carefully weigh it against what the Bible says. If it…

Listen to Your Preacher—No. 2

Views: 78[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             Those who listen to preachers have the responsibility to listen carefully: “Beloved, believe not every spirit but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are…

Listen to Your Preacher—No. 1

Views: 91[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             Preachers have a heavy responsibility, but so do listeners. Jesus warned, “Take heed what ye hear” (Mark 14:24). Not only the blind leaders “fall into the ditch,” but the blind…

Jesus—Mere Man or God Incarnate?

Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.] Was Jesus Christ merely a “good man” or was he more than man? The second century Gnostics and their modern counterparts (e.g., the Jehovah’s Witnesses) say he was merely a created…

How to Study Your Bible

Views: 90[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.] [Editor’s Note: I’ve had this article in my files for some time, and its author’s name if ever attached, has not survived with my copy of it. It deals with basic…

Getting Into Christ

Views: 83[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]       Every spiritual blessing God has designed for us is found only “in Christ” (Eph. 1:3). These include forgiveness of sins at which time our condemnation is lifted (Rom. 8:1),…

The Retreat from Excellence

Views: 84[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–2 page.]             Without intending to be pessimistic, it appears to me that our world has suffered by the large scale “retreat from excellence” in recent years.  Those who are experts in the…

Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Critical Review

Views: 1108[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             In the mid-1970s, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a diminutive book by Richard Bach, captivated American readers, breaking sales records in both hard back and paperback editions, and the movie version played…

New Testament Worship — Studying God’s Word

Views: 88[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]        When the church in Troas met on the Lord’s day, Paul preached to them (Acts 20:7). The preaching and teaching of the Gospel were certainly not confined to…