The Older I Get

Views: 71[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Growing older has its disadvantages. Someone has quipped that it’s better than the alternative, even so. Now, I don’t consider myself to be elderly yet, by a long shot. In…

Time Will Tell

Views: 78[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The passing of time has a great way of putting things in true perspective. A president may be hated and cursed by his contemporaries, but his administration may be given a…

Sin: No Laughing Matter

Views: 88[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Our world thinks sin is hilarious. The formerly suggestive lines and scenes in movies and TV have given way to the explicit. The dirty joke and four-letter vocabulary are sources…

What Are Parents For?

Views: 73[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Someone has remarked that parents are not for raising children, but children are for raising parents. While there is surely an element of truth in the statement that bringing children…

“Fringe Area” Christianity

Views: 62[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In spite of the numerous TV transmitters that dot the map of our nation, there are still some remote spots that can only barely receive a picture. These are called “fringe…

What About Worship?

Views: 77 [Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.]  Christian worship involves reverent acts of homage paid to God and/ or Jesus Christ. While the Old Testament is the inspired revelation of God, its authority perished with the…

The Same Subjects, but New Applications

Views: 86[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Occasionally I review some of the sermon material I preached as a young man several decades ago (and am still preaching). I am often impressed with a striking phenomenon: Several…

Worldliness

Views: 67[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] The word worldliness does not appear in the standard versions of the Bible, but the trait is referred to often. Worldliness is the condition of being worldly. The “world” God’s…