The Christian and Persecution

Views: 135[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction Life is a testing ground, a time of probation. The tests, trials, temptations, and challenges come in many forms and from many sources. Some are easily recognized because they are so…

Life Begins at Conception—So Abortion Is Murder

Views: 128[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] January 22, 2022 marks the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. In that span more than 61,670,000 totally innocent, helpless human beings have been slain in the…

Declaring War on the Fellowship of the Lord’s Church

Views: 146[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction  Satan and all of his minions outside the church have always opposed it. He did his best to prevent the Lord from establishing the church in the first place. Although he…

Another Response on Humanism.

Views: 123[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] How strange it is that those who pride themselves in being most liberal toward and tolerant of every philosophy, lifestyle, and religion can be exceedingly intolerant toward those whom they judge to…

Respect for Scripture

Views: 98[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles  page.] Of the Law of Moses Jesus said: Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least com­mandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but…

“Put Things Right”

Views: 136[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] NASA launched Voyager Spacecrafts 1 and 2 in 1977. They continue to make space exploration history on several counts. After sending back stunning pictures of Saturn (1980), Uranus (1986), and Neptune…

Morals in an Immoral Age

Views: 207[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction It is no secret to those of us who have lived a few decades that our nation has suffered a catastrophic decline in moral principle and behavior over this span. Those…

Ben Franklin Spanks Tom Paine

Views: 111[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Tom Paine was a colonial patriot, credited by some with being the “Father of the American Revolution.” He was given this moniker chiefly for his January 1776 pro-independence pamphlet titled Common Sense,…

Religion by Majority

Views: 144[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] A Pew Poll of 35,000 Americans, released in June 2008, revealed some interesting statistics about religious beliefs. More than half (57%) of “evangelicals” (strong in their belief in the Bible and in…

“Hell at Last!”

Views: 116[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] To believe in Heaven is to believe in Hell, just as the Bible, especially the New Testament, depicts both of them. Concerning the unrighteous and the righteous, respectively, at The Judgment,…