Visits: 25[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The worldly, fashion-mad nature of humankind has changed little through the centuries. Luke provides an interesting description of the philosophers whom Paul encountered at Mars Hill in ancient Athens: “Now all…
Visits: 19[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In order to please God, the doctrine of Christ must ever control our desires. Conversely, men behave exceedingly dangerously when desire becomes the father of their doctrine. This very phenomenon is…
Visits: 19[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page. Introduction On the Pentecost following our Lord’s resurrection and ascension “there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven,” plus numerous proselytes (Acts 2:5, 10).1 One historian estimates…
Visits: 20[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In the early 1950s W. Carl Ketcherside and Leroy Garrett were disturbing churches with their hobby that drew a distinction between gospel and doctrine. They alleged that only the “gospel” of…
Visits: 19Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Fifty years ago, lasciviousness, adultery, and fornication, were almost universally deemed reprehensible; they hardly raise an eyebrow anymore. New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, was forced to resign in 2008 for…
Visits: 23[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction From his earliest knowledge that God planned the church, Satan has despised the very concept of it and everything pertaining to it. His first plan of attack was to do all…
Visits: 47[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The Song of Solomon1 is a book of never-ending curiosity, comment, and controversy. McClintock and Strong observed: “No book of the Old Testament has been the subject of more varied criticism,…
Visits: 49[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Our English word pragmatic generally connotes that which is practical, that which “gets the job done,” sometimes to the exclusion of reasonable or artistic considerations. When I was a youngster…
Visits: 26[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In the beginning God created mankind, made them “male and female,” and commanded them to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Gen. 1:27–28)1. God further inspired Moses to state…
Visits: 17[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Several years ago I attended a debate on the issue of marriage, divorce, and remarriage. In the debate one of the antagonists foolishly contended that adultery merely means, “breaking the marriage…
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