Biblical Articles
Ignorance And Rationality
The Dallas Morning News published two related articles on the subject of atheism which are somewhat unique. One deals with an atheistic church--an interesting concept that will be dealt with later; the other discusses atheistic opposition to religion. Both stories...
Is God Responsible For My Problems?
Periodically, over a few weeks' time, Parade Magazine has published responses of young people to the question, "Do you believe in God?" Much of the thinking has been quite superficial and insubstantial, whether the person believed or disbelieved. The truly disturbing...
ATHEISTIC MORALITY (Part 2)
Humanists such as Paul Kurtz try to sound as though a moral standard can be easily established in the absence of theism, but the attempt fails swiftly. We examined last week one of the heroines he selected as a model of responsible and ethical behavior, Margaret...
The Homosexual Church
October 27's Friday Religion section of the Denton Record-Chronicle led off with a front page article about the Harvest Metropolitan Community Church, located just south of Denton. As is usual for the news media, Jessica DeLeon's story presented the group in a...
Blessed Is He Who Readeth
A few years ago, the late brother Guy N. Woods told of a minister who called for the removal of the Bible from his congregation for a period of six months. Recently, I received an e-mail in which the writer expressed the view that the public reading of Scripture was...
A Letter From A Fanatic
Several members received letters from Dan Billingsly within the last week. Many of you probably glanced at the fourteen page dissertation and dismissed it as the rantings of an individual who thrives on controversy and wants to debate everybody and his cousin. In...
Major Lessons From The Major Prophets
This year's book will be well worth having, containing somewhere around 675 pages of excellent material on the Gospel according to Matthew. But this week we want to highlight 579 pages of the recent Power Lectures: Major Lessons of the Major Prophets . The two...
The Last Will And Testament Of Justice
To whomever it may concern: My name is Justice. I have been very sick for the last nine months. This past week I mistakenly thought I was going to recover, but I suddenly took a turn for the worse and died. Do not imagine that all is hopeless. I have died before (the...
Only Christians Are Biased
"Breaking Ground Together," the latest pro-homosexual propaganda piece to appear in The Dallas Morning News (September 20, 1995), confirmed once again the elitist philosophy toward Christianity and the practice of unnatural sexual relations: columnists such as Colleen...
Arguments For Drinking
In the previous two weeks we have examined four arguments against drinking. They have involved: 1) the bitter fruits of alcohol, 2) abstaining from fellowshipping that which causes abundant miseries, 3) the effects of alcohol, and 4) guarding one's influence....
Arguments Against Drinking (Part 2)
The leading cause of death for those between the ages of sixteen and twenty is the traffic crash (the word accident is purposely not used). This age group comprises only 6.7% of the total driving population (for 1993), but they were 13.5% of the drivers involved in...
Arguments Against Drinking” (Part 1)
One subject that perennially perplexes some members of the church is the drinking of alcoholic beverages. Not infrequently the question is asked, "Is it wrong just to take a drink now and then?" The answer is an unequivocal, "YES!" This series of articles will explore...
THE CONLEY-LUTHER DEBATE: SUFFICIENCY OF THE WORD
This final article on the first two nights of the recent debate in San Antonio will deal with the two opposing views of the sufficiency of the Word of God. The man representing the Catholic Church, Michael Luther, charged that the Bible is neither complete nor...
THE CONLEY-LUTHER DEBATE: AUTHORITY
The above title may not be the official one for the discussion held August 14th-15th in San Antonio. Since brother Conley went on to debate Robert M. Narvaez on August 16th-17th, who knows what the entire procedure will be called? Both opponents are part of a group...
What I Appreciated About the Committed Catholic
This past Monday and Tuesday (August 14th-15th) I attended the debate in San Antonio between Darrell Conley and Mike Luther, who is a member of Catholic Response, a "lay" Catholic organization. Brother Conley was affirming the following proposition: "The church of...
The Real Reason For Capital Punishment
Last week we took issue with a local editorial concerning Susan Smith and capital punishment. Frequently, it is the case that society's liberals (which includes most college professors and newspaper editors) oppose using the death penalty under any circumstances. They...
The Proper Punishment
The Denton Record-Chronicle took the position on Monday, July 31st, that Susan Smith had received the appropriate sentence for her crime. The editorial did not appear to be against capital punishment per se (which is fortunate, since the one the next day justified the...
7 Types of Christians
Selected (With Additions by Gary W. Summers) Did you know there are different types of Christians described in the Bible? There are the strong and the weak (Rom. 15:1); the spiritual and the carnal (1 Cor. 3:1); the hot and the cold (Rev. 3:15); and the stable and the...
Why I Left Denominationalism
From childhood until about the age of fifteen I attended a denomination. No, there was no choice in the matter, and I did not enjoy it--even though I had sung in the choir. Part of the reason I disliked the worship ordeal was that it was very formal, and I had to be...
If I Were Satan
All throughout the Old Testament Satan did everything within his power to prevent God from redeeming mankind. Through his influence man became so corrupted that God destroyed the world--except for eight souls. The nation through whom God chose to bring the Messiah...