Sermons and Biblical Studies

No matter how sincere they may be, ministers without discernment are sure to err. Their conclusions are inevitably false because their reasoning is mechanical and without inspiration. I hear their error in our pulpits and read it in our religious periodicals; and it all sounds alike: revived churches engage in foreign missions; hence let us … Continue reading “REVIVAL:
CONDITIONS FOR; CHURCH: ACTIVITIES; CHURCH: FOCUS”

Christian leaders can help to bring about revival by refusing to pander to the carnal tastes of the religious public and going on a holy crusade for a purified church. If leaders have the courage to follow Christ all the way, they can be a powerful instrument of the Holy Ghost to bring about real … Continue reading “REVIVAL:
CONDITIONS FOR”

God’s message in Revelation, viewed as a whole, is a prognosis of events affecting the entire created universe—“the things that must soon take place” (22:6). Those who give themselves to its reading will sense they are on a fast-moving guided tour, discerning a variety of scenes and events in John’s panoramic view of the heavens … Continue reading “REVELATION:
BOOK OF; ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE”

Have you ever heard of a person eagerly reading an interesting book, then suddenly deciding to abandon it without reading the last chapter? The last chapter ties together the threads of the narrative; it summarizes the arguments; it climaxes the action. You and I would agree that to close a book without reading the final … Continue reading “REVELATION:
BOOK OF”

I have been around religious circles quite a long time and I have never heard the word resent used by a victorious man. Or at least if he used the word it was not to express any feelings within his own heart. In the course of scores of conferences and hundreds of conversations, I have … Continue reading “RESENTMENT;
BITTERNESS”

A story has been told about a governor of one of the states. He was concerned about the plight of many in the prison system, and he visited one of the prisons, going incognito. The prisoners did not know who he was. Having opportunity to talk to a young man, he asked why he was … Continue reading “REPENTANCE;
SALVATION: TRANSFORMATION”

Why is it we no longer find any sorrow, any tears of repentance in our church life? It is because we do not get the right start as Christians. We do not begin with a vision of the awesome God. We do not start right because we are jockeyed, cajoled, coaxed, kidded and sometimes pushed … Continue reading “REPENTANCE;
CHURCH: CONCEPT OF GOD; GOD: HIS AWESOMENESS”

Religious entertainment has so corrupted the Church of Christ that millions don’t know that it’s a heresy. Millions of evangelicals throughout the world have devoted themselves to religious entertainment. They don’t know that it’s as much a heresy as the counting of beads or the splashing of holy water or something else. To expose this, … Continue reading “RELIGIOUS
ENTERTAINMENT; CHURCH: ENTERTAINMENT”

The present flair for religion has not made people heavenly minded; rather it has secularized religion and put its approval upon the carnal values of fallen men. It glorifies success and eagerly prints religious testimonials from big corporation tycoons, actors, athletes, politicians and very important persons of every kind regardless of their reputation or lack … Continue reading “RELIGION:
POPULAR; CELEBRITIES”

Greater publicity for religion may be well and I have no fault to find with it. Surely religion should be the most newsworthy thing on earth, and there may be some small encouragement in the thought that vast numbers of persons want to read about it. What disturbs me is that, amidst all the religious … Continue reading “RELIGION:
IN THE NEWS”