Sermons and Biblical Studies

by Dan Elmore Forerunner, "Ready Answer," November 1, 2010 “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” —Ecclesiastes 3:1 Most of us are probably familiar with Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, but it may be a passage that we have not considered for a while: For everything there is a fixed time, and … Continue reading “Timing Is Everything”

by Richard T. Ritenbaugh Forerunner, "WorldWatch," November 1, 2010 Ever since March 23, 2010, when President Barack Obama penned his signature on “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”—known by its opponents as “Obamacare”—the political landscape in the United States has been in turmoil. The Tea Party, a grassroots conservative movement determined to see Constitutional … Continue reading “Socialism’s Inherent Contradiction”

by John W. Ritenbaugh Forerunner, "Personal," August 12, 2010 For fifty years, I believed what I had originally been taught in preparation for baptism regarding the “Born Again” doctrine. What I learned then had been reshaped somewhat from what was normally taught in most churches, and it had been renamed as “Begotten Again” because church … Continue reading “Born Again or Begotten? (Part One)”

by Bill Keesee (1935-2010) Forerunner, "Prophecy Watch," August 12, 2010 In the Old Testament, the Feast of Pentecost is called the “Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field” (Exodus 23:16). It culminated a grain harvest that began with the “Feast of Firstfruits,” which we know as the … Continue reading “The Harvesting of the Firstfruits”

by David C. Grabbe Forerunner, "Ready Answer," August 12, 2010 In the Olivet Prophecy found in Matthew 24, Jesus Christ answers His disciples' questions regarding the timing and sign of His second coming and the end of the age. In describing the persecution and tribulation that corresponds to the Fifth Seal (Matthew 24:9-14; Revelation 6:9), … Continue reading “Is the Love of Many Growing Cold?”

by Richard T. Ritenbaugh Forerunner, "WorldWatch," August 12, 2010 The world at large became uncomfortably aware of the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal in the mid-1990s, when news of priestly pederasty sparked a public outcry against both the occurrence of such perversion and the Church's lackluster response to it. However, the problem is far … Continue reading “The Catholic Church: Declining or Reviving?”

by David C. Grabbe Forerunner, "Ready Answer," June 28, 2010 “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil . . .” —Proverbs 8:13 At the Feast of Tabernacles in Columbia, Missouri, my wife and I saw something that illustrates the double-mindedness of this world. Returning to the hotel after lunch one day, we pulled … Continue reading “Hating Evil, Fearing God”

by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021) Forerunner, "Prophecy Watch," June 28, 2010 The life of a prophet of God is, by all accounts, a difficult and burdensome one. God's prophets have had revealed to them both insight into the nation's or world's present state of affairs and foresight into future events—and neither of these tend to dwell … Continue reading “The Torment of the Godly (Part Two)”

by John W. Ritenbaugh Forerunner, "Personal," June 28, 2010 Why do the Bible's writers illustrate sin in such strong terms? The Bible is unequivocal in its warnings and denunciations against sin from beginning to end. Part of the reason for this strong stance is because the writers perceived sin within the big picture of why … Continue reading “Sin, Christians, and the Fear of God”

by John W. Ritenbaugh Forerunner, "Personal," April 27, 2010 During a recent trip to Trinidad, I read a newspaper account of a meeting regarding government-provided school education. During the meeting Labor Minister Rennie Dumas, the main speaker, said, “There is no such thing as free education.” This is a truth, but people tend to overlook … Continue reading “The Awesome Cost of Love”