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Satan, Demons, and World Chaos (1)
William Ward Ayer Few people believe in a personal devil. However, they readily accept the horned, spear-tailed, hoofed caricature which Satan has created to deceive mankind. There is in our day a world-wide surge in satanic activity. Aware that his time is short and his ultimate defeat certain, the Prince of this world has mobilized…
Read MoreOn What Authority?
Don Johnson Matthew 7.28-29 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. A big story came out the other day – Al Mohler speaks at Brigham Young University. Mohler isn’t the first…
Read MoreWhat the Biblical Home and the Fundamental Baptist Church Have in Common
John Vaughn When Satan skews the illustrations of God’s truth, he is actually working to skew the truth itself. We know that God has ordained marriage to be a committed relationship between one man and one woman, but why? His explanation is clearly given in both Testaments. In Genesis 2:24, we are told, “Therefore (because…
Read MoreA Biblical Perspective of Marriage
Dave Pennington In a day when the definition of marriage is debated, one has to determine what constitutes a marriage. Can a marriage occur between two women or two men? Is it really necessary for people to marry? Why can’t they just live together? What is a marriage anyway? If someone asked a group of…
Read MoreWomen in Luke’s Gospel
Layton Talbert In recent years Biblical scholarship has seen a revival of interest in the role of women in the Bible. Unfortunately, this interest is too often motivated by or mixed with a modern feminist mentality that seeks to liberate women from an imagined patriarchal suppression of their historical significance and contributions. The result is…
Read MoreThe Greatness of the Gospel
Chuck Phelps The gospel is “good news.” It is the good news of God. God sent His Son, our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, into the world to bear our sins in His body on the tree (Isaiah 53) so that we might be reconciled to God through Him (2 Cor. 5:18). In a world filled…
Read MoreWhy Study End Times and Revelation?
Dan Greenfield This doctrine (“end times,” or eschatology) is often relegated to— “Non-essential,” dividing believers Last thing (irony!)—if ever—covered in doctrinal studies and Bible surveys Too difficult to understand, so why bother invest the time Over generalization—specifics and particulars are mixed in to a vanilla ice cream “Jesus will raise the dead and all will…
Read MoreMisfortune or Providence?
Excerpted from Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp by Mikhail Khorev (Grummersbach, West Germany: Missionswerk Friedenstimme, 1986). Reprinted 1989 by Baker Book House. Used by permission. Born in 1931, Mikhail Khorev was imprisoned for his faith and ministry in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s and again from 1980 to 1986. Plagued from birth…
Read MoreThere Cometh One After Me …
Kerry James Allen Probably most of us who are attempting to serve the Lord Jesus Christ in some capacity aspire to recognition and acknowledgment of our accomplishments. We would like to think that our teaching, preaching, and assorted labors for the Kingdom will have an impact on this and future generations. Discouragement is part of…
Read MoreWhat Do Your Clothes Say About You?
Dr. David C. Innes Dr. Innes published this article in 1993. He has allowed us to republish it here. We think he espouses principles that Christian men and women ought to seriously consider applying to their lives in order to become the best possible testimony for Christ. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT In a most unique…
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