Articles: 62
Biblical guidance for testing teachings, weighing influences, and recognizing what is true.
Whether we recognize it or not, we are all led by ideologies and principles. Good or bad, principles act as underlying forces that guide us in our everyday lives. Unfortunately, for the most part, the primary principle…
Introduction This message takes us straight to the core of the matter. And what is that “matter”? The “matter” is the distinction between the gospel of the kingdom and the typical “gospel” message that is preached in…
In the nearly eight years since we moved here, we have had several visitors who believe and teach something called “flat Bible” theology. “Flat Bible” thought is easy enough to recognize, but it has many variations.…
Introduction Many churches today are facing the pressure of dealing with the world’s music trying to get into the church. Some of it is coming in the back door, but some of it is also being introduced in the front door…
Looking down onto the floor of the Brooklyn Synagogue, our tour guide, Rabbi Beryl, explained the scene before us. He pointed out the men tightly and methodically wrapping their phylacteries around their arms, the…
The following is a portion of a letter we received. We are only using one paragraph of the letter, since that is the portion we want to address in this reply. It is just as preposterous to say that E.M. Bounds, by being…
I grew up as an Amish young girl, and when I was about four years old my mother taught me how to draw pain from the baby’s tummy. That way she could go on and work while I watched the baby for her. I remember vividly how…
You may not be familiar with the word “radiesthesia,” but you probably know what it is. “Water witching,” “dowsing,” and “divining” are all various forms of radiesthesia. Radiesthesia is a compound word with both Latin…
Suppose your name was Joe Scientist. And you have the grand privilege of being placed in the Garden of Eden on the sixth day of this universe’s existence, just like Adam did in the Bible. But you have some things that…
Dear publishers of The Heartbeat of the Remnant: I received your lovely publication in my mailbox today. But before I comment on your publication, let me tell you a bit about myself. I am a fourth year psychology major…
The smells of love feast are indelibly stamped into my memory. As a young boy, I sat on an old wooden bench just outside the kitchen of the meetinghouse and watched my mother cut bread for soup and make coffee. The…
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes; I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. Ps. 101:3 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it:…
Monarchy vs. Democracy One day I was talking with a coworker about the power of God to judge and rule the world. My coworker declared, “I think God is twisted to have destroyed the whole earth with a flood, including…
Our beloved Bible holds the record of being the most printed and translated book, having been translated into over 1200 languages. It also holds the title to being the book with the widest range of opinions concerning…
Introduction My purpose here is to think about five distinct approaches to biblical Christianity that can be observed in conservative churches today. This short list grew out of various conversations that I have…
One doesn’t have to look far to find a dead tradition. They lie around churches like the old tombstones of a church burial ground: rotting, crumbling, and yet too memory-filled to just dump over the hill somewhere. But…
We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms [ambiguities] into which they have been led .... There will be found remaining the…
In A.D. 449, in the famous New Testament city of Ephesus, bishops from all over the world gathered to discuss what they saw as a life-or-death point of theology. The issue? They wanted to nail down just how the two…
Men need nothing in these modern days so much as they need a working philosophy of life—an adequate way to live. Loosed from the moorings that have held life, many are now adrift. They claim to be free. They have thrown…
This may seem hard to believe, but just this month the USA secured a huge, $60 billion military contract with Saudi Arabia, with a shopping list that included the following: 84 F-15 fighter jets, 72 tactical Black Hawk…
Introduction In the previous issue, we printed the tract on “have to” vs. “want to” obedience. The following tract was usually bound in the same Anabaptist books with the other one, and since the writing style is so…
Death sounds like a bad thing, doesn’t it? Ughhh … The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 2:15-17, “For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of…
You have probably seen something like it on a tract somewhere, with a title along the lines of “How to Get to Heaven.” But the picture is seriously in error, doctrinally. What is that error? The man is misusing the…
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