When Kingdoms Clash
Rap, rap, rap, rap. Something about the urgency and the firmness of the knocks on your front door tell you that whoever is standing out there needs help. Even though your digital clock gleams 1:38 a.m., you are…
Mike Atnip↗
Articles: 43
Non-resistance
Reflections on Jesus’ teaching about loving enemies, refusing retaliation, and making peace.
The Third Baptism
I have a baptism to be baptized with ... Luke 12:50 One could fill a library with the books that have been written about the first two baptisms. In the life of Jesus, our Perfect Example, we find Him being baptized with…
Mike Atnip↗
Feb 6, 1736
At noon our third storm began. At four it was more violent than before. The winds roared round about us, and whistled as distinctly as if it had been a human voice. The ship not only rocked to and fro with the utmost…
John Wesley↗
Virtuous Girlhood from the Bible
That they may teach the young women ... And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth. Ju 11:36 Jephthah’s daughter is a…
By Barbara Ste. Marie↗
Questions & Answers and Letters to the Editor
For the last year or so we have not included any letters to the editor in the magazine. Thanks to all who have written, offering encouragements, corrections, questions, and plain old disagreements about what we have…
The Seditious Sermon
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…
E. Stanley Jones↗
Key Differences between Evangelicals and Anabaptists
Evangelicals have more influence on Anabaptists in the United States than any other Christian group. Because they believe exactly the same as the Anabaptists on issues such as the authority of Scripture, we feel a…
By Nolan C. Martin↗
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Celsus urges us “to help the king with all our might, and to work with him in the preservation of justice, to fight for him; and if he requires it, to fight under him, or lead an army along with him.” We reply to this…
Origen (A.D. 185-254)↗
Bondage in Freedom
In April 1992, an angry resident of Sanilac County, Michigan, wrote a letter to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. He was announcing his rejection of the “Corporate State of Michigan and the United States.” He…
Rick Hess↗
A Letter on True Patriotism
Dear Friend: Allow me to say that it excites both my wonder and concern that a Christian minister such as yourself should think it worth his while to attempt political reforms. When I look around upon the present state…
John Newton↗
“You won’t find those here ...”
An interesting thing happened last month here in Lancaster County. The day was September 11, and an apparently patriotic elderly gentleman went into Good’s Store looking to purchase a few new flags to adorn his lawn—as a…
Dean Taylor↗
Christ’s Message to American Christians
As we examine God’s Word from cover to cover, we find that every part of it points in some way to the person of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament points forward to Him, the Gospels reveal Him, and the rest of the New…
Roger Hertzler↗
Sitting in the Gates of Sodom
This past election will go down in history as a significant setback for conservative Christians in America. The “liberals” won the White House, as well as healthy majorities in the Senate and the House of…
by Roger Hertzler↗
A Pen or A Sword
You see two men, armed to the teeth, warring for righteousness. One is looking left, the other right (on purpose, for the composite I made). They are real historical figures, etched as a relief in stone. On the left is…
by Mike Atnip↗
Zwingli—Reformer
In a previous study of the Reformation in Switzerland, we looked at the birth of the Anabaptist movement, and the Schleitheim confession. Remaining was the question as to how fellow-Christians could become so intensely…
by Glendon Fox↗
A DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR
We wrestle not against flesh and blood— We wrestle against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:12 (adapted) The Apostle…
by Denny Kenaston↗
A Change of Allegiance
There are a number of books available on the subject of nonresistance, but A Change of Allegiance by Dean Taylor is one of the best I’ve ever read. One of the things that makes this book unique is that it is written from…
A Book Review by David Bercot↗
Thoughts on The Martyrs Mirror
One of the most impressive historical accounts of radical Christianity and Christian persecution was recorded soon after the Reformation in a large book entitled The Martyrs Mirror. This stout-hearted work was compiled…
Dean Taylor↗
“Shall I enter the Army?” Moody said, “No.”
The nineteenth century witnessed the greatest advance the Christian church had ever known. Missions, education and evangelism flourished and prospered. Great names emerged: Livingstone, Spurgeon, Booth, Finney, and…
