Every major discussion of ethics these days begins with an analysis of the chaotic situation of modern culture. Even secular writers and thinkers are calling for some sort of basic agreement on ethica...
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A Preamble, a Short Statement, Nineteen Articles of Affirmation and Denial, and a more ample Exposition. Materials submitted at the meeting
Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
When strong unbelief is present, the church’s vision, zeal, passion, and commitment for evangelism tend to decline. Who would be zealous about urging other people to believe something that they themse...
When sin is characterized as a crime, we see that Christ is the One Who actually comes under judgment in the drama of the atonement. He functions as the Substitute, the One Who stands in the place of...
When I violate one point of God's law, I bring myself into opposition to God Himself.
When Adolf Hitler came to power, the Nazis were not content to find a final solution for Jews and Gypsies. They also sought to eliminate intellectuals whose ideas were at odds with the values of the T...
What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limited by our freedom, we are sovereign, not God. No, we are free, but God is even...
We often hear that people don’t like to be in the presence of Christians because Christians manifest a smug, self-righteous attitude or a goody-two-shoes, holier-than-thou attitude. But this should no...
We need Christ-the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher's patternsimply won't do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. A...
We affirm that the Scriptures are the supreme written norm by which God binds the conscience, and that the authority of the church is subordinate to that of Scripture. We deny that church creeds, coun...
Walking the narrow way involves not a distorted mental attitude but a clear understanding of what righteousness demands.
Today a frightening lack of fear of God prevails in our world. Martin Luther once remarked that those around him spoke to God as if He were a shoe clerk's apprentice. If that was true in Luther's day,...
Thus, we urge our Christian brothers and sisters of all professions and denominations
Those who want to reduce Christianity to a set of moral guidelines and restrict Jesus to the role of ethical teacher or moralist fail to observe that much of what Jesus said was about Himself.
These prophets of doom point out that man's destructive capability increased from 1945 to 1960 by the same ratio as it did from the primitive weapons of the Stone Age to the dropping of the atomic bom...
Then God stooped to earth and carefully fashioned a piece of clay. He lifted it gently to His lips and breathed into it. The clay began to move. It began to think. It began to feel. It began to worshi...
The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, whims, or marketing strategies. Pleasing
The study of theology is simply the study of the character of God, whose crowning virtue is love. Sound theology actually teaches the central importance of love and inclines us to love the God of the...