Religion & Tradition

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, ‘If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his innermost…

Having been in several dozen denominational and non-denominational Christian churches, I have noticed something very peculiar. I have been in once saved, always saved churches, and I have been in churches where a mustache on your face will send you…

The Bible contains the writings of several men who seem very difficult to understand. The church has always had a difficult time with these men’s writings. And yet we know all Scripture is profitable to those who exercise themselves with them. One…

I thought I had outgrown my ability to be moved by guilt. But recently, I found myself in a situation where it was the very force which brought so much confusion, that it was severely hindering me from flowing in…

Oh, Christians, should Ezekiel dig a hole in the walls of Christendom, what kind of idols would he find? Would he find relics, holy water, statues, pictures of blue-eyed Jesus’, gaudy priestly Babylonian garments, dead saints under the altar, crackers…

Ezek. 14:1-6 (NIV): 1 Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me. 2 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 3 “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling…

The titles religious men and women have heaped upon themselves are too numerous to mention in this short article. The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church seems to hold the title for most in number and greatest in arrogance. Perhaps…

Hokum Hyp, short for Hokum Hypnosis, as mentioned in the previous article, is a method of planting a thought in advance which is to be acted upon later. It is a technique used by thousands of church leaders to increase…

If you are like most Christians, you are very busy, and don’t want to waste your time reading material that either doesn’t interest you or does not line up with the teaching of the denomination or movement you have chosen…

This year seems to be a harvest year, and the harvest was indeed plentiful. The leading Christian ministries headquartered in the United States were fleeced of hundreds of millions of, no not wool, but millions of your hard earned dollars.…

Women’s Conference in China Under this heading, we occasionally point out a problem facing the world and show how it very often is nothing but a reflection on a major problem in the church. If we could just see that,…

Recently, I had a conversation with a man who had just graduated from college. He did not go to college to learn skills which would advance him in his career. He was retired. He went just to learn. He studied…

The following is a couple of pages from a book by J. B. Phillips entitled Your God Is Too Small, published by Macmillan Press. To many people, conscience is almost all that they have by way of knowledge of God. This…

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” It gives me great joy to be able to declare the above scripture to be…