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ABORTION: A SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUE Against the rising tide of permissive legislation relative to abortion on request, those who raise religious arguments seem to have little success in stemming the waves. This is so because the religious arguments carry no weight with those who have long since assumed that the arguments are sociological rather than religious. […]

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Children: Bane or Blessing?

May all Christians everywhere break the deadly silence that is allowing the world to dictate to God—crushing out the future generations! “Abortion” has prime time in the news today, Legislators struggle with demands for liberalized laws on it. “Women’s Lib” carries on a vigorous and noisy crusade for a woman’s “right to have a baby […]

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RELEVANCY Let’s get with it. No more fuddy-duddy sermons on such abstract things as divine election, sanctification, prayer, heaven-hell, salvation, divine adoption, and the like. Let’s be relevant. Let’s have sermons on the Blacks, dope addiction, Vietnam, civil disobedience, mail strikes, pollution, abortion and revolution. So cry some non-relevant critics. Yes, let the church preach […]

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THE LONG WEEKEND? The Christian Labor Herald (February, 1967) presented an interesting report entitled “Holidays On Monday.” It stated that the members of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States were polled as to whether or nGt they would favor the observance of Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Veteran’s Day and Washington’s birthday on Monday. The purpose […]

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The Philosophy of Death

Horrifyingly, some fifty-seven million babies were aborted in their mothers’ wombs since the passage of Roe v. Wade forty-four years ago. There’s much that can be said of abortion—the thinking that justifies it, how it has become a stock response among many, and the hardening of society’s collective conscience because of this.               A voice for […]

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Abortion: Choice or Murder?

Do you think everyone has a God-given right to have life? First we better understand what we mean by the word life. Good ol’ Webster’s Dictionary has much to say about this little word. Here is just the first part of its definition: “That property of plants and animals which makes it possible for them […]

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Abortion: Choice or Murder? (II)

Remember last time we talked about life—when it begins and what it means? We also talked about man’s definition of life from the dictionary and God’s definition of life from the Bible. Did you look up the Bible passage at the end of the previous article? Hope so. It was Psalm 139:13: “For You (God) created […]

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In this issue the author begins a series of three articles dealing with the hermeneutical downward spiral. This month he examines the roots of this spiral in the Enlightenment of three hundred years ago. In the second article he will trace the downward spiral in the now liberal Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA). In the third […]

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Having examined the roots of the downward hermeneutical spiral in the Enlightenment of 300 years ago in Europe and England, author Dennison now examines the American PCUSA in which the Enlightenment has triumphed virtually completely. The Editors In one American denomination in particular, the Enlightenment model has triumphed virtually completely. I am referring to the […]

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Speaking the Truth to Power

At a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, February 3, Mother Teresa of Calcutta delivered the most startling and bold proclamation of truth to power I have heard in my more than 30 professional years in Washington. Before an audience of 3,000—that included the President and his wife, the Vice President and his wife and congressional […]

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