God's Law

God's Law serves an important purpose, both historically and in modern times. God's Law shows His character, His justice, and points forward to His Son, Jesus Christ.

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World News and Trends: Ten Commandments or ten suggestions?

What did Moses bring down from Mt. Sinai: the Ten Commandments or ten suggestions?
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Living God's Way Works

A mutiny in the South Seas brought nothing but woe, until a sailor stumbled across an old book
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Cliff-Hanger

When you reach the end of your rope, would you be willing to let go? This modern parable makes you stop and think.
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Is It Anti-American to Criticize the Moral Conduct of the United States?

Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York state, recently wrote in USA Today: "The brilliance of the Founding Fathers has been confirmed by the astonishing success of their experiment in republican democracy" (Dec. 7, 2004). Yet the United States owes...
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In Brief World News Review Study Shows TV Programming Ridicules Religion

A group called the Parents Television Council (PTC) recently published the results of an extensive study of how the seven commercial broadcast networks treat religion.
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Fear Factor

We live in an age of fear, but God promises relief from worry and despair for those who follow Him.
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World News and Trends: Ignorance of the Ten Commandments abounds in Britain

A recent survey in Britain revealed that "almost one youngster in 10 has never heard of the Ten Commandments."
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World News and Trends- Displaying the Ten Commandments: enigma solved

Nothing seems so perplexing to both the U.S. Supreme Court and the American public than whether a display of the Ten Commandments on government property is legal and/or moral.
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Governments Legislating Morality

Does the freedom of Western democracy license people to choose their own morality? Or can government legislate it? Actually, neither is true!
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Kissed by an Angel

Could a chance encounter with a stranger be something more? Whether we’re helping an angel or helping a fellow human being made in God’s image, God wants us to be kind, merciful and loving—just as He is.
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Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Civilization

Many fail to realize the dangerous path that same-sex marriage is leading us down. Far more is involved than the opportunity for two members of the same sex to marry.
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Restoration: Another Brick in a New World

I wonder when filmmakers will take a bold step away from sex and finally tell a story without major emphasis on the sexual preferences of the main characters. Maybe not in my lifetime, but I can always hope.
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Man's Missing Ingredient

An editorial note from Scott Ashley
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In Brief... World News Review: "Holy" Land Far From Holy

The nation of Israel is often called the Holy Land, but that isn't an apt description of its inhabitants' present lifestyle.
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World News and Trends: Forty years of "do as you please"

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, acutely aware of the need to counter out-of-control crime and disorder in scattered areas of the United Kingdom, blamed the permissive 1960s for today's collapsing values.
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I don’t keep the feasts listed in Leviticus 23 while my friend who is in the United Church of God does. My pastor says we would have to keep all the Old Testament laws if we are to keep those feasts. Why is it necessary, since we don’t sacrifice anymore

Are the Old Testament feasts to be kept?
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Radical Liberalism

Lawyers argue in U.S. courts that pornography falls under the constitutional right of free speech. There is a strong movement to replace Judeo-Christian influences in schools with extreme multiculturalism. Radical feminists denounce concepts of the traditional family. Homosexuals want to...
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The Battle Over the Bible

A cultural clash is ripping at the fabric of Western societies. It’s most pronounced in the United States, where history is being rewritten and culture reshaped in a battle over the Bible.
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Our Cultural Battlegrounds

An editorial note from Scott Ashley
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The Gay Rights Battle

Is there a logical and biblically supportable solution to the gay rights battle?