Ministers should be held , and hold themselves, to higher standards than those expected of the people to whom they minister. Ministers of the Gospel are not newborns in Christ, just introduced to the “ milk of the Word ,” and just learning the “first principles” of the Word of God (1 Cor. 3:1-3; Heb. 5:12-14). They are men qualified by their being “ apt to teach ” and who are assumed to be “ skillful in the word of righteousness ” and in “ rightly dividing the word of truth. ” (Heb. 5:13; 2...

Christians should, in the interest of being “salt” and “light” to a lost world (Matt. 5:13-16), care about how they are perceived by others and should want to be a source of edification, not a cause of stumbling to their brothers and sisters in Christ (Rom. 14:13). As their knowledge of God’s Word Increases and they become more and more spiritually mature they will appreciate more and more what they communicate about themselves in terms of their testimony: in terms of their conversation  (Ps....

Stop using euphemisms like “democrats,” “progressives”and “liberal” in reference to people who are philosophically, in practice, and by definition, simply Marxists and communists. However much they may prefer to think of themselves and be thought of as democrats, progressives or liberals, others should refuse to play along with their subterfuge. They are in fact, America's "enemies within." It isn’t what people call themselves, but how they conduct themselves that identifies who and what...