Posts by Randy Shaylor
Straight Cuts: The Responsibilities of Leaders and Followers
Randy Shaylor FrontLine • May/June 2007 Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they…
Read MoreHomosexuality: What the World Promotes, God Condemns
Randolph Shaylor One of the greatest problems facing contemporary American culture and Biblical Christianity is the pressure to accept homosexuality and same-sex marriage as the moral equivalent of heterosexuality and Biblical marriage. Today’s Christians face misinterpretation, twisting, and perversions of Scripture: God created homosexuals; they are born that way and cannot change; the sin of…
Read MoreAll Things to All Men—or—Be Ye Separate
Randolph Shaylor An important principle of the Word of God is separation from doctrinal and ecclesiastical compromise and from unrighteous lifestyles and practices. Yet we are inundated with publications and ministries that insist that we must attract people, especially young people, by appealing to contemporary desires. Paul’s statement “I am made all things to all…
Read MoreCharacteristics of Contentment
Randy Shaylor The Destruction of a Nation My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:1-7). The recently elected president and both political parties have focused attention on the need to improve education. [Comment refers to the election of 2000.] Though they all recognize the danger of the lack of knowledge, few are aware…
Read MoreA Tragic Exchange
Randy Shaylor “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. . . .” (Isaiah 5:20) Only by living the life of a hermit can one escape the fact that Americans have abandoned truth as a standard of life and as a spiritual and philosophical ideal. Whether it is called disingenuousness, prevarication, or spin,…
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