Mightier Than The Sword (Part Fourteen)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughRalph Waldo Emerson's insistence that every person is free to be his own god served as the underpinnings of the ascendant, emergent religion of humanism.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twelve)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughIn one of his writings, Emerson reacts with anger, adamantly rejecting any force, custom, or tradition which threatened to put his intellect in chains.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eleven)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughRalph Waldo Emerson was America's foremost practitioner of Transcendentalism and Pantheism, which equate the creation and the Creator, ignoring Him.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Thirteen)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughAlthough Transcendentalism as a movement never had an abundance of adherents, Emerson's teachings did permeate the schools of philosophy of the Ivy League.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Fifteen)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughKarl Marx was an angry, rage-filled, madman from Trier, whose philosophy is responsible for the mass murder of upwards to 200 million people.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Twenty-Two)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughEvery one of the philosophers who have wreaked havoc upon greater Israel were themselves Israelite and Semitic, bringing curses on their fellow Semites.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eighteen)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughIn Darwin's teenage years, his mind became twisted, leading him to commit sadistic acts of cruelty against animals and killing them for pleasure.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twenty-One)
Commentary by John W. RitenbaughIn 1888, Nietzsche identified himself as the anti-Christ, about a month before he became clinically insane, never to recover his lucidity.
The Importance of God's Word
Commentary by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)II Thessalonians 2:6-7 speaks of a force capable of restraining the emergence of the man of lawlessness. God's word and revelation is what restrains iniquity.
Corporate Faith
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughCorporate faith requires that we lay aside our individualism and join our brethren doing God's work.
A Godly Quest for Pleasure
Article by David F. MaasIs a Christian denied a pleasurable life? Are we relegated to lives of drab monotony and duty? On the contrary, we are created to experience pleasure.
Is God's Way Simple?
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughJust because something is simple does not make it true and just because something is complex does not make it false. Deeper knowledge often comes with complexity.