Corrective Church Discipline in the New Testament

Visits: 17[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The requirement of corrective discipline is present in every area of our lives. If the state does not exercise it, there will be anarchy in the land. If it is not…

“Bye Bye Baby”

Visits: 12[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] A few years ago, Hayes Carl wrote “Bye Bye Baby,” a country music song lamenting a broken romance. This title would serve well for a song about the Pharaoh who…

Christ Confronted Error About Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage

Visits: 19[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction To shallow Bible students, calling Jesus Christ “the great controversialist” might appear misguided, if not blasphemous. They would propose, contrariwise, that He is the source of peace, rather than of conflict,…

God’s Vengeance and Mercy and Israel’s Fervent Prayer for Help—Isaiah 63-64[1]—Andy McClish

Visits: 12[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page. Introduction In general, it is accurate to think of the book of Isaiah as dealing with both history and prophecy relative to the nation of Israel, its relationship to Jehovah/God, and the…

How We Got Where We Are—A Half Century of Church History

Visits: 23[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The Lord’s church today is not the same body it was fifty years ago. My grandfather (an elder for forty years in central Texas) or even my father (whose more than…

Has the New Testament Church Been Restored?

Visits: 27[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction It has become popular among numerous religious elitists to guffaw at the very suggestion that the original church has been restored to its pristine state in modern times. Such scoffers utter…

The Necessity of Knowing Church History, etc.

Visits: 11             Seven hundred fifty years before Jesus’ birth, Hosea, on behalf of God, denounced Israel’s ignorance and its consequence: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest…

The Validity of the Pleas for Restoration

Visits: 23 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.]        Introduction The following quotations tell the reader all he needs to know about the theological agenda of the book under review: To confine themselves to Bible words without…

A Plea for the Plea

Visits: 55[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] There is no more exciting and thrilling ideal to those who hunger and thirst for ultimate Truth than that of being a part of the church of the Bible. The incomparable…

Romans 16—a Commentary

Visits: 213Romans 16 is one of the most completely personal sections to come from the pen of Paul or from that of any inspired writer. Of its twenty-seven verses eighteen of them relate to per­sonal commendations, greetings to those in Rome, or greetings being sent…