What’s Wrong with Being Big?

Views: 78[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-3 page.]             I have never known it to fail. When a church starts to grow, the critics start to work on it I have never understood why a church that is not…

What It Means To Be a Christian

Views: 94[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–3 page.] The word Christian has greatly changed in meaning through the centuries. In modern usage, one may believe as little or much of the teaching of the New Testament, as long as…

Baptism—What does it mean?

Views: 67[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.] Few religious subjects have been more thoroughly discussed, debated, and preached and written about over the past 17 or so centuries than baptism. While it is interesting (and sometimes profitable) to…

The Active Word

Views: 79[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.]             In Hebrews 4:12, the inspired writer tells us that God’s Word is not only living but “active” (powerful—KJV). Energes is the Greek word here used. It is rendered “effectual”…

The Appropriateness of Warnings

Views: 96[Note: This MS is available in a larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] When compared with his letters to the Corinthians, the Galatians, or to Timothy and Titus, Paul’s letter to the Philippians is couched in very mild terms. The Philippian Church was…

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] An editorial in the Current-Argus by Ned Cantwell contained some thought-provoking words: Suppose the drafters of the Declaration of Independence had neglected to add this paragraph to their document:      And…