[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The first Pentecost Day after Jesus’ ascension to Heaven found a throng in Jerusalem from “every nation under heaven” (Acts 2:5). Of that number, about 3,000 obeyed the apostolic message by…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] I have been reading church bulletins more six decades. I have served as editor of church bulletins for over five decades. At one time, the mailbox of the church where I…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–1 page.] It is apparent that many members of the church conceive of the church of Christ as merely a denomination. Such statements as “I am a Church of Christer,” “I am a Church…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] We notice it when a business or service attracts a large clientele. An advertisement recently stated, “15 million people can’t be wrong.” Likewise, when a religious group manifests rapid numerical growth…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Because of His abundant love for mankind, God extended His grace universally through the death of Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son: “For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Hebrews 1:1–2 contains numerous points of Biblical Truth: God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Because Satan is such a formidable foe, and we are so weak by ourselves, we must be well-armed. The armament which the Lord supplies is sufficient, both for protection and for…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] “Postmodernism” is the ascendant philosophy. To mention postmodernism implies its antecedent, modernism. Modernism attempts to explain all things by nature. It arose in 19th-century Germany, about the time Darwin published his…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Hell has fallen on “hard times.” It is rarely mentioned except in a context of cursing, swearing, or deprecation. Some claim to believe it exists but profess to know no one…
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Among the many attractive and ennobling traits of character urged upon servants of God and followers of Christ is compassion. Even those who possess no compassion admire and appreciate this trait…
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