“Come Forth, My People”—No. 10

Views: 67[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Some good brethren have become aware that their congregation, though once strong for the Truth, now practices the errors it once opposed and vice versa. However, brethren sometimes offer the following…

“Come Forth, My People”—No. 8

Views: 87[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Good people who are in bad churches need to hear the Lord’s warning in Revelation 18:4: “Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins,…

“Come Forth, My People”—No. 6

Views: 81[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The clear warning of the Lord to His people in figurative “Babylon” of the first century applies to the Lord’s people in any age who are part of corrupt or apostate…

Did We Understand Mr. Money?

Views: 102[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Dr. Royce Money, President of Abilene Christian University, delivered a speech at the annual ACU Lectureship, February 21,1993. Numerous reviews of and responses to it have since appeared. Reportedly, all of…

Christianity, A “First-Hand” Religion

Views: 81[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page. Sometimes a second-hand car gives good service; a second-hand religion never does. The religion of Christ must always be first-hand. I have said this and believed it for a long…

The “Open-Ended” Approach

Views: 87[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] It has become popular to take an “open-ended” approach to the Truth and the church. This has been the denominational approach to Scripture increasingly in direct proportion to the influence…

Be Faithful

Views: 2[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page. Christ does not require us to be rich, good-looking, multi-talented, socially prominent, or formally educated. There is one thing He requires of every one of His servants—Faithfulness. The Faith has been…

Strength for the Fight

Views: 93[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Just as God’s people in the Old Testament had their physical armies to wage war against the enemies of God, so His New Testament people are figuratively depicted as soldiers…

Spiritual Strength Is Available

Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Paul commanded, “Be strong in the Lord” (Eph. 6:10). The fact that we are ordered to be spiritually strengthened necessarily implies that it is possible for us to attain such…

One Thing Christ Hated

Views: 139[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] One cannot love something without hating its opposite. The Scriptures duly honor this axiom (Psa. 97:10; Mat. 6:24, et al.). It is not wrong to have strong feelings of hatred,…