Kids, Avoid the Plague

Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Yesterday I wrote a note to a dear friend whose seventeen-year-old son was arrested last week. He was booked for possession and sale of marijuana. He is out on $5,000…

Symptoms and Causes

Views: 75[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The best doctors are those who, where possible, can diagnose the cause of an illness accurately and give proper medication or treatment for it, rather than merely treating the symptoms….

Things Which Make for Peace

Views: 101[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]             In Romans 14:19, Paul exhorts:  “So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.” Every local church needs these…

The Requirements of Scriptural Baptism

Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] For baptism to be what the Lord authorized and what the Scriptures teach, four requirements must be met. The right action is required. The consistent description of baptism in Scripture…

Sin: No Laughing Matter

Views: 88[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Our world thinks sin is hilarious. The formerly suggestive lines and scenes in movies and TV have given way to the explicit. The dirty joke and four-letter vocabulary are sources…

No Baptism—No Blood

Views: 84[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]             With few exceptions, religious bodies professing belief in Jesus as the Christ, the only begotten of the Father, treat baptism as inconsequential. Some ignore it as if it…

What If…?

Views: 116[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.]             It is growing ever more popular to ridicule the Bible and those who unapologetically accept it as the Word of the only true and living God. The ACLU…

The Church of the Bible—No. 4

Views: 69[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The Bible clearly reveals both the nature and work of the church, implying the significance of both. Unarguably, as to its nature, the church/ kingdom of Christ is a spiritual…