Views: 86[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] I was once handed the following quotation with the request that I comment on it: As I drove along the highway one Sunday morning, I came to a church house…
Views: 79[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth” (John 18:38)? Many today echo his question. Many have been persuaded to believe there are no absolutes, but that all principles and values…
Views: 71[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In the 1988 debate between Alan Highers and Given O. Blakely of the Independent Christian Church, Mr. Blakely attempted to justify the use of mechanical instruments of music in worship by…
Views: 72[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…
Views: 134[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The title of this chapter is taken from a declaration by Paul in Romans 4:6–8: Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from…
Views: 119[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction One can hardly imagine any subject in religion but that men have capitulated the Biblical teaching on it. The mere mention of the inspiration of the Bible, the authority of Scripture,…
Views: 106[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Exodus 15:22–26 gives the account of Israel’s murmuring at the bitter waters of Marah. At this very beginning part of their journey from the Red Sea toward Canaan, their water supplies…
Views: 120[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Josiah, the sixteenth king of Judah after Israel divided, began to reign at the extremely young age of eight years. His father and grandfather before him were wicked and idolatrous,…
Views: 96[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page. The winter season gives us vivid reminders of the need for heat. Without it we would freeze. The approaching darkness each evening reminds us of the need for light….
Views: 125[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–1 page.] Denominationalism refers to a “denominational or sectarian spirit or policy; the tendency to divide into denominations or sects” (Random House College Dictionary). In religion, the term refers to the multitude (some…
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