Declaring War on the Fellowship of the Lord’s Church

Views: 146[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction  Satan and all of his minions outside the church have always opposed it. He did his best to prevent the Lord from establishing the church in the first place. Although he…

Lessons from Josiah the Restorer King

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,…

Cleansing the Temple

Views: 96[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Jesus twice “cleansed” the temple (actually the court of the temple) in Jerusalem by driving the merchants and moneychangers from it. The first time was near the beginning of His…

“Liberalism” and “Anti-ism”—Two Erroneous Extremes

Views: 278[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction History reveals that men are susceptible to extremes in almost every arena of thought and behavior. This is no more clearly demonstrable than in the field of religion. A classic illustration…

Religion by Majority

Views: 144[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] A Pew Poll of 35,000 Americans, released in June 2008, revealed some interesting statistics about religious beliefs. More than half (57%) of “evangelicals” (strong in their belief in the Bible and in…

Eternal Life Is in the Son—1 John 5:9–13

Views: 125[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction John gives the infidelity of the Gnostic heretics, which apparently constitutes the setting of John’s first epistle, one final broadside in 1 John 5. In verses 1–8, the apostle discussed some of the…

Preaching on Church History

Views: 145[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The older I get and the more I observe what some brethren are doing and saying, the more convinced I become that the Lord’s people do not know much about church history….

Calvinism—A Study of Election and Apostasy in the Writings of Paul

Views: 745[Note: This MS is available inlarger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Election is the immutable purpose of God, by which before the foundations of the earth were laid, He chose out of the whole human race—fallen by their own fault from their primeval integrity…

Now or Not?

Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] A pesky stumblingblock to proofreaders is catching the “correct error”—the word that is spelled correctly, but is the wrong word. Failure to note these flaws can result in everything from nonsense to saying the…

“Love Letter” or Law?

Views: 6[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Is the New Testament merely a collection of “love letters” containing nothing more than polite suggestions of behavior? None can deny that this portion of the Bible reveals the incomparable (and all but…