Spiritual Anticlimaxes

Views: 3[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction An anticlimax is a reversal of direction, thought, or status from the superior to the inferior or from the sublime to the ridiculous. In our days of modern, well-equipped, and…

When is a Sinner Saved?

Views: 3[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] There is no more important question for anyone to ponder because it involves one’s eternal destiny. One may be mistaken about his house, his job, his car, his health, mathematics, history,…

Higher “Christian” Education—What Should You Expect Your Child To Be Taught?

Views: 5[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In his helpful, but obsolete book on the history of “Christian Colleges” (1836–1949), the late M. Norvel Young astutely observed: Two fundamental dangers recognized by students of the Christian college movement…

How We Got Where We Are—A Half Century of Church History

Views: 17[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The Lord’s church today is not the same body it was fifty years ago. My grandfather (an elder for forty years in central Texas) or even my father (whose more than…

Has the New Testament Church Been Restored?

Views: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction It has become popular among numerous religious elitists to guffaw at the very suggestion that the original church has been restored to its pristine state in modern times. Such scoffers utter…

The Necessity of Knowing Church History, etc.

Views: 4             Seven hundred fifty years before Jesus’ birth, Hosea, on behalf of God, denounced Israel’s ignorance and its consequence: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest…

A Plea for the Plea

Views: 112[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] There is no more exciting and thrilling ideal to those who hunger and thirst for ultimate Truth than that of being a part of the church of the Bible. The incomparable…

Romans 16—a Commentary

Views: 259Romans 16 is one of the most completely personal sections to come from the pen of Paul or from that of any inspired writer. Of its twenty-seven verses eighteen of them relate to per­sonal commendations, greetings to those in Rome, or greetings being sent…