Views: 71[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In 1978 the Mormon Church decided to accept black men into its priesthood for the first time. This was a direct repudiation of previous Mormon doctrine and practice. By official…
Views: 70[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] It has finally come to this. A few years ago, a brother asserted that worship should be a party, a “celebration” (Marvin Phillips, speech at Nashville, TN “Jubilee,” July 1989)….
Views: 76[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In 1 Peter 5:5–6, we read the following significant exhortation: “Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another; for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace…
Views: 65 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Many modern religionists claim the power to perform the same miracles and signs as those recorded in the Bible. Claiming and doing are two different things. Anyone can make claims…
Views: 79[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The apostle Paul wrote: “Behold then the goodness and severity of God” (Rom. 11:22a). In context, Paul recounted that God was severe toward His chosen people, the Jews, because they…
Views: 64 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The God we worship in our assemblies is not a God of confusion, but One who wants everything done decently and in order (1 Cor. 14:33; 40). Perhaps with a…
Views: 73[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The Bible constantly exhorts its readers to godly living. The worldly-minded ridicule godliness, believing it only means hardship and deprivation. The Bible says it pays: “Godliness is profitable for all…
Views: 74 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In numerous statements the Bible proclaims God’s omniscience—He knows all things (Rom. 11:33–34; 1 John 3:20b; et al.). Despite these plain averments, the Bible also reveals some things God does…
Views: 84 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] “There is nothing too hard for thee,” Jeremiah wrote of God (32: 17). Paul wrote of “…the exceeding greatness of his power” (Eph. 1:19). The Bible abounds with claims of…
Views: 78Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] …because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them. For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are…
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