The Pattern Principle

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.] Is it important to strictly follow the New Testament’s teaching about the church? Most religious people have been led to believe it is not—otherwise there would not be thousands of distinctive denominations…

Notes on the Pentateuch—No. 1 (The Book of Genesis)

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             Genesis means “beginning.” It reveals the beginning of everything except God. Unless one understands and believes the message of Genesis, his understanding of and belief in the rest of the Bible…

When Hurting Helps

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–3 page.]             God is in the helping business. He has always acted in such a way as to help and benefit mankind. To be true to Him we must seek to be helpers…

The Retreat from Excellence

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–2 page.]             Without intending to be pessimistic, it appears to me that our world has suffered by the large scale “retreat from excellence” in recent years.  Those who are experts in the language…

Styles of Preaching

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.]             It doesn’t just seem like the preaching that comes from most pulpits across the land is different from what it was several years ago—it is different. This is the conclusion reached…

Christian Certainties — No. 1

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             We live in an age gripped by agnosticism. Agnosticism is the namby-pamby wishy-washy, spineless approach to the vital issues of life. In the realm of faith, it dictates a “wait and…

Do We Realize What We Have?—Andy McClish

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] One of the greatest advantages that a person can be given in life is to be trained from birth as a child of God. Surely those of us who have been…

Godliness

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Near the end of Peter’s inspired list of traits that characterize those who are “partakers of the Divine nature” and who have escaped a corrupt world, is “godliness” (2 Pet. 1:6)….

“Prophesy Ye Not…”—Micah 1:6

[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction             The first verse of Micah’s book is ripe with several important details. The name Micah means “Who is like Jehovah?” and is an abbreviated form of Michaiah, the name of the…

Malachi, Liberals, and Worship

[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction The fundamental Truth that since the cross none have been accountable to the Old Testament excuses no one from carefully studying it. The God Christians worship is the Creator God of…