The Ideal Home—No. 2
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.] A house is where a family lives. A home is how a family lives. A home begins with a man and a woman who become husband and wife. What any home…
Category: Self-examination/self discipline
The Curse of Profanity
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The New Testament Greek word translated profane in our English versions comes from the Greek word for threshold. A threshold is accessible to all, thus those who pass over it are not…
Our Cunning Foe
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] While our foe in the great spiritual warfare of life fully utilizes men and women who yield themselves to his service, our real battle is not with them, but with…
When the Heart Is Missing
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] When we study the sad history of the cyclical apostasies of the descendants of Jacob, it is difficult not to be harshly critical of their folly. God never did before or ever…
What Is a “Change Agent”?
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction The term, change agent, has been in use at least since 1947 in social psychology circles in reference to those whose task it is to facilitate change in organizations. Lynn Anderson…
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree—Luke 13:6–9
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none. And he said unto the vinedresser,…
Elders—Their Crucial Role
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] When the Lord Jesus returned to the Father, He first entrusted the church to the apostles (Mat. 16:18–19; John 14:16–18), who had the responsibility of receiving the revealed Word (John 16:13) and…
Christian Women Are Individual—Lavonne James McClish
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] We are unique. Science is only now learning just how unique. The discovery of DNA, which contains all of the genes—the genetic code—that make up a human being, has brought about amazing…
Sounds Like Some of Us
[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi, wrote a book titled, Who Needs God? According to reviewer, Don Feder, (a syndicated columnist) in Kushner’s view of deity and religion, “absolutely no one.” The…
Godliness Pays!
[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 things…”…
