Reflections on the “Restoration Summit”

Views: 91 [Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Manuscripts page.]   On August 7-9, 1984, a meeting billed as a “Restoration Summit” was conducted at Joplin, Missouri. The “Summit” was first conceived and suggested by brother Alan Cloyd of Nashville, Tennessee, in…

How Does the Holy Spirit Lead?

Views: 8 [Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] One is not a child of God, a Christian, unless he is led by the Spirit: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are  sons…

The “New Hermeneutics”

Views: 104[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction Hermeneutics is a word created from the name of Hermes, a god of Greek mythology, who served as interpreter for the other gods, especially Jupiter. Thus, hermeneutics refers to the science…

Noah, the “Legalist” 

Views: 123[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] When theological liberals want to cast the strongest possible aspersion on those who still believe God said what He means and means what He says in the Bible, they call…

Preparing for Persecution

Views: 106[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] I excerpted the quoted material below from my MS for the 17th Annual Denton Lectures (1998), conducted by the old Pearl St. church here in Denton. Please keep this date…

Premillennialism and Crossroadsism—A Refutation from Acts 1–11

Views: 98[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Premillennialism What is premillennialism? The word premillennial means “pertaining to or believing in some event that will occur before a millennium.” A millennium is a period of 1,000 years, which in the…

Joshua, the Conqueror of Canaan

Views: 105[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction The only reason Joshua was not the greatest man of his time is because he was contemporary with Moses. None would question that he and Moses were the two principal characters…

Instrumental Music—Aid or Addition?

Views: 149[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction The fuller reading of the title of this manuscript would be, “Is Instrumental Music an Aid or an Addition to the Singing prescribed by the New Testament in Christian Worship?” By…

God’s Commission to Jeremiah—Jeremiah 1:4–10

Views: 109[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Few Old Testament characters equal and none surpass the prophet Jeremiah’s devotion to Jehovah God (McClish, 41–60). His refusal to compromise the message God commissioned him to preach to Jerusalem’s stiff-necked…

Ezra, A Model for Every Servant of God—Ezra 7:1-10

Views: 117[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Ezra lived during Judah’s period of captivity in Babylon in the fifth century B.C. He led a group of Jews back to Judea from their land of captivity in about 457…