Responsibilities of Dedicated Parents

Views: 83[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.]   In the normal development of family life there comes a time when the second generation leaves the first generation to establish a new family from which succeeding generations spring forth….

When Hurting Helps

Views: 98[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…

A Mighty Blow for Discipline

Views: 71[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             I confess to being a football addict. I like to watch it, whether pee-wees or professionals are playing. New Year’s Day is always eagerly awaited by this scribe, because…

Did Jesus Have Long Hair?

Views: 89[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]             It is a common misconception that Jesus wore shoulder-length hair. Many have used this myth to justify long hair on males today. What does history reveal about this matter?…

Do We Realize What We Have?

Views: 91[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…

Temptation

Views: 79[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]             The aim of our arch-Adversary from the beginning has been to persuade us to abandon God’s perfect standard of behavior to walk in his unprincipled paths. Temptation describes the tool…

Corinth, the Carnal Church

Views: 98[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In the 1st century, Corinth was a cosmopolitan city of Greeks, Romans and Jews, numbering about 500,000, a large percentage of which were slaves. On the lower appendage of Greece…

Elders and the Unruly

Views: 99[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] There are three key passages of Scripture that place the responsibility of local church discipline upon the elders. In Acts 20:28–31 Paul tells elders to take heed to the flock,…

Some “What Ifs” to Consider

Views: 75[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] What if the church where you worship met every day of the week instead of only two days a week? What if the sermon lasted four or five hours on…

For Parents of Teenagers

Views: 82[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] A few years ago, I wrote some lines on this subject prefaced by a confession of feeling inadequate since I had no children who were teenagers at that time. I also…