The Life that Frees From Anxiety

Views: 128[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Often our lives are like a two-sided coin.  The positive side is stamped with emotions like contentment, peace of mind, happiness, and joy. The opposite, negative side contains stress, anxiety, worry,…

Practical Principles of Right Living—No. 1

Views: 246[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction             When we speak of “morals,” “morality,” “mores,” and that which is “moral,” what do we mean? In modern usage, the adjective, moral (e.g., moral behavior, moral values, moral…

What About the Old Testament?—No. 1

Views: 79[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-3 page.]             Do we live under obligation to obey only the Old Testament, only the New Testament, or both? If we fail to understand the correct answer to this question, we will…

The Place of Sincerity in Religion—No. 3

Views: 78[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]             God certainly requires us to be sincere in our practice of religion. Insincerity and hypocrisy are intolerable to God (Mat. 6:1–18); 23:4–5; 24:51, etc). However, the popular phrase concerning religion,…

The Place of Sincerity in Religion—No. 2

Views: 95[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]             God despises hypocrisy, which is the equivalent of insincerity (Mat. 24:51). But does He require anything more than sincerity? What about the familiar phrase: “It makes no difference what you…

The Place of Sincerity in Religion—No. 1

Views: 84[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.   There are three positions taken on this subject: Some people believe sincerity is all important as indicated by the familiar statement, “It makes no difference what you believe as long…

The Church—No. 3 (How it Worships)

Views: 89[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]             The basic principles governing acceptable worship are found in John 4:24: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The only proper object…

The Deity of Jesus Christ—No. 3

Views: 82[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]             The Bible not only records the claims Jesus and the apostles made concerning His Deity. It also furnishes abundant evidence to support the claims. The prophecies (exceeding 300) that are…

The Deity of Jesus Christ—No. 1

Views: 101[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]             Was Jesus Christ merely a “good man” or was He more than man? The second century Gnostics and their modern counterparts (i.e., the Jehovah’s Witness sect, the Unitarians, etc.) say…

The Church

Views: 84[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]             Perhaps no institution on earth has been more misunderstood and abused than the church Jesus established. In a sense, of course, the church is not an institution but a group…