You and Responsibility

Views: 51[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] Recently I came across a statement containing the following thought: “A person who shoulders his responsibilities has little room left for chips.” There is so much truth in the sentence…

Values of a Gospel Meeting

Views: 50[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Gospel meeting time will be here very soon. Some people have discounted such efforts by saying that they don’t hold any value in our age. Admittedly, there are more things that…

“My Kind of ‘Summit’”

Views: 72[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] In August, 1984 a meeting styled “The Restoration Summit” was held in Joplin, Missouri. It was attended by about 50 each from the Independent Christian Church and the churches of…

On Elders and Preachers

Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Much could and should be said on what preachers owe elders. Many sad problems have been precipitated by unfaithful, unappreciative, and sometimes unscrupulous preachers. Such men give every faithful and…

The Career Woman

Views: 70[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Introduction “Career” connotes a type of work or a profession for which one prepares, and which one pursues. The term usually implies a job or profession outside of the home….

“Come Forth, My People”—No. 10

Views: 61[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Some good brethren have become aware that their congregation, though once strong for the Truth, now practices the errors it once opposed and vice versa. However, brethren sometimes offer the following…

“Come Forth, My People”—No. 8

Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Good people who are in bad churches need to hear the Lord’s warning in Revelation 18:4: “Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins,…

“Come Forth, My People”—No. 6

Views: 77[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The clear warning of the Lord to His people in figurative “Babylon” of the first century applies to the Lord’s people in any age who are part of corrupt or apostate…

A Disturbing Trend

Views: 102[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Am I just imagining things, or is there a trend among members of the Body of Christ to treat all of the church’s worship assemblies as optional anymore? If there is,…