Christian “Haters”

Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The title above is admittedly ambiguous. It can mean “Christians who express hatred,” or it can mean “those who hate Christianity.” The latter meaning describes a growing “norm” of attitude…

The “Twin Parables”—The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price—Matthew 13:44–46

Views: 30[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath,…

Selective Postmodernism

Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] Postmodernism is the buzzword for today’s sophisticates who purport to have transcended the outmoded standards that have well served mankind from the beginning and Western Civilization for centuries. It has adversely…

The Scope of the Covenants —Is Christ’s New Covenant Only for Christians?

Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In the early 1950s W. Carl Ketcherside and Leroy Garrett were disturbing churches with their hobby that drew a distinction between gospel and doctrine. They alleged that only the “gospel” of…

Destructible Deities

Views: 4[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]             When a Buddhist temple burned in a Texas city, the image of Buddha, their object of worship, melted. While none should rejoice in the property loss our fellow-citizens sustained,…

Good People in Bad Churches

Views: 13[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Rampant liberalism in churches of Christ has produced rampant apostasy over the past five decades. Hundreds of congregations that were at their inception strong in the Truth have become unrecognizable…

America’s Moral Decay

Views: 4Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Fifty years ago, lasciviousness, adultery, and fornication, were almost universally deemed reprehensible; they hardly raise an eyebrow anymore. New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, was forced to resign in 2008 for…

The Church’s Unity and Undenominational Character

Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction From his earliest knowledge that God planned the church, Satan has despised the very concept of it and everything pertaining to it. His first plan of attack was to do all…

A Virtuous Atheist

Views: 75[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             Consider this real case: The young man was an avowed atheist. He described himself as “capable of pristine thought and speech,… moral, upstanding, conscientious, ethical,…

Humanism—Enemy Number One

Views: 150[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction I am a threat that is even more sinister and dangerous to mankind than political terrorism. The grave danger I pose lies partly in the fact that most people do not recognize…