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…
Views: 90[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Short words are often “long” in their meaning (e.g., if, no, why? yes, et al.). Must is such a word. Jesus said, “We must work the works of him…
Views: 77 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Christian worship involves reverent acts of homage paid to God and/ or Jesus Christ. While the Old Testament is the inspired revelation of God, its authority perished with the…
Views: 68[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Is God a being of wrath to be feared or is he a benevolent person to be loved? What is the proper response of man to Jehovah: fear or love? Or…
Views: 162[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] In 2007 I wrote a manuscript for the Bellview Lectures, Pensacola, Florida, titled, “Building up the Church Through Singing.” In it I briefly mentioned that some of the…
Views: 89[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The cry for change was the main theme of William Jefferson Clinton and a press biased toward him in the 1992 presidential campaign. This cry was what swept him into office…
Views: 130[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a…
Views: 175[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she…
Views: 112[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Even inspired men have acknowledged that some passages of Scripture are “hard to be understood” (2 Pet. 3:16).1 Peter warned in this same verse that “the ignorant and unstedfast wrest” such…
Views: 160Introduction Paul wrote the exhortation contained in the title above to Archippus, a member of the Colossian Congregation. Ministry is from a cognate of the Greek word from which translators gave us deacon. It simply means a servant or minister, which term the New…
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