[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 of…
[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 that…
[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 death of…
[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 is…
[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 songs…
[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 more…
[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 Spirit:…
[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 had…
[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 passages…
Introduction 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 Testament…
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