Fellowship and Family Members

Views: 394[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Perhaps no Christian family has escaped seeing a family member depart from the faith, either in doctrine or behavior (or in both). When a husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, or sister falls…

“Hell at Last!”

Views: 116[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] To believe in Heaven is to believe in Hell, just as the Bible, especially the New Testament, depicts both of them. Concerning the unrighteous and the righteous, respectively, at The Judgment,…

When a Christian Sins…

Views: 124[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] The New Testament plainly teaches that we sometimes sin as Christians. To children of God, John wrote: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is…

Eternal Life Is in the Son—1 John 5:9–13

Views: 125[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction John gives the infidelity of the Gnostic heretics, which apparently constitutes the setting of John’s first epistle, one final broadside in 1 John 5. In verses 1–8, the apostle discussed some of the…

Jesus’ Blood Keeps on Cleansing

Views: 152[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Many years ago (when I was a very young preacher) I believed that unless one specifically named every sin he committed and specifically asked forgiveness of each one, as he became aware…

Calvinism—A Study of Election and Apostasy in the Writings of Paul

Views: 745[Note: This MS is available inlarger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Election is the immutable purpose of God, by which before the foundations of the earth were laid, He chose out of the whole human race—fallen by their own fault from their primeval integrity…

The Most Dangerous Sin?

Views: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] If you were asked to name the most dangerous sin, would it be murder, lying, adultery, slander, or perhaps some other? All of these are dangerous, both to the victim and the…

Ezekiel—Prophet of the Exile

Views: 163[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Four Old Testament prophets are called “major prophets,” or as some style them, “the four greater prophets:”1 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel. The lives of the last three overlap each other somewhat, but the work of…

John—Whom the Lord Called “None Greater”

Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Jesus gave unparalleled commendation to his kinsman, the prophet John: “Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist” (Mat. 11:11). Let us explore some possible…

Joseph’s Brothers—A Brief History

Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The title of this manuscript implies Joseph’s ascendency, his importance, his place of leadership, and his moral superiority among all of the sons of Jacob. Otherwise, the subject of this study…