A Candidate’s Connections

Views: 82[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] PLEASE NOTE: This article was written prior to the Presidential Election of 1984.             It is surely a legitimate concern of Christians to be aware of and concerned with the convictions…

Reflections on the “Restoration Summit”

Views: 91 [Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Manuscripts page.]   On August 7-9, 1984, a meeting billed as a “Restoration Summit” was conducted at Joplin, Missouri. The “Summit” was first conceived and suggested by brother Alan Cloyd of Nashville, Tennessee, in…

Is Matthew 19:3–12 Really So Hard to Understand?

Views: 104[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said, Have…

“Whatsoever a Man Soweth…”

Views: 101[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] A bountiful, but bitter harvest of dishonor, immorality, profanity, drug/drink addiction, and cold secularism have become commonplace in our beautiful America. These behaviors extend from the powerless and poor through…

The Myth of Relativism

Views: 70[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Is 7 the sum of 2+2? Is “up” above us or below us? Does the law of gravity operate only in certain cultures? Is the rape of a seven-year-old child…