Rebellion Against Authority

Views: 102[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Articles 2  page.]             The challenges of recent decades to authority in home, school, marketplace, and military were bound to have their parallels in religion. The very foundation of pontifical authority in Roman…

God’s Plan of Salvation

Views: 81[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             If there is one thing that one must learn in life, it is God’s plan of salvation. Those who never obey the Gospel and do not come to know God…

A Time To Be Hardheaded

Views: 104[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The call and commission of Ezekiel to be the prophet of God among the exiled Jews in Babylon is interesting. God said to the prophet: Behold, I have made thy…

Back to the Bible

Views: 77[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             The Bible has been translated into 1,250 languages and dialects, making it available to about 95% of the world’s population. It is the best-distributed book in the world with…

How to Preserve Your Bible

Views: 69[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.] Jesus promised, “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away” (Luke 21:33). Surely, every Christian wants to see the Bible preserved. I speak not of its…

Spiritual Strength Is Available

Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Paul commanded, “Be strong in the Lord” (Eph. 6:10). The fact that we are ordered to be spiritually strengthened necessarily implies that it is possible for us to attain such…

The Unique Book

Views: 87[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.]             Unique means one of a kind, having no like or equal, incomparable. These terms accurately describe the Bible. Consider some of the characteristics that make it unique: It alone…

Hagar: The Bondwoman Who Was Cast Out—Lavonne J. McClish

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…

The Same Subjects, but New Applications

Views: 86[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Occasionally I review some of the sermon material I preached as a young man several decades ago (and am still preaching). I am often impressed with a striking phenomenon: Several…