The Church

Views: 84[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]             Perhaps no institution on earth has been more misunderstood and abused than the church Jesus established. In a sense, of course, the church is not an institution but a group…

John Calvin and Calvinism—No. 1

Views: 90[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             The name of John Calvin is still nearly a household term although he has been dead over four centuries. As a religious reformer, he rode the crest of the sixteenth…

Jesus—Mere Man or God Incarnate?

Views: 80[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.] Was Jesus Christ merely a “good man” or was he more than man? The second century Gnostics and their modern counterparts (e.g., the Jehovah’s Witnesses) say he was merely a created…

Chapter 3, Verse 16

Views: 102[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles–1 page.]             Survey with me some of the important doctrines taught at “3:16” of various New Testament books. “And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water; and lo,…

New Testament Worship—The Lord’s Supper

Views: 90[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.]             Men build great buildings, towers, or statues as memorials to their fallen heroes. We garnish the graves of our loved ones with flowers, and, more permanently, tombstones. Jesus instituted a…

What Is Baptism? — No 7

Views: 87[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.]             Is immersion in water an act done by a Christian (one who is already saved) or is it an act done in order to become a Christian (be saved)?…

The Cross and the Church

Views: 95[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads page. Some think it possible to magnify the death of Christ, symbolized by His cross, while ignoring or minimizing His church. To attempt such is to overlook the vital relationship between the…

What Shall I Do Unto Jesus?

Views: 91 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] There is no more dramatic scene in all of history than the trial of Jesus in the court of Pontius Pilate. On one hand was a heathen governor who…

The Four Deaths of Humankind

Views: 69 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Our feline friends allegedly possess nine lives. Their human masters may indeed experience more than one kind of death. In fact, God’s Word reveals that each person may undergo…

Do We Realize What We Have?—Andy McClish

Views: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] One of the greatest advantages that a person can be given in life is to be trained from birth as a child of God. Surely those of us who have…