Visits: 20[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] Once when I was shopping in one of our local lumber yards, I noticed a sign which read: 81% OF YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL BE LOST TEN YEARS FROM NOW Under…
Visits: 31[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads page.] I have long observed that major movements in the world will sooner or later have their effect upon religion. Numerous examples exist: As the divorce rate in society has risen, we…
Visits: 40[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page. The two elements involved in success in the Lord’s work are seen in the following statement from Paul, the apostle: Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in…
Visits: 24[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Occasionally some member of the church remarks, “Nobody ever visits me!” It is almost always a complaint, sometimes uttered in bitterness. I have heard people say it almost as if they…
Visits: 21[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Sometimes the complaint is registered that “the church emphasizes money too much.” A preacher friend once told me of hearing this complaint from a family where he preached. The circumstances behind…
Visits: 42[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] In Romans 14:19, Paul exhorts: “So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.” Every local church needs these…
Visits: 25[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Paul warned, “Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer” (1 Cor. 10:10). Again, he ordered, “Do, all things without murmurings and questionings” (Phi. 2:14)….
Visits: 22[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The passing of time has a great way of putting things in true perspective. A president may be hated and cursed by his contemporaries, but his administration may be given a…
Visits: 26[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The last several years have seen our nation move increasingly closer to becoming a “welfare state.” Few are those who object to helping those who truly need help and are…
Visits: 40[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] This passage has long been problematical. Perhaps the biggest problem revolves around what seems to be an arbitrary age limit governing widows who can be “enrolled” (vs. 9), and, as…
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