What About the Old Testament?—No. 5

Visits: 23[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-3 page.]             When Christ died on the cross, the authority of the Old Testament died with Him, being nailed to the cross (Col. 2:14). Christ is now our mediator of a better…

What About the Old Testament?—No. 4

Visits: 22[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-3 page.]             None who have lived since Jesus Christ died on the cross have been responsible for any of the commands of the Old Testament. That body of religious law was “nailed…

What About the Old Testament?—No. 3

Visits: 13[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-3 page.]             The Old Testament teaches that it was to be succeeded by a “new covenant” between God and His people (Jer. 31:31–34) and the New Testament teaches that it fulfills the…

What About the Old Testament?—No. 2

Visits: 19[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-3 page.]             Having seen that the Bible covers three distinct periods of time, marked off by God’s communicating with man through three distinct bodies of law, (the laws of Patriarchs, the Law…

What About the Old Testament?—No. 1

Visits: 17[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-3 page.]             Do we live under obligation to obey only the Old Testament, only the New Testament, or both? If we fail to understand the correct answer to this question, we will…

God’s Plan of Salvation

Visits: 29[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…

Notes on Musical Instruments in Worship

Visits: 29[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The most often asked question about our belief and practice concerns this issue. This subject relates to our acceptable worship of God. Some in the church now discount the importance…

What About Worship?

Visits: 25 [Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.]  Christian worship involves reverent acts of homage paid to God and/ or Jesus Christ. While the Old Testament is the inspired revelation of God, its authority perished with the…

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

Visits: 110[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…