A Review of Alvin Jennings’ 3 Rs of Urban Church Growth

Views: 120[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction  In 1981, a brother in Christ, Alvin Jennings, owner of Star Bible Publications, Inc., wrote and published a book titled, 3 R’s of Urban Church Growth. This book raised many eyebrows,…

Will God Change His Mind?

Views: 95[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] God has “changed His mind” on occasion (e.g., Exo. 32:7–14; Num. 14:11–20). If God never “changes His mind” about anything Deism is justified, and many of our prayers are vain. Often…

The Truth About Tradition

Views: 98[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Is everything that we call “tradition” bad, dangerous, or even prohibited? Is there such a thing as “good” or even “mandatory” tradition? This word occurs thirteen times in the New…

The Man to Whom the Lord Will Not Reckon Sin

Views: 133[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The title of this chapter is taken from a declaration by Paul in Romans 4:6–8: Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from…

Another Response on Humanism.

Views: 122[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] How strange it is that those who pride themselves in being most liberal toward and tolerant of every philosophy, lifestyle, and religion can be exceedingly intolerant toward those whom they judge to…

Not or Now?

Views: 111[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Changing a single letter of a word can create a statement that directly contradicts the writer’s intended expression. To misspell not as now well illustrates this fact. It is bad enough to unwittingly make…

Eternal Life Is in the Son—1 John 5:9–13

Views: 123[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction John gives the infidelity of the Gnostic heretics, which apparently constitutes the setting of John’s first epistle, one final broadside in 1 John 5. In verses 1–8, the apostle discussed some of the…

Preaching on Church History

Views: 145[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The older I get and the more I observe what some brethren are doing and saying, the more convinced I become that the Lord’s people do not know much about church history….

Calvinism—A Study of Election and Apostasy in the Writings of Paul

Views: 740[Note: This MS is available inlarger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Election is the immutable purpose of God, by which before the foundations of the earth were laid, He chose out of the whole human race—fallen by their own fault from their primeval integrity…

Now or Not?

Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] A pesky stumblingblock to proofreaders is catching the “correct error”—the word that is spelled correctly, but is the wrong word. Failure to note these flaws can result in everything from nonsense to saying the…