The Church of Christ

Visits: 28[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]             If the church Christ built is to exist in any age, there are certain principles to which men must be committed. As surely as men abandon any of these…

Instrumental Music—Aid or Addition?

Visits: 69[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction The fuller reading of the title of this manuscript would be, “Is Instrumental Music an Aid or an Addition to the Singing prescribed by the New Testament in Christian Worship?” By…

Reviewing Some Fundamental Principles

Visits: 24[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction The church as God planned it and as Christ built it is revealed in only one place: the New Testament. It is a Divine institution. It was no mere man—not even…

What Is the Work of the Church?

Visits: 26[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Several years ago, a family visited the Lord’s day morning assembly where I preached. In conversation with them afterward they asked some questions: “What sort of program do you have…

On “Evolving Standards”

Visits: 18[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction The Associated Press began a news story a few years ago as follows: The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday [March 1, 2005] that the Constitution forbids the execution of killers who…

Baptism—What Does the Bible Teach?

Visits: 23[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction In Mark 16:16 Jesus made one of the most explicit statements in the New Testament concerning baptism: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall…

Whose Shall They Be?

Visits: 18[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] God pronounced judgment on the foolish farmer who had stockpiled his harvests with only one aim—selfish indulgence. In one breath God told him he would die that night and asked…

“What Is the Biblical Name of the Universal Church?”

Visits: 12[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] The title above is one of several questions a visitor to my Website, TheScripturecache.com, submitted on December 28, 2017. His reading my MS, “The Church of Christ Is Not a…

Was Jesus Mistaken?

Visits: 21[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Ten centuries before Jesus’ birth, the prophet Nathan, on behalf of Jehovah, told David that He would set one of David’s seed upon his throne in an eternal kingdom (2 Sam….

The New Testament Church

Visits: 23[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] If the church as God planned it and Christ built it is to exist in any age, there are certain principles to which men must be committed. As surely as…