What Is Baptism? — No. 2

Visits: 26[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.]             It is our premise that the New Testament is God’s verbally inspired Word and that what it teaches on any subject is God’s Will. This is true of the…

Christian Certainties — No. 5

Visits: 28[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]             In a world that is constantly being bombarded with doubt and despair, there is a desperate need for some things that are solid and certain. More than anyone else in…

Christian Certainties — No. 4

Visits: 26[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             Despite the negative, skeptical philosophies that seem to control the minds of most of mankind, there are yet some matters that are certain and sure. Puny man will never overthrow…

Christian Certainties — No. 2

Visits: 32[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]             In an age of doubt, cynicism, and agnosticism, the human heart cries out for something solid, certain, and sure. We live in such an age, and it is appropriate…

Christian Certainties — No. 1

Visits: 27[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             We live in an age gripped by agnosticism. Agnosticism is the namby-pamby wishy-washy, spineless approach to the vital issues of life. In the realm of faith, it dictates a “wait…

Rebellion Against Authority

Visits: 34[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Articles 2  page.]             The challenges of recent decades to authority in home, school, marketplace, and military were bound to have their parallels in religion. The very foundation of pontifical authority in Roman…

Unity in (Spite of) Diversity

Visits: 37[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Was a renewed and intensified “unity” initiative with the Independent Christian Church (ICC) underway? Abilene Christian University had an ICC preacher on its lectureship a few years earlier. The Tulsa…

Jeremiah—God’s Humble, Faithful Prophet

Visits: 109[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction To learn the way God measures preachers and preaching we need to return repeatedly to the faithful prophets as our models. There is no nobler model than Jeremiah in the…

Does God Really Answer Prayer?

Visits: 52[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Is everything that happens to each one of us determined by the positions of the heavenly bodies (Astrology)? Is everything that occurs to us predetermined, foreordained by God (Determinism, Calvinism)? Is…

“It Is Finished”

Visits: 23[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Following are some personal observations on John 19:23–52: What a mystery to men that God could see hundreds of years down the stream of time and know what men were…