God’s Responses to our Prayers

Visits: 40[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Perhaps there is no promise more clearly or consistently stated in Scripture than that God is attentive to the supplications of His faithful children: “The eyes of Jehovah are toward…

Deaver Doctrine—Where Does It End?

Visits: 20[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Solomon observed that there is “a time to keep silence, and a time to speak” (Ecc. 3:7). Perhaps all of us wish for the “wisdom of Solomon” to know just…

Dealing with Grief—Lavonne James McClish

Visits: 29[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Since I lost both my parents several years ago within five months of each other, I feel I have learned better how to sympathize than I could before with others…

A “Personal Relationship” with Jesus—Lavonne James McClish

Visits: 18[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction There is a sense in which we do have a personal relationship with Jesus. We are indebted to Him for our salvation, which is definitely on an individual basis. However,…

Death, Be Not Proud—Lavonne McClish

Visits: 21[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] In 1949, John Gunther wrote a very emotional novel entitled Death, Be Not Proud chronicling the illness (a brain tumor) and death of his young son. I like to hope that death will…

What Does the Lord’s Supper Commemorate?

Visits: 38[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] Habits can become so strong that they may lead us to do or say things without thinking about them. This can even happen to us relative to worship. We may…

Vacation Time—Andy McClish

Visits: 21[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] God has so structured our existence in this life that honest work is fulfilling, beneficial, honorable, and required of all mature, able-bodied people (Gen. 2:15; 2 The. 3:10–14). However, our…

“Unscriptural?”

Visits: 28[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] I was once handed the following quotation with the request that I comment on it: As I drove along the highway one Sunday morning, I came to a church house…

The Perfect Role Model

Visits: 17[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Either consciously or unconsciously, everyone has one or more role models whom he seeks to imitate. Jesus Christ alone has the right to be such because He lived a flawless…

Some “Why Nots” of Worship

Visits: 24[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The worship of Almighty God is both an exalted privilege and an immense responsibility. Failure to grasp these factors plunged the likes of Cain (Gen. 4), Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10),…