On “Evolving Standards”

Visits: 17[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…

Is Matthew 19:3–12 Really So Hard to Understand?

Visits: 31[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said, Have…

Building up the Church Through the Home—Ephesians 5:22–6:4

Visits: 81[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church,…

A Perpetual Pitfall of Preachers

Visits: 31[Note:  This MS is available in a larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction I made my first miserable attempt at preaching a Gospel sermon in July 1954 to a Sunday evening assembly of the old Fourth and Bannock Streets Church in Boise,…

“Spiritual Adultery”?

Visits: 20[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] Just when I think I have “heard it all,” something else comes along to prove that I had not. This is particularly true of the subject of marriage, divorce, and…

Is There a Second “Exception” for Divorce and Remarriage?

Visits: 34[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Many grievously misunderstand the nature of revelation/inspiration. Some aver that only the words of Jesus (those in red letters in some Bibles) are authoritative, and the remainder of the writers…

Do Numbers Equal Strength?  

Visits: 18[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] “Yes” and “No.” The Bible urges Christians to grow and mature in the faith and to thereby become strong (Eph. 6:10, et al.). What God desires for His individual saints,…

“Relationship, Not Religion”

Visits: 44[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] Some time ago a denomination in Dallas, Texas, advertised its aim as “relationship, not religion.” When I read it, I thought, “At last, truth in advertising!” Actually, most of the religious…

What is Appropriate in Preaching?

Visits: 57[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction To the Corinthians Paul wrote: “For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach…

“Liberalism” and “Anti-ism”—Two Erroneous Extremes

Visits: 189[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction History reveals that men are susceptible to extremes in almost every arena of thought and behavior. This is no more clearly demonstrable than in the field of religion. A classic illustration…