Joseph’s Brothers—A Brief History

Visits: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The title of this manuscript implies Joseph’s ascendency, his importance, his place of leadership, and his moral superiority among all of the sons of Jacob. Otherwise, the subject of this study…

Elders—Must All Have All the Qualifications?

Visits: 58[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] For the primitive church to be restored we must be concerned with restoring every feature of it as it appears on the pages of the New Testament. However, there are…

“It Is Too Much…”

Visits: 6[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]  Ten centuries before Christ, ten of the twelve tribes of Israel revolted at the promised harsh measures of Rehoboam, Solomon’s son and successor. Jeroboam was the first king of this…

Darwinism and Morality

Visits: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page. Until around the 1960s in America, lasciviousness, adultery, and fornication were almost universally deemed reprehensible. Divorce was shameful, pornography was underground, and homosexuality was illegal. These elements are now on…

“Enemies of the Cross”

Visits: 8[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In the mildest of his epistles (in terms of rebuke and correction), the apostle Paul nonetheless warned the Philippian saints of “enemies of the cross of Christ” (3:18–19), which he…

The “Easter” Season—from God or Man?

Visits: 10[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The “Easter” season, involves much more than “Easter Sunday.” It begins with… “Mardi Gras” (French for “Fat Tuesday,” also called “Shrove Tuesday”), referring to the day before the beginning of…

Love—A Fruit of the Spirit

Visits: 9[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction             Undiscerning and unscrupulous men have “wordnapped,” redefined, misused, and abused several rich and beautiful Biblical words. Among them are grace, faith, miracle, elect, and predestined. Love, which Paul names a…

Abortion—A Continuing Abomination

Visits: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction The Pharaoh of Moses’ time ordered that every male Hebrew was to be slain at birth (Exo. 1:16, 22). He is remembered in Scripture (and by all right-thinking men) as…

Man, Woman, and Marriage

Visits: 11[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] One either believes the Bible to be God’s revelation of Himself to men, or one does not. God does not (and no man can) force anyone to accept the Bible as such….

Burger King and God

Visits: 11[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             The Burger King fast food chain has long used the catchy slogan, “Have it your way”—build it like you want it. BK may have come up with the slogan, but…