“Who’s the Boss of This Church?”

Visits: 22[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] One of our little visitors at Vacation Bible School once asked this question. His teacher told him the Lord was. He didn’t agree. He said he thought that man who…

Some Commonly Misapplied Scriptures

Visits: 87[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction It should be obvious to all that many statements of Scripture are misapplied when we think of the almost innumerable errors held and promoted in the so-called “believing” world at large….

Religious Controversy

Visits: 25[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]       What about religious controversy? Is it proper to “argue” about religious questions? Some will always be around who thrive on argumentation and disputation, always spoiling for a fight with…

Where Do You “Tune Him Out”?

Visits: 27[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] When I was a small boy my family was very close to a Godly medical doctor in Liberty Hill, TX. This man had a hearing problem and wore a hearing…

Religious Authority

Visits: 46[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The challenges of recent years to authority in home, school, marketplace and military were bound to have their parallels in religion. The very foundations of pontifical authority in Roman Catholicism…

The Barren Fig Tree Cursed and Withered—Mark 11:12-25

Visits: 25[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] Introduction When Jesus cursed the fig tree on the way to Jerusalem from Bethany it appears that his principal intent was to demonstrate God’s judgment upon fruitlessness and hypocrisy, especially…

The “One Faith” of Ephesians 4:5

Visits: 90[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,…

The “New Hermeneutics”

Visits: 52[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction Hermeneutics is a word created from the name of Hermes, a god of Greek mythology, who served as interpreter for the other gods, especially Jupiter. Thus, hermeneutics refers to the science…

Biblical Faith—No. 2

Visits: 290[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]  Faith and belief are so much the basic response God requires of men that one or the other is often used as a synecdoche (i.e., a figure of speech in which…

Arguing With Jesus—#1

Visits: 9[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page. As strange as it seems, some who profess belief in Jesus Christ “argue” with Him by their doctrines. They do not consciously do so and will deny doing so, but they…