Visits: 33[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The term woe is found numerous times in both Testaments. It is a favorite expression of the prophets to announce God’s judgment upon nations, cities, or individuals. Our Lord frequently used…
Visits: 102Introduction Paul wrote the exhortation contained in the title above to Archippus, a member of the Colossian Congregation. Ministry is from a cognate of the Greek word from which translators gave us deacon. It simply means a servant or minister, which term the New…
Visits: 57[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] God has “changed His mind” on occasion (e.g., Exo. 32:7–14; Num. 14:11–20). If God never “changes His mind” about anything Deism is justified, and many of our prayers are vain. Often…
Visits: 40[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Several years ago, a family visited the Lord’s day morning assembly where I preached. In conversation with them afterward they asked some questions: “What sort of program do you have…
Visits: 66[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none. And he said unto the…
Visits: 49[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,…
Visits: 28[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Are Gospel meeting series still worth the time, money, and effort they require? Many point to the decline in attendance, when compared with such efforts prior to the 1960s, and…
Visits: 31[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] We must clearly decide whom we will serve. Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he…
Visits: 31[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Three times in Paul’s great passage on the Christian “soldier” (Eph. 6:10–17) he tells us the source of all spiritual strength. We are to be “strong in the Lord and…
Visits: 26[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] In worship, organization, work, and other features, the faithful churches of Christ in the first century and in the twenty-first century are identical. This is that for which those who…
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