Why Should I Attend Bible School?

Visits: 38[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] Every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening the congregation conducts Bible classes. Dedicated teachers prepare for their teaching duties each week. Lamentably, some do not take advantage of these learning opportunities….

Who Is Your Master?

Visits: 27[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…

Vacation Time—Andy McClish

Visits: 32[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…

Thoughts on Attendance

Visits: 30[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] There is more to being faithful to God than “church attendance.” However, does faithfulness require it (to please God, to grow spiritually, to be saved)? I am not asking if…

The Weak Weapons of Men

Visits: 31[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] In the contest with evil we must remember that, while we oppose men who serve Satan, our real foe is Satan: “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood,…

Stand Fast and Fight

Visits: 23[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The whole point of a soldier’s being well-armed is not for the parade ground, the reviewing stand, or mock maneuvers, but for the field of combat. The reason we are…

Sinful “Surnames”

Visits: 29[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] The idea for the following article is from one authored by Steve Gibson several years ago. At the time he wrote it, Steve was sound in his teaching and behavior….

“I Commend unto You Phoebe”

Visits: 30[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Paul wrote to the Roman brethren: “I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, . . . that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints…” (Rom. 16:1–2). I…

Godliness Pays!

Visits: 25[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] The Bible constantly exhorts its readers to godly living. The worldly-minded ridicule godliness, believing it only means hardship and deprivation. The Bible says it pays: “Godliness is profitable for all…

Doctrine and Unity

Visits: 33[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Romans 16:17 speaks concerning doctrine and unity: Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned:…