Why One Should Be a Christian

Visits: 39[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] Some people are not Christians because they’re not willing to count the cost and pay the price. Some have too much pride to humbly obey the Word of Christ. Some…

What is a Saint?

Visits: 35[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] A “saint” to most people implies someone who has attained moral excellence, if not perfection. In the Roman Catholic frame of reference, a “Saint” is someone who lived long ago and…

Did We Understand Mr. Money?

Visits: 49[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Dr. Royce Money, President of Abilene Christian University, delivered a speech at the annual ACU Lectureship, February 21,1993. Numerous reviews of and responses to it have since appeared. Reportedly, all of…

Christianity Evolved?

Visits: 31[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In a Bible class I attended several months ago, we were discussing some of the events that occurred in the period between the Testaments. This period of about four centuries…

Who’s Murdering Creativity?

Visits: 30[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] The editor of one of the newer brotherhood journals wrote the following terse paragraph in his editorial some time ago: Creativity, murdered by dogmatism, leaves behind a burned out, disillusioned…

The Requirements of Scriptural Baptism

Visits: 24[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2  page.] For baptism to be what the Lord authorized and what the Scriptures teach, four requirements must be met. The right action is required. The consistent description of baptism in Scripture…

Where Do You “Tune Him Out”?

Visits: 31[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…

Jesus Called Himself “The King of Kings and Lord of Lords”

Visits: 28[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In John’s vision of the victorious Christ the Lord had “… on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS” (Rev. 19:16). John…

The “New Hermeneutics”

Visits: 54[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: 292[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…