Murmuring at Marah

Views: 82[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Exodus 15:22–26 gives the account of Israel’s murmuring at the bitter waters of Marah. At this very beginning part of their journey from the Red Sea toward Canaan, their water supplies…

Lessons from Josiah the Restorer King

Views: 94[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Josiah, the sixteenth king of Judah after Israel divided, began to reign at the extremely young age of eight years. His father and grandfather before him were wicked and idolatrous,…

“Balanced” Preaching

Views: 39[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             The quality of balance lends grace, order, and beauty almost to anything. The work of preaching the Gospel is no exception. God’s Word contains descriptions of the balance with which…

A Good Minister

Views: 79[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.]  In 1 Timothy 4:6, Paul stated a qualification of Timothy’s being “a good minister of Christ Jesus”: If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be…

Morals in an Immoral Age

Views: 184[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction It is no secret to those of us who have lived a few decades that our nation has suffered a catastrophic decline in moral principle and behavior over this span. Those…

“Liberalism” and “Anti-ism”—Two Erroneous Extremes

Views: 237[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction History reveals that men are susceptible to extremes in almost every arena of thought and behavior. This is no more clearly demonstrable than in the field of religion. A classic illustration…

Religion by Majority

Views: 109[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] A Pew Poll of 35,000 Americans, released in June 2008, revealed some interesting statistics about religious beliefs. More than half (57%) of “evangelicals” (strong in their belief in the Bible and in…

First or Twenty-first?

Views: 122[Note: This MS is available ilarger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Jesus promised to build His church, which He identified as his spiritual kingdom (Mat. 16:18–19; John 18:36). Gabriel told Mary that Jesus, the Son she would conceive of the Holy Spirit, would…

Elders and Roots of Apostasy—Acts 20:28–30

Views: 116[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction As all readers surely know, there have been many waves or cycles of apostasy since the establishment of the church, and each of these has placed more and more distance between man and…

When a Christian Sins…

Views: 90[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3 page.] The New Testament plainly teaches that we sometimes sin as Christians. To children of God, John wrote: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is…