Bible Articles

By WAYNE JACKSON In his sermon on the day of Pentecost, Peter declared: “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21). In view of this statement, folks sometimes ask: Why do members of the church of Christ insist that baptism is a requirement for... Read More →

By WAYNE JACKSON, ChristianCourier.com ”Why do some insist that Christians are ‘under law’ today? We are not under law, but grace. The law came by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus (Jn. 1:17).” We must respectfully point out that the question recorded above... Read More →

By Jimmy R. Mickells  The word “outreach” is an expression that has been coined in recent years. If I understand what is meant by its use, it means an effort by a local church to reach out to those that are lost to save them from sin. That certainly is the work of the... Read More →

By Stan Mitchell  The boisterous crowd fell silent.  They had gathered in the summer of 1536 to witness an execution, a man burned at the stake.  He was just a little over 40 years old, an Oxford scholar, and a felon facing the death penalty.  So what had he done? All eyes... Read More →

By Jimmy R. Mickells We often encounter or hear of people who simply do not believe that baptism is a part of God’s plan to save man. They usually say that it is a good thing to do, Jesus was baptized you know. It is certainly a good thing to do because the Bible tells us to be... Read More →

By Ben May God has a lot to say about fools and foolishness. In fact, some form of the word “fool” is used 189 times in the King James Version of the Bible. In our society, we have several expressions about being a fool. One of them is “I’m nobodies... Read More →

By Greg Gwin in Biblical Insights, Vol. 5, No. 7, July, 2005 God never instructed alien sinners to pray for forgiveness of sins.Many variations exist to the so-called “sinner’s prayer.” Most of these include a confession of faith in Jesus, an acknowledgement of... Read More →

By Jimmy Mickells In Luke 15, Jesus reveals several parables about thing that are lost.  There was a lost sheep, a lost coin, and two lost sons.  They were lost for different reasons; the sheep because of its own negligence, the coin because of the negligence of someone else,... Read More →

If you’re spiritually alive, you’re going to love this!  If you’re spiritually dead, you won’t want to read it.  If you’re spiritually curious, there is still hope! A church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it... Read More →

…that the church we read about in the New foro Testament met every first day of the week to partake of the Lord’s Supper (communion)? They didn’t just partake of it on special occasions, but they did it regularly. Luke wrote, “Now on the first day of the week, when... Read More →