John like to use the word “whosoever.” Here are some examples: 1 John 2:23 (NKJV) 23  Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. To be without God is to be in a hopeless and spiritually lost state. It is to be in a […]

Have you ever read a scary book? It is apparently quite enjoyable because many people read them. I’m not sure why scary books are such a big hit, but they always have been. Maybe it’s the suspense involved in not knowing what is going to happen next. Maybe it’s the rush experienced when one is […]

I have often pointed out that living the life of a Christian is not always easy. We are always endangered by the assaults of Satan. Peter said, “…the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). Furthermore, we are always under the pressure of giving in to materialism […]

There are those today, even in certain religious circles, who would deny the resurrection of Christ. The Jesus Seminar, a controversial group which is supposed to look at the New Testament historically, claims that there is no evidence that the resurrection of Christ really took place. They say the passages in the New Testament that […]

“Man, that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble” (Job 14:1). Time, as we know it, is running out for each one of us. Compared to eternity, our life is short. You get married and before you know it, you are celebrating your fiftieth marriage anniversary. You have children […]

I recently read that the success rate in marriage today is about 25%. That means that 75% of marriages either end in divorce or are less than what God wants them to be. There are several different tragic storylines associated with this truth, but none more significant than the loss of souls. How are souls […]

As Christians we are involved in a war with the devil. The language of the New Testament affirms this to be true. Paul told Timothy that “No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier” (2 Timothy 2:4). All Christians […]

The divorce rate has gotten so out of hand in this country that there is a jewelry store in L.A. where you can actually rent wedding rings. The message is that your marriage is probably only temporary anyway, so why invest in a ring that you call your own. Just rent a ring and when […]

The Brown Street church of Christ is what brethren refer to as a non-institutional church. What that means is that we oppose human organizations doing the work that God gave to the church specifically, that is, to individuals who make up the universal church and to local churches made up of individual Christians. There has […]

The Restoration Movement began in the early 1800s but that was not the beginning of the Lord’s church. The Lord’s church started in the first century when Peter preached the first gospel sermon on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:14-47). To claim that the Lord’s church started with, or emerged out of, the Restoration Movement, […]