Sometimes the most unpleasant topics are worthy of addressing for the benefit of others. That is the case with the theme below.

Why was forgiveness promised to the Israelites when the New Testament says their sacrifices could not provide forgiveness for sins?

Do you love living? Are your days “good” ones or “bad” ones? Your manner of living and your attitude can make a difference.

Every life is a sacred gift from heaven intended to honor the Creator and prepare us for eternity.

Does the case of a mysterious disciple in Mark 9 provide precedent for Christian fellowship with sectarian religious institutions?

Jesus once declared, “Salvation is from the Jews.” What did he mean?

I grew up among kindly people of the Baptist affiliation. My father’s family was of this persuasion. A more gracious, benevolent group of folks could scarcely have been found. It was heartbreaking, therefore, to eventually discover that the church of my ancestry was unknown to the New Testament.

Perhaps the answer to a decline in Christianity is to restore the church as found in the New Testament.

There are more than eight thousand prophetic verses in the Bible. Many of these portray the coming Messiah (Christ). Several are in the marvelous book of Zechariah.

How do you determine what is right and wrong?

What is a command in the New Testament and what is merely cultural and not binding today?

Is it necessary to be a member of a local church?

As Paul concludes his third missionary journey, he pauses at Miletus to meet with the elders of the church in Ephesus. His words are filled with admonition and exhortation, and they contain many wonderful truths needed by today’s church. This month’s Feature deals with the apostle’s address.

Several questions and comments have been recently received relative to some of our material dealing with the purpose of “water baptism,” as that theme is set forth in the New Testament. Accordingly, in this Feature article, we wish to address a reader’s obviously sincere concerns.

We must try to master the art of forgiving—for others’ sake, and for our own.

The most common impression of Jesus is that of a loving, tender, compassionate Savior. But there is another side to that “coin” — the one portrayed in Revelation 19:11ff.

Saul, Israel’s first king, stands as a solemn warning to all who followed thereafter.

Are we baptized in the Spirit or in water?

A critic complains that if human beings have “free will,” they ought to be allowed to do anything they wish. How does the Christian respond to this foolish charge?

Some protest the use of illegal drugs by a glazed-eyed sub-culture, all the while popping pills daily to cope with a variety of problems common to humanity.