And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Jude 1:14 Jude 1:14 acts as a stern warning regarding the certainty of God’s judgment against false teachers who have secretly infiltrated the church. Verses 5–16 describes false teachers and what will happen to them.…

The simplest answer is that it is not relevant to our faith in Him being the Son of God. And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of…

I’m sure many of you have heard the old saying, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, then it’s a duck.––If a squirrel doesn’t want to get killed by duck hunters, then he probably shouldn’t dress up like a duck, walk around like a duck, and…

Over the years, Christians have pondered the best way to handle the massive amount of sexual temptation that overruns the modern culture. Living in a country where so many songs, television shows, movies, books, social media outlets are consumed with visual displays of sex, immodesty, and the normalization of fornication Christians must fight an uphill…

Christ is the head of the church (Col. 1:18). He has all authority and power (Matt. 28:18). Christ ordained that elders were to oversee and shepherd churches (Acts 20:28). Each congregation is responsible for appointing the men that meet the Lord’s qualifications, and those elders rule over the church where they reside; each church has…

Christ possesses the sole authority in the church, being the head of the kingdom (Matt. 16:18,19; Eph. 1:20-23). Christ appointed elders to be overseers of the local congregations that make up the universal church (Acts 20:28; Heb. 13:7, 17). Every church in the Lord’s kingdom should be organized with elders to shepherd and protect the…

As established previously, Christ has sole authority in the church, which is His kingdom (Matt. 16:18-19; Eph. 1:20-23). As head over all things to the church, Christ alone dictates the operation and organization (John 15:1-2). We should not go to anyone other than Jesus and the inspired writers of the New Testament to learn the…

Christ is the head of the church There should be no question as to who is really in the greatest position of authority. Christ proclaimed in His return from the dead, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18). Likewise, God testified in the Scriptures to the authority of Christ,…

Traditionally, the churches of Christ do not incorporate cultural festivities or man-made religious holidays into the worship service. In order to maintain the church’s first-century identity and biblical authority, the churches of Christ do not go “above [beyond] that which is written” (1 Cor. 4:6). The church only includes those actions in worship that God…

The death of a loved one can be a most detrimental tragedy within the time one is allotted on this earth. Such horrendous heartbreaks can cause even faithful Christians to take a step away from God or abandon their faith completely. The one source of comfort that many of us possess is knowing that we…