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We just posted two lessons on the English Bible with class notes, audio, and handouts. How did we get our Bible? Is the Bible reliable? Which version should I choose? We have also posted new lessons on Josephus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Jewish Feasts.
Questions about Revelation? Why was it written? When was it written? Who is the villain? Please read or listen to our series of 25 lessons on the book of Revelation.
Questions about Daniel? Please listen to the series of 38 audio lessons on the book of Daniel. These lessons were taught at the Fleetwood church of Christ in Houston, Texas.
What does the Bible say? He that believeth and is saved shall be baptized? Or he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved? (See Mark 16:16.) And what do you say?
Questions about Baptism? Please read our special lesson on that vital topic, and read about God's Plan of Salvation. Please listen to these gospel sermons that explain why you need to be baptized for the remission of your sins: (1) The Salvation of Man by Eric Owens, (2) The Gospel of Naaman by Eric Hall, and (3) Baptism by N. B. Hardeman. There are only two verses in the Bible that tell you how to get "into Christ" -- Galatians 3:27 and Romans 6:3. What do they tell you about baptism?
We just posted 13 lessons on Second Corinthians 1-3 on the Second Corinthians Class Home Page. We also just posted 9 new sermons and Bible classes to our main Audio Page.
We have posted some new audio sermons: The Gospel of Naaman, Christian Counterculture, and Making Decisions. Also, we are continuing to post lessons on Daniel at our companion site: StudyDaniel.com.
We have posted a series of lessons taught by Jess Hall on the book of Job. Here is the class home page.
We have posted a devotional lesson on the cross of Christ and six lessons on First Corinthians on our new and improved audio page. Enjoy!
We have posted a new audio lesson on Spiritual Focus.
We just posted a new audio lesson: An Introduction to First Peter.
We just posted a new audio lesson by Eric Hall: Things in Hell We Need in the World
We just posted audio and written copies of Eric Hall's special lesson on the Kingdom of God: Audio Lesson on the Kingdom (MP3 format), Written Lesson on the Kingdom (PDF format), and Class Handout (PDF format).
We just posted 15 new answers to questions submitted by our readers, bring the total number of questions answered to 431.
New eBooks by Ed Wharton Available at Amazon.com: The Case for Historic Christianity, Redemption Is, Christ and the Church, The Church of Christ.
Commentaries by Jim McGuiggan now available as eBooks: Revelation and Daniel.
We just posted 4 video lessons on the book of Matthew: Introduction, Judas Iscariot, The Cross of Christ, and The Resurrection of Christ.
We have posted a copy of the commencement address delivered by Eric Hall at Faulkner University on May 3, 2008. The address is also available in PDF format and MP3 format.
12 Lessons on Ezra and Esther (with video!)
25 Lessons on Isaiah (with video!)
We just posted 5 new gospel sermons by Jess Hall along with an introduction to the book of Daniel by Eric Hall.
52 GOSPEL SERMONS!! We have just posted 52 gospel sermons preached by Jess Hall between 1991 and 1998. They are in the MP3 format. Enjoy!
NEW AUDIO SERMONS! We have just posted an MP3 copy of Jess Hall's sermon on The Certainty of the Promise and an MP3 copy of his sermon, Is There Any Word From God? We have also posted an MP3 copy of Eric Hall's sermon on Hope in the Promise, and an MP3 copy of his sermon, Lessons from Elijah. Also available is an MP3 Audio File of Eric Hall's Lecture "Hope in the Promise" from the 2009 Faulkner University Lectureship.
Worried about false teachers? You can now read their top secret game plan in The Handbook for False Teachers.
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- Special series of lessons on Thought Provoking Questions.
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- Our readers have submitted over 400 questions on a very wide variety of Bible subjects.
- Does God know beforehand the outcome of a coin flip? Must a Christian forgive those who do not repent? Is God a Democrat or a Republican? Is the Bible full of contradictions? Isn't baptism a work? What does the Bible say about lottery tickets? You can find answers to these and many other questions in our special series of lessons on Thought Provoking Questions. Topics included: Marriage & Divorce, Baptism, The Role of Women in the Church, End Times, Mormonism, Social Drinking & Gambling, Instrumental Music, The Lord's Church, Evolution & Intelligent Design, Forgiveness, the Holy Spirit, the Afterlife, Secular Humanism, Premillennialism and the Rapture, The Restoration Movement, Alleged Contradictions in the Bible, The Christian and the Law, Time and Chance, The New Hermeneutic, God and Politics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam, and Muhammad.
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4 Lessons on Matthew (with video)
28 Lessons on Ezra and Esther
25 Lessons on Isaiah (with video)
25 Lessons on Revelation
38 Lessons on Daniel
25 Lessons on Thought Provoking Questions
13 Lessons on James and Jude
24 Lessons on First Corinthians
25 Lessons on Second Corinthians
12 Lessons on the Lord's Church
24 Lessons on Romans
13 Lessons on First & Second Peter
25 Lessons on Ezekiel
11 Lessons on Elijah and Elisha
13 Lessons on Ecclesiastes
9 Lessons on First & Second Timothy
3 Lessons on Love
5 Lessons on Miracles
Video Lesson on the Cross of Christ:
Video Lesson on the Resurrection of Christ:
Are you singing without thinking? Or worse, are you leading singing without thinking about the songs you are choosing? Song leaders, like preachers and teachers, have a tremendous responsibility. Does your song leader take that responsibility seriously? Or does he take it lightly? Without impugning anyone's motives, I hope that at least we can all agree with this starting point: (1) it is better to think about what we are singing than to sing without thinking, (2) if a song is counter to what we find in God's word, then that song should not be sung in our worship service, and (3) poetic license is not a license to proclaim error. Singing is an important part of our worship service. Although the church properly rejects the use of musical instruments in worship, we often are not as quick to reject songs that are clearly at odds with the word of God. Many of the songs we sing came from the denominational world, so it should not surprise us that some of those songs contain denominational errors. Indeed, some of the newest song books are the worst in this regard because they were deliberately designed to appeal to and be sold to the denominations that surround us. Thus, for those of us who use these new song books, it is very important that we pay particular attention to the songs that we sing so that those denominational errors do not enter into our worship service. More...
Life from lifelessness? Order from disorder? Textbooks teach our children that they are just animals and share a common heritage with earthworms. Godless judges do not permit the tenets of evolution to even be questioned in our public schools ... even though the evolutionists themselves have nothing but questions! What caused the Big Bang? They don't know. How did life come from non-life? They don't know. The history of evolution is a history of hoaxes. Evolutionists know they have a choice: either life was created by God or life spontaneously generated. They cannot face the former and so they cling to the latter despite having no evidence that it has ever happened. Evolution is not a fact; evolution is a theory. Evolution is not science; evolution is a religion. Read more about these topics at Apologetics Press. Also, see our special lesson on intelligent design. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse." (Romans 1:20)
The Bible teaches that baptism is essential to salvation. It is at the point of our baptism that we enter the kingdom of God and depart the kingdom of darkness. Our deliverance from sin involves a passage through water, which to anyone who knows the Old Testament should not be surprising. It is at our baptism that we die to sin and are raised to walk in newness of life. It is at our baptism that our sins are washed away. To reject these facts is to reject the word of God. The denominations proclaim that he who believes and is saved shall be baptized, but that is not what Jesus said. Jesus said that he who believes and is baptized shall be saved. More...
Most daily Bible reading schedules have two problems. First, the daily readings are not balanced, with many readings taking three or four times longer than others to complete. Second, the daily readings offer little variety, with the New Testament being pushed to the very end of the year. The 52-Week, Balanced, Parallel Daily Bible Reading Plan offered here solves both problems. Click here to read more about it and download your own copy.
Many of the lessons presented on this website include complete audio presentations of the class in which the lesson was originally presented. The lessons are in the MP3 format and may be played on any computer or portable MP3 player such as an iPod. At present there are over 250 such lessons, which (at 45 minutes per class) is nearly 200 hours of Bible classes! Classes with audio include Ezra & Esther, Isaiah, Revelation, Daniel, Thought Provoking Questions, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, the Lord's Church, Romans, First & Second Peter, and Ezekiel (partial). Many audio sermons are also available.
Many of our recent lessons are now also available as video lessons. We have 25 video lessons on Isaiah, 12 video lessons on Ezra and Esther, 13 video lessons on Preparing to Teach the Bible, and 4 video lessons on Matthew. The video lessons on Matthew include: Introduction to Matthew, Judas Iscariot, The Cross of Christ, and The Resurrection of Christ.
God's Plan of Salvation
You must hear the gospel and then understand and recognize that you are lost without Jesus Christ no matter who you are and no matter what your background is. The Bible tells us that “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) Before you can be saved, you must understand that you are lost and that the only way to be saved is by obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. (2 Thessalonians 1:8) Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6) “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
You must believe and have faith in God because “without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6) But neither belief alone nor faith alone is sufficient to save. (James 2:19; James 2:24; Matthew 7:21)
You must repent of your sins. (Acts 3:19) But repentance alone is not enough. The so-called “Sinner’s Prayer” that you hear so much about today from denominational preachers does not appear anywhere in the Bible. Indeed, nowhere in the Bible was anyone ever told to pray the “Sinner’s Prayer” to be saved. By contrast, there are numerous examples showing that prayer alone does not save. Saul, for example, prayed following his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:11), but Saul was still in his sins when Ananias met him three days later (Acts 22:16). Cornelius prayed to God always, and yet there was something else he needed to do to be saved (Acts 10:2, 6, 33, 48). If prayer alone did not save Saul or Cornelius, prayer alone will not save you. You must obey the gospel. (2 Thess. 1:8)
You must confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. (Romans 10:9-10) Note that you do NOT need to make Jesus “Lord of your life.” Why? Because Jesus is already Lord of your life whether or not you have obeyed his gospel. Indeed, we obey him, not to make him Lord, but because he already is Lord. (Acts 2:36) Also, no one in the Bible was ever told to just “accept Jesus as your personal savior.” We must confess that Jesus is the Son of God, but, as with faith and repentance, confession alone does not save. (Matthew 7:21)
Having believed, repented, and confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, you must be baptized for the remission of your sins. (Acts 2:38) It is at this point (and not before) that your sins are forgiven. (Acts 22:16) It is impossible to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ without teaching the absolute necessity of baptism for salvation. (Acts 8:35-36; Romans 6:3-4; 1 Peter 3:21) Anyone who responds to the question in Acts 2:37 with an answer that contradicts Acts 2:38 is NOT proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Once you are saved, God adds you to his church and writes your name in the Book of Life. (Acts 2:47; Philippians 4:3) To continue in God’s grace, you must continue to serve God faithfully until death. Unless they remain faithful, those who are in God’s grace will fall from grace, and those whose names are in the Book of Life will have their names blotted out of that book. (Revelation 2:10; Revelation 3:5; Galatians 5:4)
