Welcome!
What is available here? You will find thousands of pages of detailed class notes on a variety of Biblical subjects and many hours of audio lessons and sermons. You will also find complete commentaries on Daniel and Revelation, a large collection of essays on preaching, answers to many questions submitted by our readers, and many other valuable resources including book recommendations and a unique Bible reading plan.
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What's New?
Click here for a wonderful lesson about Numbers 34-36, including a crash course from Wilderness University. For an MP3 audio copy of the lesson, click here.
A copy of the commencement address delivered by Eric Hall at Faulkner University on May 3, 2008, can be obtained by clicking here. For a PDF copy suitable for printing, click here. For an MP3 audio copy of the address, click here. For more information about Faulkner University, click here.
We are presently teaching 13 lessons on James and Jude at the Katy church of Christ and the lessons will continue through July and August. Please plan to attend. The class notes and class audio are posted here each week.
We have added a new blog to discuss current events. Please send us links to interesting articles and editorials that we can share with others. We have also added a new page for frequently asked questions.
We are making progress on our backlog of user submitted questions, and you can see the new answers added each week here. We have also added a new section of devotional messages here. New audio lessons can be found here. Please let us know if you have any suggestions. Thank you for visiting our website!
For a sermon on Psalm 1, please click here for the audio MP3 version and click here for a PDF transcript. For other audio sermons, click here.
The Lord's Church
God adds people to his church when they are saved. (Acts 2:47) If you are saved, then you are in the church. If you are not in the church, then you are lost. For 10 things that everyone should understand about the church, please click here. For a discussion of common misconceptions about the church, please click here. To see how God views the church, please click here. What is the church of Christ? Click here to find out. Finally, click here to read about a current dangerous movement to turn the Lord's church into just another denomination, and click here to read a special Handbook for False Teachers. Click here for 12 lessons on the Lord's church.
Baptism
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...
Audio Lessons
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 121 such lessons, which (at 45 minutes per class) is over 90 hours of Bible classes! Classes with audio include Thought Provoking Questions, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, the Lord's Church, Romans, First & Second Peter, and Ezekiel (partial). Many audio sermons are also available.
Worship in Song
Are you singing without thinking? Or worse, are you leading singing without thinking about the songs you are choosing? 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. More...
Plan of Salvation
Please click here to see the most important section of this website: God's Plan of Salvation. (1) You must hear the gospel and recognize your condition; (2) You must have faith in God; (3) You must repent of your sins; (4) You must confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; (5) You must be baptized for the remission of your sins; and, (6) You must be faithful unto death.
Many in the denominational world today falsely teach that baptism is not necessary for salvation. To see why they are wrong, please click here. "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." (Acts 22:16)
Read Your Bible!
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.
Questions?
A class on Thought Provoking Questions was recently taught at the Katy church of Christ. Click here for the class home page and over 500 pages of detailed class notes. 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.
We are now accepting questions on any Bible related subject. We will research your question and then provide an answer here on this site. (We are not able to provide individual or immediate responses.) Click here to submit a question, and click here to see the answers to questions that have already been submitted.
1st Corinthians
Click here for 24 lessons on First Corinthians. In this epistle, Paul deals with many current issues facing the church both then and now - immorality, divorce and remarriage, the role of women, spiritual gifts, the importance of love, and the resurrection of the body.
2nd Corinthians
Click here for 25 lessons on Second Corinthians. In this epistle, Paul continues to deal with problems facing the church in Corinth, which now include an influx of false apostles who are belittling Paul and demeaning his apostolic authority.
1st & 2nd Peter
Click here for 13 lessons on the books of First & Second Peter. Were those books written by Peter? Was Peter the first pope? Why were those books written? Are false teachers still a problem today?
Romans
Click here for 23 lessons on the book of Romans. These lessons take you on a verse by verse study of what many consider to be the most beautiful book in the Bible.
Ezekiel
Click here for 25 lessons on the book of Ezekiel. These lessons take you on a verse by verse study of this fascinating but often neglected book from the Old Testament.
Elijah & Elisha
Click here for 11 lessons about Elijah and Elisha. These notes provide a verse by verse study of 1 Kings 16 through 2 Kings 13, as well as a lesson about the role of Elijah in the New Testament.
