Promulgating Manifestly Solecistic Dogma

By Jeffery Kingry I happened to be paging through a bound periodical volume and came across an article I once wrote. In one of the bloated paragraphs I came across the following sentence, “In almost all of the Brotherhood’ papers and in some books written by brethren, there has appeared manifestly solecistic dogma.” I laughed for …

Clement and Instrumental Music

By Jimmy Tuten, Jr. In their efforts to defend instrumental music in worship, some have argued that Christians like Clement of Alexandria in A. D. 190 favored the use of instruments in worship. They dispute the claim that the instrument was introduced into Roman Catholic services rather late and was unheard of in Christian worship until …

“Twenty-five Reasons” Reasonably and Scripturally Refuted (I)

By Larry Ray Hafley Introduction A “tract, by the late J. H. Thurman… reprinted and distributed by the Alumni Association, Mid-Continent Baptist Bible College, Mayfield, Kentucky,” has been submitted for review and, if necessary, for refutation. The tract is entitled “TWENTY-FIVE REASONS Why The First Church Was Organized Before Pentecost.” Its author is deceased, but the …