ANSWERS FOR OUR HOPE—Marshall E. Patton
Attitude and Co ntinual Cleansing …………………………………………..224
A Welcome Change…………………………………………………………………..269
Elders and Adopted Children …………………………………………………. 77
Repentance and Confession ……………………………………………………. 61
ARROWS OF TRUTH FOR DENOMINATIONAL
ERROR—Ward Hogland
“Alms to My Natio n”………………………………………………………………..110
Good and Bad Cognomens………………………………………………………. 11
Forty Down and Sixty to go……………………………………………………..295
Two A’s of Bible Unity, The …………………………………………………….433
BEHAVING ONESELF IN GOD’S HOUSE—
J. Wiley Adams
Changing Scene, The ……………………………………………………………….230
Faith is the Victory ………………………………………………………………….463
Preaching and False Brethren………………………………………………..516
BREAD OF LIFE—Herschel E. Patton
Babylo n, Not Yet Fallen………………………………………………………….132
Eating the Bread o f Life ………………………………………………………… 80
False Religion is not Bread …………………………………………………….365
“Feed My Sheep” …………………………………………………………………….109
“Loathing Go d’s Gifts”……………………………………………………………488
More o n Religious Conflict ……………………………………………………..251
“No t B re ad” …………………………………………………………………………….322
Prospecti ve Gain Co unted Loss for Christ…………………………….460
Religio us Conflict …………………………………………………………………….226
BUILDING BETTER FAMILIES—James R. Cope
A Marriage Ceremony…………………………………………………………….297
Beginning Early……………………………………………………………………….391
“B ut N urture Them”……………………………………………………………….152
Consistency and Right …………………………………………………………….515
Continuing Steadfastly ……………………………………………………………445
Elements of Discipline…………………………………………………………….372
Elements of Successful Discipline …………………………………………342
Firmness with Kindness …………………………………………………………468
Focus on the Will of God………………………………………………………….486
God’s Order for Parents…………………………………………………………. 85
Parental Blindness ………………………………………………………………….204
Parental Duties and Needs …………………………………………………….. 53
Parent al Patience ……………………………………………………………………529
Parental Stupidity ……………………………………………………………………229
Parenthood a Sacred Trust…………………………………………………… 6
“P ro vo ke N ot “………………………………………………………………………….131
Signposts and Yardsticks ………………………………………………………..249
Some Elements of Successful Parental Discipline ………………271
“Tom Never Left Down the Bars Again” ………………………………559
EDITORIAL: Connie W. Adams
About this Special Issue…………………………………………………………..410
About Our August Special ……………………………………………………….148
“And Set the Table with Love” ……………………………………………….195
Another Example of Catholic Pressure………………………………. 5
A Shameful Failure …………………………………………………………………. 75
A Short Course in Premillennialism………………………………………219
Bobbie is at Rest……………………………………………………………………….387
Claude Worley………………………………………………………………………… 6
Collingsville Affair, The ………………………………………………………….123
Co ntributions and Buying Services ……………………………………….. 27
Does the New Testament Authorize Co ngregatio nal
Singing?………………………………………………………………………………..459
Editorial Stew:
Heart Transplant for David Jo y…………………………………………267

Ho pe fo r the P resent and the F uture ………………………………. 555
Lesso ns from the House of Mourning ……………………………… 555
Losing My Shirt(s) ………………………………………………………………267
On the Lighter Side …………………………………………………………….. 555
Purely Personal …………………………………………………………………. 555
Thanks for a Jo b Well Done ………………………………………………. 267
Twenty Five Years……………………………………………………………… 268
Winter Studies …………………………………………………………………….. 268
Young Christians in College………………………………………………. 555
Evelyn Puckett at Rest…………………………………………………………… 196
“Her Husband Shall Praise Her “…………………………………………… 411
H. E. Phillips Suffers Heart Attack ………………………………………. 410
In Much Wisdom is Much Grief ………………………………………………339
“Lord, Is it I?”…………………………………………………………………………..507
Marks of a Stable Church ………………………………………………………..147
Mind of Christ and Error, The ………………………………………………..363
Need for Reliable Translations, The ………………………………………172
On Textual Variations ………………………………………………………………243
Our Light Afflictio n…………………………………………………………………..315
Receptio n of our August Special Issue …………………………………..243
Roy E. Cogdill…………………………………………………………………………..435
Twisted Lo ve and Unity……………………………………………………………531
Weldo n E. Warnock to Write Questio n and
Answer Column……………………………………………………………………291
Who is Greatest in the Kingdom? ……………………………………………51
Who Moved?……………………………………………………………………………… 291
“Whose Sins Ye Remit—Whose Sins Ye Retain” …………………. 483
Wisdom of God, The ………………………………………………………………. 3
Word of the Truth of the Gospel, The……………………………………… 99
EXPOSITION: TEXT AND CONTEXT—
Weldon E. Warnock
Fruit-bearing Christians …………………………………………………………201
God Has Been Expelled …………………………………………………………..156
Good Advice From a Denominatio nal Preacher …………………. 29
We Have Become Stoic …………………………………………………………….221
INSIGHT—Dee Bowman
What the Beer Commercials Don’t Say………………………………….105
MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS—Rodney Miller
Nehemiah: Let Us Rise Up and Build …………………………………… 54
MYSTERY OF INIQUITY, THE—Eugene Britnell
A Letter from Italy……………………………………………………………………368
An Ambassador to the Vatican ……………………………………………… 78
An Immoral System ………………………………………………………………..440
“Bisho ps Ignore Our Society’s Real Foundatio ns “……………..294
Cardinals go to College ……………………………………………………………462
Catholicism and Idolatry ………………………………………………………..222
“Confessions?—Ask the Man Who Goes There!”…………………128
Forgi veness Only in Catholic Church…………………………………….318
Pope Heals a Doctor Who Was Not Sick! The ………………………203
“Pope Says Relics are St. Peter’s ” ……………………………………… 5
Pope Speaks to the Lutherans, The ……………………………………….. 36
“Pope to Petition Mary fo r Natio n’s P rotection” …………………536
Tr ansubst antiation …………………………………………………………………..514
“Treaty Signals End of Catholicism as Official State
Religion in Italy” ………………………………………………………………..102
RESTORATION FOOTNOTES—Earl Kimbrough
Bible O nly, The …………………………………………………………………………361
“Debate Thy Cause” …………………………………………………………….. 7
Evangelizing by Debates…………………………………………………………446
Evangelizing Through Re vi vals……………………………………………. 465

“The O bject Co ntemplated”…………………………………………………..202
“P aul Chose Silas and Departed” ………………………………………….487
Restorers Approach to Evangelism………………………………………350
Self—supporting Evangelist…………………………………………………..388
SIMPLICITY IN CHRIST—P. J. Casebolt
Believe, Repent, and… Whac k! …………………………………………….298
Car Wrecks and Orphans ………………………………………………………..517
“C hildren of this World, The “…………………………………………………394
Digressi ve Pattern, The………………………………………………………….560
Eunuch’s Confession, The ……………………………………………………….316
Excuses …………………………………………………………………………………….481
“Good News from a Far Co untry”…………………………………………533
“Legs of the Lame, The”…………………………………………………………447
Simplicity in Christ………………………………………………………………….250
Smyrnas and Philadelphias, The …………………………………………..467
Snoring the Baby Awake…………………………………………………………349
Tea Bags and the Gospel …………………………………………………………277
“Try O ut “, The …………………………………………………………………………373
THINGS MOST CERTAINLY BELIEVED—
Julian P. Snell
Certainties of Our Salvation (1)……………………………………………..457
Certainties of Our Salvation (2)………………………………………………489
Preachers and Preac hi ng ……………………………………………………….241
Social Drinking ………………………………………………………………………..130
“We Are of the Truth”……………………………………………………………..511
What is Wrong?…………………………………………………………………………385
THINK ON THESE THINGS—H. E. Phillips
Crossroads: Organization of Human Power ……………………….. 49
Destiny of the Crossroads System …………………………………………145
Emergence of the Crossroads System………………………………… 1
Eyes to See and Ears to Hear but not Understand! ……………..193
Jesus Christ is the Son of Go d…………………………………………………217
Making of a New Translatio n, The …………………………………………169
Nature of the Revelatio n of Go d, The…………………………………….338
Unscriptural Organizatio n and O peration of Crossroads…. 73
Why Crossroads is Called a Cult …………………………………………….121
Why Does Crossro ads Teach One Thing P ublicly and
Practice Ano ther?……………………………………………………………… 97
Yater Tant’s Involvement with Crossroads………………………….. 25
USING THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT—Ken Green
Almost a Miracle ……………………………………………………………………..444
An Antidote for the Blues ………………………………………………………..389
Case of Baby Fae, The …………………………………………………………….345
Childhaven Affair, The ……………………………………………………………197
Common Sense Economics …………………………………………………….364
Financial Compensatio n for Meetings and Debates ……………463
Go to the Mosquito……………………………………………………………………491
How Much is too Much?………………………………………………………….. 84
How’s this for Extravagance? ……………………………………………….. 58
Is Nothing Sacred?…………………………………………………………………..537
WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURES? (ROM. 4: 3)—
Weldon E. Warnock
Guardian Angels………………………………………………………………………367
Man of Sin, The ………………………………………………………………………..317
May the Guilty Party Remarry? ……………………………………………535
Repentance Before Faith ………………………………………………………..439
Restitutio n of All Things………………………………………………………….394
Will Jesus Stand on the Mt. of Olives?……………………………………343
What is the Rock? …………………………………………………………………….292
Women and Bible Classes ……………………………………………………….510

Our Lord’s Incarnatio n—No. 1 ………………………………………………..340
Our Lord’s Incarnatio n—No. 2 ………………………………………………..369
Adams, Barbara C.
She, Being Dead Yet Speaks
The Blessings o f a Preacher’s Wife …………………………………..423
Adams, James W.
Get-To gether, An Appreciation……………………………………………….364
Adams, Martin W.
From the Pew’s Point of View…………………………………………………414
“My Fat her t he Farmer ” ………………………………………………………..490
Adams, Stanley W.
Hubbard Ho well Obeyed the Gospel………………………………………108
My Aunt Bobbie ………………………………………………………………………..420
Adams, Terry
Remembering Mom Adams …………………………………………………….421
Adams, J. Wiley
Family Reflections …………………………………………………………………..415
Adams, Wilson
“Boy George” the Bear ……………………………………………………………351
Fast Food, Rubber Checks, J. C. Penny and
Judge Holford ………………………………………………………………………313
Good Friends and Good Food ………………………………………………….398
Her Children Call Her Blessed ………………………………………………..412
Moses on Capital Hill ……………………………………………………………….289
Reflections on Life ……………………………………………………………………150
Adams, Wilma H.
Bobbie, My Sister-In-Law ……………………………………………………….419
Basset, Don
Wayne Ear nest Passes ……………………………………………………………532
Bassett, Jerry F.
Scientific Objectivity?……………………………………………………………..206
Blackford, Dick
Can Co nservative Brethren Evangelize the World?…………….127
How to be a Christian in a Wicked World………………………………397
“The Pen is Mightier than the Sword” …………………………………..438
Bowman, Dee
Reflectio ns on a Funeral …………………………………………………………422
Byers, Harold
Bo bbie Adams as a Teacher ……………………………………………………417
Casebolt, P. J.
Philippines, ’84 ………………………………………………………………………..151
Trends in Translation……………………………………………………………….225
Edwards, Johnnie
Some Things Go d Does Not Intend to do ……………………………….i l l
Farrish, Robert H.
High Cost of Sin, The ……………………………………………………………….563
Negati ve and Po sitive Preaching ………………………………………….270
Fiscus, Gary L.
Silver Threads Among the God………………………………………………494
Galloway, Wayne
Setting the World on Fire…………………………………………………………538
Toward More Effecti ve Teaching …………………………………………..134
Givens, Don
The Cults…………………………………………………………………………………. 8
WORD OF HIS GRACE, THE—Marshall E. Patton
Materialism ……………………………………………………………………………..508

Grider, A. C.
All of the Truth on “All “…………………………………………………………..134
Assumed or Assigned………………………………………………………………464
Compromise of the Truth ……………………………………………………….. 87
Institutionalism Calls for More Institutio ns…………………………207
No Need for an Organizatio n…………………………………………………..231
Truth or Consequences……………………………………………………………. 34
What is the Issue?…………………………………………………………………….278
Where’s the Scripture? ……………………………………………………………101
Why They Quit Defending Their Doctrine ……………………………155
Himmel, Frank
Godliness and Worldliness……………………………………………………… 10
“Have You Not Read?” ……………………………………………………………265
Mar di Gras ………………………………………………………………………………. 30
Hillis, Roger
The Primary Mission o f the New Testament Church ………….564
Hudson, Bruce
House to House …………………………………………………………………………564
Jenkins, Eli zabeth
My Friend, Bobbie …………………………………………………………………..419
Jenkins, Ferrell
Paul’s First Journey Revisited—No. 1…………………………………..484
Paul’s First Journey Revisited—No. 2…………………………………..512
Paul’s First Journey Revisited—No. 3…………………………………..534
Paul’s First Journey Revisited—No. 4…………………………………..557
Jones, W. R.
Word of God Does Not Change, The ……………………………………….351
Joy, David L.
Inequities of Life ………………………………………………………………………518
Lord is Faithful, The ……………………………………………………………….348
Lee, Irven
God’s Silence …………………………………………………………………………….274
A Good Wife………………………………………………………………………………436
Martin, Don
Raising of Lazarus …………………………………………………………………..399
Martin, Luther W.
“Day o f Visitation, The”………………………………………………………….470
Four Letters, The …………………………………………………………………….541
“I t Turneth Itself as Clay of a Seal “—Job. 38: 14 ………………..231
Roman Catho lic “Racco lta”………………………………………………….. 14
Rule of Faith, The…………………………………………………………………….327
McClister, David
A Portrait of the Early Church……………………………………………….303
Melton, Fred C.
Go Abroad, Young Man—Go Abroad……………………………………..392
Miller, G. Spencer
Litigatio n and the Church………………………………………………………..374
Milliner, Ronny
Security of the Saint
Sin, the Great Separator ( l )………………………………………………299
False Views Outside the Church (2) ………………………………….321
False Views Inside the Church (3)……………………………………346
Facto rs in our Security (4) ………………………………………………..390
How can I have Daily Security………………………………………….443
Morr, Phil
“Austr alia, ‘8 4 “……………………………………………………………………….252
Nowlin, J. Edward
Instrumental Music in Worship: Then and Now…………………561
Paul, Moses and 430 Years ……………………………………………………..324

Phillips, H. E.
Bobbie Colley Adams as an Editor’s Wife …………………………….416
Pickup, Martin
Calvinism and the Sovereignty o f Go d………………………………….. 12
Calvinistic Sovereignty and Romans 9 …………………………………. 59
Is Calvinistic Sovereignty Biblical?………………………………………. 35
Pratte, David E.
You Must Read this Book …………………………………………………………447
Puckett, Franklin T.
Special Feature—Impute d Righteousness, Grace,
and Forgiveness—No. 1……………………………………………………… 81
Special Feature—Impute d Righteousness, Grace,
and Forgiveness—No. 2………………………………………………………103
Special Feature—Impute d Righteousness, Gr ace,
and Forgiveness—No. 3………………………………………………………125
Rader, Donnie V.
Four Laws Related to Unity…………………………………………………… 469
Glory is Departed from Israel……………………………………………….. 553
Let’s Be a Little More Optimistic…………………………………………..325
A Recipe for a Good Day………………………………………………………… 505
Take Heed Unto Thy Doctrine……………………………………………….. 62
Rader, Dorris V. and Donnie V.
New International Versio n (or Pseudo-Version), The ………..174
A Reply to D. R. Spears…………………………………………………………..246
A Short Reply to Bro ther Spears ……………………………………………273
Ramsey, Steve
Men’s Business Meetings ………………………………………………………..539
Shewmaker, Fred A.
Maine Men ………………………………………………………………………………..276
Spears, Dudley Ross
David Lipscomb (The Man) Versus David Lipscomb
(The College)………………………………………………………………………. 38
A Brief Statement in Reply …………………………………………………….272
A Response to Criticism of the NIV ……………………………………….245
Thomas, Craig V.
A Case for Jesus……………………………………………………………………….158
Thomas, Kenneth E.
Ingredients for Growth ……………………………………………………………492
Terry, Richard W.
Saving the World but Losing Our Families…………………………..493
Things Higher, Warmer and P urer ……………………………………….540
Tibayan, Victorio R.
This “Church of Christ” is not the Lord’s!……………………………302
Ward, Dene
Calling Our H usbands, “Lord”………………………………………………275
Crown of Her Husband, The …………………………………………………..558
Whoso Findeth a Wife—I …………………………………………………………320
Whoso Findeth a Wife— II ……………………………………………………….344
Ward, Keith
Is the Weatherman Your God? ……………………………………………….562
“Nuff Said” ……………………………………………………………………………..273
Warnock, Weldon E.
Given to Hospitality…………………………………………………………………418
Weaver, H. Osby
Seeing the Invisible………………………………………………………………….278
Weaver, H. Osby and J. T. Smith
A Report We Would Rather no t have to Make………………………227