Elder Don R. Richards

The Bible tells us to avoid all debt, right? After all, doesn’t scripture tell us to “neither a borrower nor a lender be”? No, it…

(Note: This article considers the events of the turmoil in today’s world. This writing involves much of my personal interpretation and experiences, as I see…

Solomon tells us that “. . . and there is no new thing under the sun” (Ecc. 1:9b). Solomon, of course, had never heard of the “corona…

‘Who are thou, Lord’ . . . ‘What wilt thou have me to do?’ — Apostle Paul, Acts 9:5-6, on the road to Damascus The…

‘Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will…

One of the most common names of the Bible is “Simon”. As such, it is easy to be sometimes confused as to the identity of…

…the Zealot A study of the Apostle Simon is mysterious in that we know very little about him. The Bible is almost totally silent about…

The Apostle with three names… Jude said unto him: ‘Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?’…

…Son of Alpheus And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and…

‘And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow…

Thomas was not with the other disciples when Jesus returned. ‘The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said…

Evidence indicates ‘Bartholomew’ and ‘Nathanael’ were one-and-the-same Jesus saith of him: ‘Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile’.  –John 1:47 The Apostle Bartholomew…

          ‘Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith to him,      …

‘When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple [John] standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then…

“Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of thechurch. And he killed James the brother of John with…

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for…

Peter is perhaps the best-known apostle among the original 12 chosen by Jesus. He clearly was the most prominent of the original twelve. While the…

Who were they? ‘. . . he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom he named apostles . . .’…

Ever get the feeling you are an insignificant part of your church? If not, then you are con-siderably different from many of us. You may…

‘For the love of money is the root of all evil’ — I Timothy 6:10 One of the very basic rules we need to know,…