Abortion

• Abortion: Your Response
• Hook’s Points, FR 235
• Stem Cell Debate at Harvard - Leroy Garrett
• The Value of An Unclaimed Cat
• Who Has Higher Motives

Abraham

• Abraham Was Justified By Faith #1
• Abraham Was Justified By Faith #2
• Abraham Was Justified By Faith #3
• Children of Abraham

Accepting

• Measuring Ourselves as We Measure Others
• Roses With Other Names
• Trampling through the TULIP (Is Faith a Gift?)

Actors

• Role Playing in Drama

Adam

• Not All That Simple: Adam and Eve in Eden

Adultery, see Marriage; Adulterating Marriage

• Jesus and the Adulterous Woman
• More About Defining Adultery
• Two Presidents: Defining Adultery

Affirmation (A Christian Affiration)

• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 1
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 2
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 3
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 4
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 5
• Response to A Christian Affirmation, Garrett

Antichrist

• The Antichrist
• The Papacy in the Church

Apostles’ Power Dispute

• In Defense of the Apostles’ “Power Dispute”

Ark

• Children in the Ark
• Quickie Comments on Children in the Ark

Assemblies

• On First Day of the Week?
• Why Assemble? #1 (Edification)
• Why Assemble? #2 (Worship)
• Why Assemble? #3 (Lord’s Supper)
• Why Assemble? #4 (Preaching)
• Why Assemble? #5 (Collection)
• Why Assemble? #6 (Singing)

Assurance of Salvation, see Conversion

• Effective Fear
• Trampling through the TULIP

Attorney

• Do You Need an Attorney?

Autobiography of Cecil Hook – “Grit In My Gizzard”

• Cremation and Funerals
• Grit in My Gizzard No 1 the Gizzard
• Grit in My Gizzard No 2 Family Formation
• Grit in My Gizzard No 3 On the First Farm
• Grit in My Gizzard No 4 On the New Farm
• Grit in My Gizzard No 5 Religion in Rochester
• Grit in My Gizzard No 6 Time and Change
• Grit in My Gizzard No 7 Around the House
• Grit in My Gizzard No 8 Around the House (Continued)
• Grit in My Gizzard No 9 God’s Creatures
• Grit in My Gizzard No 00 Ol’ Rosie Goes to College
• Grit in My Gizzard No 10 a Bleak Landscape
• Grit in My Gizzard No 11 Off to College
• Grit in My Gizzard No 12 College Life
• Grit in My Gizzard No 13 Out Into The World
• Grit in My Gizzard No 15 Beyond the Sabine
• Grit in My Gizzard No 16 Into Cajun Country
• Grit in My Gizzard No 17 Back in Texas
• Grit in My Gizzard No 18 out West Again
• Grit in My Gizzard No 19 Trauma of Change
• Grit in My Gizzard No 20 Free at Last
• Grit in My Gizzard No 21 a Cyberspace Church
• Grit in My Gizzard No 22 Off Into the Sunset
• Grit in My Gizzard No 23 and in Conclusion
• Grit in My Gizzard No 24 to the Golden Triangle
• God’s Creatures Great and Small
• Riding in The Front Seat

Baptism

• Baptism Before the Epistles and Theologians
• Baptized Into One Body
• Baptizing “For the Remission of Sins”
• Ceremonies of Baptism - Catholic
• Is Immersion Essential for Unity?
• Paul Not Sent To Baptize
• Proselyte Baptism
• Rebaptism for the Right Purpose
• Saved Like the Thief on the Cross
• The Confirming and Unifying Role of the Holy Spirit
• The Importance of Baptism
• Who Is Your Mother?
• Why Are We Baptized? One Reason.
• You Cannot Remit Sins by Baptizing

Belly-Button, see Creation

• The Great Belly-Button Controversy

Bible

• Another Translation
• Dating the Gospels and Revelation
• Luke: An Investigative Reporter
• The Bible Code
• Thoughts Concerning Inspiration of the Bible

Bird Theology

• Bird Theology

Birth, New

• Trampling through the TULIP (Literal or Figurative)

Blood

• Blood and Life
• The PASSION and Pain

Bride in A Burka

• The Bride in a Burka

Buildings

• Rethinking Church Buildings

Calvinism

• Trampling Through the T-U-L-I-P

Campbell

• Campbell’s Rude Awakening, Garrett

Celebrities

• Venerating Icons

Celibacy

• Priests, Celibacy, and Pedophilia

Change

• Modifying the Pattern
• Those Classified Ads

Children

• Children in the Ark
• Who Is Your Mother?

Christ

• Mutual Identity: Christ and Man
• The PASSION and Pain
• Unfinished Work of Christ

Christian

• Biblical Use of “Christian”

Christmas

• Observance of Days

Church

• A Community Church
• A Mission-Minded Church?
• Baptized Into One Body
• Campbell’s Rude Awakening, Leroy Garrett
• Changing the Name of Your Church
• Don’t Ridicule the Church
• Earthly Expectations
• Exorcising the Organizational Demon
• Failures of Sectarianism
• Help for the Thessalonians
• How to Start a Church
• I Joined the Church of Christ
• In The Lonely Mission Field
• In the Family of God
• In the Family of God #2
• Is The Church Composed of Denominations and Sects
• Members of the Body
• Members of the Church
• Modifying the Pattern
• My “Restoration” Heritage: Good or Bad?
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 1
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 2
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 3
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 4
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”:  2005 # 5
• Our Identity
• Physical Resurrection / Preterist
• Rethinking Church Buildings
• Roses With Other Names
• The Bride in a Burka
• The Falling Away
• The Nameless Road
• The One True Church
• The Papacy in the Church
• The Unchanging Church with Changing Features
• Those Classified Ads (Developing Organization)
• Viewing the Holy City
• Vocabulary Adaptations
• When You Outgrow Your Church
• Who Has Authority in the Congregation
• Why Assemble, #1

Coming of the Lord

• A Look at Matthew 24, #1
• A Look at Matthew 24, #2
• A Look at Two Parables, Greg Rasaka
• Bible History Ends Abruptly
• Children of Abraham
• Coming on the Clouds
• Corinthians Eagerly Await the Parousia
• Corinthians Receive Second Letter
• Dating the Gospels and Revelation
• Earthly Expectations
• “End-Time Prophecies” All Fulfilled
• Eschatological Table of Passages, #1
• Eschatological Table of Passages, #2
• Hebrews in Preterist Perspective
• It Is Time (McRay)
• Lack of Confirmation by Early Writers
• “Last Day” Raising of the Dead
• Last Days Mission of Holy Spirit
• Lawless Man Incites Rebellion
• Millennial Musings
• Olivet Discourse Omitted by John
• Pentecost Sermon
• Phillip Schaff Was A Preterist!?
• Prophetic Messages in Acts
• Prophetic Parables
• Salvation Was Near For Roman Disciples
• Spirit, Soul, and Body Kept
• Terrible Times
• The Antichrist
• The Battle of Armageddon
• The Coming Again of Jesus in John 14, (Bray)
• The Coming of the Lord, #1
• The Coming of the Lord, #2
• The Coming of the Lord, #3
• The Falling Away
• The Great and Terrible Day
• The Papacy in the Church
• The Physical Made Spiritual
• The Sun, Moon, and Stars
• Viewing the Holy City

Commands

• Command, Example, Inference
• Commands Are Insufficient Motivators
• Obeying the Commands
• Worship as Commanded

Communion

• Comments Before Communion
• First Day of the Week?
• Why Assemble? #3

Conditional Immortality, see Hell

Conditional Salvation

• Public Confession of Sins
• The Gardener, the Vine, the Branches
• Trampling Through the TULIP
• Who Is that Blessed Man?

Confession of Sin

• Public Confession of Sins

Conformity or Diversity

Conservative

• Conservative, Liberal, or Whatever

Conversion

• Ananias and Paul on Conversion
• Conversion of Evariste Hebert
• Drawn by the Father
• My Conversion Experience

Covenant

• Death of the Custodian
• The Covenant of Salt

Creation Account

• A “Hands On” Creator
• An Examination of Genesis 1-4, #1
• An Examination of Genesis 1-4, #2
• Blind Spots
• Let the Earth Bring Forth
• Not All That Simple: Adam and Eve
• Not All That Simple: Refining Faith
• The Great Belly-Button Controversy

Creeds

• Fudge, 37/8

Cremation

• Cremation and Funerals

Critics

• Monday Morning Quarterbacking

Cross

• Unfinished Work of Christ on Cross
• What Was Nailed To the Cross?

Dahmer, Jeffrey

• An Evil Appetite

Day of the Lord, see Coming of the Lord

• Pentecost Sermon

Days

• Observance of Days

Deacons

• Offices, Titles, and Functions

Death

• #3. Resurrection by Hannegraaff
• #4. Are We Born Immortal
• #5. “Last Day” Raising of the Dead
• #6. Resurrection Has Taken Place
• #7. Isaiah 65 and Heaven
• #8. Unfinished Work of Christ on the Cross
• #9. Reconciliation and Preterist Eschatology
• #9A Two Mediators
• #10. Intermingled Spirits
• #11. Hanging Threads
• Death, Immortality, and Heaven:  No 2
• Death, Immortality, and Heaven:  No 4
• Death, Immortality, and Heaven:  No 9
• Death, Immortality, and Heaven:  No 9a

Democracy

• A Weakness of Democracy

Denominations

• Baptized Into One Body
• Campbell’s Rude Awakening, Leroy Garrett
• In The Lonely Mission Field
• Is the Church Composed of Denominations and Sects
• Roses with Other Names
• The Nameless Road

Determinism

• Trampling through the TULIP

Divisions, etc.

• Paul, Apollos, Cephas, or Christ …
• Standing on the Issues, 17/2;

Doctrine

• Going Beyond What Is Written
• Gospel and Doctrine as Related to Unity
• Standing on the Issues

Drama

• Role Playing in Drama

Earthly Expectations

• Earthly Expectations
• The Physical Made Spiritual

Elders

• Definite Laws and General Principles
• Exorcising The Organizational Demon
• Patriarchs: Past and Present
• Servants and Surrogates
• Who Should Rule the Congregation?
• Women Elders

Election

• Trampling through the TULIP

Email Only

• Last printed edition

Enemies

• Who Needs Enemies?

Environment

• Intelligent, but not too Smart

Eschatology, See Coming of the Lord

• The Falling Away

Evangelism

• A Mission-Minded Church

Evangelists: Unseen and Unheard Evolution, See Creation

• A “Hands On” Creator
• Learning from a Setting Hen
• Let the Earth Bring Forth

Exodus

• Not All That Simple

Faith

• Abraham Was Justified by Faith #1
• Abraham Was Justified by Faith #2
• Abraham Was Justified by Faith #3
• Before Faith Came - Faith Has Come
• Effective Faith Includes Effective Works
• Heroes of Faith or of Works
• Not All that Simple: (Refining Faith)
• The Seven Senses
• Trampling through the TULIP (Is Faith A Gift?)
• Trampling through the TULIP: (Faith and Repentance Gifts?)

Falling Away, See Coming of the Lord

• The Falling Away

False Teachers & Teachings

• False Teachings and False Teachers

Fear

• Effective Fear
• The Dark Side of the Moon

Fellowship

• Amazing Kinship
• In The Lonely Mission Field
• In the Family of God
• In the Family of God, (Continued)
• The Extent of Fellowship

Foods

• Handle Not, Nor Touch, Nor Taste

Function

• Members of the Body
• Office Title, or Function

Funerals

• Cremation and Funerals

Garrett, Leroy

• Is Hell Fire Endless? Garrett

Gentiles

• Lazarus: Our Prototype

Giving

• An Overlooked Lesson
• Do You Sacrifice Enough?
• GIVING: Geese and Golden Eggs
• GIVING: God’s Part & My Part
• GIVING: Or Grasping,?
• GIVING: Or Tithing?
• GIVING: To Spend for What?
• GIVING: To the Church or Persons?
• Why Assemble? #5

Glorifying God

• Our Purpose on Earth

God

• Does Nature Reveal God’s Love
• Drawn to Christ by the Father
• Intermingled Spirits
• Learning from a Setting Hen
• Not All That Simple: His individual attention
• Oh My God (Hallowed Name)
• One Nation – Without God #1
• One Nation – Without God #2
• The Dark Side of the Moon – God’s Vengeance
• Vertical and Horizontal Worship: God of high places
• Whose Child Are You?

Going Beyond

• Going Beyond What is Written

Gospel

• Gospel and Doctrine as Related to Unity
• The Gospel Plus What?
• Why Paul Could Make Tents

Grace

• An Overlooked Lesson
• Early Converts Who Sinned
• Grace and the Ephesians
• Grace and the Galatians
• Grace and the Rich Young Ruler
• Heroes of Faith or of Works
• Jesus and the Adulterous Woman
• Olympic Losses by Split Seconds
• The Gardner, the Vine, the Branches
• The Sin of Trying Too Hard
• Trampling Through The TULIP: Cause and Effect

Grit in My Gizzard, see Autobiorgaphy

Heaven, see Resurrection; also Death, Immortality and Heaven

• Death Immortality, and Heaven: Isaiah 65 and Heaven 293
• Locating Heaven
• More About Heaven

Hell, Unending Torment?

• Is Hell Fire Endless? Garrett
• Myths about Hell, Dickinson

Holy Spirit

• Can An Unbeliever Bear Fruit of the Spirit?
• Detecting the Spirit
• Drawn to Christ by the Father
• Intermingled Spirits
• “Last Days” Mission of H.S.
• Saved by the Holy Spirit
• Spirit and Flesh: An Allegory #1
• Spirit and Flesh: An Allegory #2
• Spirit-Created Unity
• Spiritual Communications
• Spiritual Gifts: Mission Accomplished
• Spiritual Gifts: One More Time
• The Confirming and Unifying Role
• Whose Child Are You

Homosexuality

• Persons vs. Homosexual Practices

Honor

• A Sneaky Trick: Honoring the Hooks at Westside
• Honor the Emperor

Hope

• The Hope of Israel

Icons

• Venerating Icons: Mother Teresa & Princess Diana

Identity

• Our Identity
• The Bride in a Burka

Immortality, See Death, Immortality, and Heaven

• Death, Immortality, and Heaven, No. 4 (Born Immortal?)
• Questions About Immortality

Inconsistencies

• Blind Spots
• Intelligent but not too Smart
• Measuring Ourselves As We Measure Others

Instrumental Music.

• Body Language
• Silence Says Something
• The Sacrifices of Cain and Abel

Inspiration

• Luke: An Investigative Reporter
• Thoughts Concerning Inspiration of the Bible
• Why Did Luke Write Two Books

Interpretation

• Children in the Ark (Limiting Statements)
• Coming of the Lord #3 (Literal interpretation)
• Definite Laws and General Principles
• Empirical, Theoretical, or Whatever
• Hope for C-Students
• Interpretation of the Bible (Dr. James Albert)
• Law of Silence / Exclusion
• Lawyers, Law, and Principle
• Quickie Comments on “Children in the Ark,”

Islam

• PBS: Missionary for Islam?
• Questionable Loyalty of Muslims

Issues

• Standing on Issues

January 1, 2002

• January 1, 2002

Jesus

• Do You Need an Attorney
• How Jesus Looked
• Is Jesus the Only Route to Heaven
• Jesus the Great Accomplisher
• Jesus’ Ear Was Pierced
• Jesus’ Physical and Spiritual Deaths
• Jesus’ Prayer for Unity Was Answered

Joining the Church

• I Joined the Church of Christ

Judging

• Measuring Ourselves as We Measure Others

Justification, See Abraham Was Justified by Faith

• “None Is Righteous, No Not One” Really?

Kinship

• Amazing Kinship

Ketcherside, Carl

• Death of the Custodian
• Thoughts on Fellowship

Last Days, see Coming of the Lord

• “Last Days “ Raising of the Dead
• Terrible Times
• The Last Days: Then or Now? Dan Delagrave

Last Will and Testament

• Another Last Will and Testament?

Law of Moses

• “Keep Moses’ Law” Jesus Urged
• LAW: Not Bound on the Dead
• Law: Not Nailed to the Cross

Laws and Principles

• Definite Laws and General Principles
• Law of Silence/Exclusion
• Lawyers, Law, and Principles
• Obeying the Commands
• Yes, We Are Under Law!

Lazarus

• Lazarus: Our Prototype

Lea Hook

• After Thoughts
• Elma Lea Memorial Library
• In Memorium: Elma Lea Hook
• Riding In The Front Seat (Revised)

Legalism

• Isms of Legalism, James Albert
• Lawyers, Law, and Principles, #1
• Lawyers, Law, and Principles, #2
• May A Legalist Be Saved?
• Obeying the Commands
• Olympic Losses by Split Seconds

Liberal

• Conservative, Liberal, or Whatever

Love

• Does Nature Reveal God’s Love?

Luke

• Luke, An Investigative Reporter
• Why Did Luke Write Two Books

Luther. Martin

• Martin Luther: Always a Good Catholic

Man of Sin

• Lawless Man Incites Rebellion

Mansions in Heaven?

• The Coming Again of Jesus in John 14

Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage

• #1 – Jesus Explained Moses’ Law
• #3 - Defining Marriage
• #4 – Problems with Legalism
• #5 – Adulterating Marriage
• #6 – Specific Laws and Principles
• Marriage-Divorce-Remarriage A Review Booklet:
• More About Defining Adultery
• Polygamy
• Priests, Celibacy, and Pedophilia
• Two Presidents Defining Adultery

Mediator

• Death, Immortality, and Heaven: (Two Mediators)

Millennium

• Millennial Musings

Misconceptions

• Accepted Misinformation
• More About Accepted Misinformation

Moon

• The Dark Side of the Moon, God’s vengeance

Motivation

• Commands Are Insufficient Motivators

Name of the Church

• Changing the Name of Your Church
• The Nameless Road

New Birth

• Children of Abraham (Figurative birth)
• Who Is Your Mother

Obedience

• Jesus Obeyed for You
• Obeying the Commands

Office

• Office, Title, or Function

Organization, see Elders; Exorcising the Organizational Demon

• Help for the Thessalonians (Professionals)
• Members of the Church

Pain, see Sacrifice

• Jesus’ Physical & Spiritual Deaths
• THE PASSION and Pain

Parables

• A Look At Two Parables, Rasaka

Parousia, see Coming of the Lord.

Pattern, Patternism

• Modifying the Pattern
• Vertical and Horizontal Worship

PBS

• PBS: Missionary For Islam?

Paul’s Rebuke of Peter

• Did Peter Deserve Paul’s Rebuke?

Placing Membership

• I Joined the Church of Christ

Pope

• Pope John Paul II

Prayer

• “If The Lord Wills”

Preachers

• Evangelists: Unseen and Unheard
• Jack Rabbits and Turtles (Burnout)
• Servants and Surrogates
• “They Won’t Let Me Preach
• We Agree: Women May Preach
• Women Ministers Common in Our Churches

Preaching

• Why Assemble? #4

Prophecy, See Coming of the Lord

• Do We Test Joel’s Patience?
• “End-Time Prophecies” Already Fulfilled

Purpose

• Our Purpose on Earth

Rebaptism

• Rebaptism For the Right Purpose

Reconciliation

• Death, Immortality and Heaven No. 9 (Reconciliation)

Religion and Peace

• A Day Like No Other: (September 11, 2002)
• A Dove or a Hawk

Restoration

• Modifying the Pattern
• My Restoration Heritage: Good or Bad?
• My Thoughts on “A Christian Affirmation”, #1 through #5
• The Falling Away
• The Ideal and the Real
• The Unchanging Church with Changing Features

Resurrection

• “Last Days” Raising of the Dead
• Last Days Resurrection
• Locating Heaven
• More about Resurrection (Rasaka)
• Physical Resurrection / Preterist
• Questions about Immortality
• Resurrection by Hanegraaff
• The Hope of Israel
• Three Days and Three Nights (Rasaka)
• Will Flesh or Spirit Be Immortal?
• With What Body?

Righteous

• In Defense of Good People
• “None Is Righteous, No Not One! Really?

Role Playing

• Playing Roles in Drama

Sacrifice

• Do You Sacrifice Enough?
• Sacrifices of Cain and Abel

Satan

• Another Look at Satan
• Another Look at Satan #2
• Satan (Bernard)

Scams

• Beware of E-mail Scams

Schools

• Religion in Schools

Secularism

• One Nation – Without God
• One Nation – Without God #2

Senses

• The Seven Senses

September 11, 2001

• Another Day of Infamy

Silence of the Scriptures

• Children in the Ark
• Law of Silence / Exclusion

Simple

• Blind Spots
• Intelligent, but Not Too Smart
• Not All That Simple: Adam and Eve
• Not All That Simple: God’s Attention to Individuals
• Not All That Simple: How’s That Again?
• Not All That Simple: Refining Faith
• Not All that Simple: The Exodus
• Still Wondering

Singing

• Why Assemble? #6

Speech

• Oh My God! “Hallowed Be Your Name”
• Vocabulary Adaptations

Stephen

• Stephen: Then and Now

Suicide

• Does Suicide Seal One’s Doom?

Teachers, False

• False Teachers and False Teachings

Teaching

• Going Beyond What Is Written

Terminology

• Vocabulary Adaptations

Theology

• Bird Theology

Thief

• Saved Like the Thief on the Cross

Tithing

• GIVING: Or Tithing
• The Tithe, Guilt, and Luxury

Titles

• Office, Title, or Function

Tradition

• How’s That Again?
• The Calf-Path
• Those Classified Ads

Truth

• The Truth that Frees

T-U-L-I-P

• If The Lord Wills
• Trampling Through the TULIP (Calvinism)

Understanding

• Hope for C-Students
• Things I Understand Better

Unity

• Aims and Observations
• Gospel and Doctrine as Related to Unity
• Is Immersion Essential for Unity?
• Jesus’ Prayer for Unity Answered
• Paul, Apollos, Cephas …
• Roses with Other Names
• Spirit-Created Unity
• The Quest for an Unidentified Unity
• Thoughts on Fellowship

Warfare

• A Dove or A Hawk?
• Love, Isolation, and Violent Intervention
• Thoughts on the Current Conflict

Women

• Do We Test Joel’s Patience? (Women prophesying)
• Evangelists: Unseen and Unheard
• Jesus and the Adulterous Woman
• “They Won’t Let Me Preach”
• We Agree: Women May Preach
• Women Elders
• Women Ministers Common in Our Churches

Works

• An Overlooked Lesson
• Different Kinds of Works
• Do You Sacrifice Enough?
• Effective Faith Includes Effective Works
• Heroes of Faith or of Works
• May A Legalist Be Saved?
• The Sin of Trying Too Hard
• Who Is that Blessed Man?

Worship, and Service

• Body Language
• Do You Sacrifice Enough?
• Going Beyond What Is Written
• More Questions about Worship
• Our Purpose on Earth
• Silence Says Something
• The First Day of the Week
• The Sacrifices of Cain and Abel
• Vertical and Horizontal Worship and Service
• Why Assemble? #2
• Worship As Commanded
• You Are My Valentine