Frankly Speaking

On their way north to railheads in Kansas, trail bosses followed a path through Indian Territory that was blazed by one of the most import...

Of the great American cattle trails, the most famous and most significant was the one named for Jesse Chisholm. During its peaks years, from...

Meta Chestnutt's arrival in Silver City, Chickasaw Nation, in 1889 coincided closely with the end of the great cattle drives that began ...

My first post about a certain series in The Christian Messenger,  written by "Timothy," and dealing with the Lord's Supper, t...

I spent the first week of 2018 sick. The next thing I knew, we were halfway through January! So, a little later than I had meant to post it,...

What did leaders of the early Restoration Movement believe and teach about the Lord's Supper? And, how did their teachings influence Chr...

"There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. No, there was nothing but land--sl...

This post is a simple, one-page introduction to the New Testament letter known as 2nd Peter. I wrote this as a study handout for a Sunday-m...

With many thanks to Michael C. Mack, editor of the  Christian Standard magazine, I've been able to read and transcribe all of J. Ellis...

I have been evangelizing about three months in northern Texas and the southern part of the Indian Territory. . . . Since crossing the Red Ri...

New Testament Teaching What the Old Testament might have left in doubt, the New Testament makes absolutely clear: when the Scriptures spea...

Old Testament Teaching The prophets of ancient Israel occasionally referred to the last days . In the New International Version, a common ...