Study Materials
Moral Issues Confronting the Church and Society
The Intrinsic Value of Human Life
- Suicide: Self-Deliverance or Self-Condemnation?
- Euthanasia: The Case of Terri Schiavo
- Doctor Assisted Suicide and Mercy Killing
- Abortion and the Right to Life
- The Bible and Abortion: The Woman’s “Right to Choose” versus the Baby’s “Right to Life” (Part One)
- The Bible and Abortion: The Woman’s “Right to Choose” versus the Baby’s “Right to Life” (Part Two)
- Death for You, Freedom for Me: What the battle over abortion is really about (by Tyler Young)
Homosexual Behavior
- The Dignity of Traditional Marriage
- So-Called “Gay Marriage” and the Bible
- The Sin of Homosexuality
- Does the Bible Really Permit Homosexual Practices?
- Open Letter to Gay Activists and Answer to a Pro-Gay Pamphlet
- Detailed Answers to Arguments Put Forth By a Pro-Gay Theologian
- Are the Same-Sex Sanctions of the “Holiness Code” Normative for Christian Ethics? (PDF)
Marriage and Divorce
Christian Ethics and Secular Government
- A Respectful Answer to President Obama about Biblical Interpretation and the Legitimate Moral Basis for Civil Law
- Religion and Civil Law
- The Looming Threat of Anarchy: Abounding Lawlessness and Abating Love
- Does Resistance to Religious Error Allow the Use of Armed Force?
- Should Christians Favor One Political Party Over Another?
- Video: “Christianity and Politics” By Phillip Gray (Anaheim, California 2002)
Youth and Ethics
- The Youth Must Make Ethical Choices
- Immodest Equals Immoral
- Christian Piety and the School Prom
- You’re Not Going to the Prom? By Allen Webster
Mind-Altering Substances
Important Doctrinal Concerns for All Religious Persons
Importance of Doctrine
- Do I Love God’s Truth Enough to Break With My Family Religious Tradition If Necessary?
- Terror Attacks on the United States Should Have Sounded the Death Knell for Religious and Ideological Pluralism
- Chart on “Drawing Lines” of Fellowship (PDF)
Plan of Salvation
- Salvation, God’s Free Gift — By R. W. Gray
- What Can Wash Away My Sins? A Study of Baptism for the Remission of Sins — By R. W. Gray
- Defense of Doctrine of Baptism for the Remission of Sins Against Attacks By a Denominational Greek Scholar — By Lawrence Barclay
The Biblical Doctrine of the Church
- “Upon this Rock I will Build My Church—Period!”
- Restoration of the Original Church of Christ is a Biblical Concept — By R. W. Gray
- The Lord’s Prayer (and Divisions within Christendom) — By R. W. Gray
Biblical Interpretation
- The Resurrection of Negative Thinking — By R. W. Gray
- Strict Construction of the Bible Versus the Alternative of Religious Anarchy
- Principles of Interpretation and Instrumental Music — By R. W. Gray
- Which Translation? — By R. W. Gray
- More On the Translation Controversy — By R. W. Gray
- What Law? — By R. W. Gray
Refuting False Doctrine
- Can a Christian Fall From Grace? — By R. W. Gray
- Christ and the Faith of the East
- The Battle of Armageddon — By R. W. Gray
- Some Thoughts on Dispensationalism — By R. W. Gray
- Sabbath Keeping — By R. W. Gray (PDF)
- The Lord’s Day (PDF)
- DNA Evidence Destroys Mormon’s Claim — By Bill Dillon
- Critique of Jehovah’s Witnesses (PDF)
Other Issues
- Should We Use Wine for the Lord’s Supper?
- The Boundless Love of God
- Women in the Church
- Liberalism in the Church
- Sound Doctrine and a Critique of Rubel Shelly
- A Concerned Response to a Christian Brother and His Views on Repentance
- “Joining the Church”—Let’s Eschew This Sectarian Shibboleth
Evangelism and the Defense of Basic Christian Tenets
- The Right and Obligation to Defend the Faith
- Mission Work (Evangelism) Must also Be Defense Work
- Relationship Between Sponsoring Eldership and the Missionary
- The Nature of Faith and Its Relation to Reason
- “You Ask Me How I Know He Lives? He Lives…Where?”—Care With What We Teach in Song
Biblical Inerrancy
- Implications of Inspiration—Inerrancy and a Pattern-type Hermeneutic (Faulkner University Lectureship, Montgomery, AL 2013)
- Does an Inerrant Bible Really Matter for Doctrinal Purity?
- Answering a Brotherhood Critic of the Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy
Historical Veracity of Scripture
Advanced Studies in PDF Format
- Epistemic Responsibility and the Gradations of Punishment (PDF)
- What Must I Know to Be Saved? (PDF)
- The Universal Moral Law and Special Revelation (PDF)
- Are the Same-Sex Sanctions of the “Holiness Code” Normative for Christian Ethics? (PDF)
- Is “Close” Good Enough? (PDF)
- Isaiah 53 and Predictive Prophecy (PDF)
- Does God Know all the Future? An Evaluation of “Open Theism” (PDF)
- Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis of Old Testament Origins
- The Origin of the First Gospel (PDF)
- The Making of the King James Version of the Bible (PDF)