To Our Writers

Please send all articles to Sandy: sjditoro@hotmail.com  We use only "homegrown" articles, written by our subscribers who are members of the church of Christ (no forwarded messages from other sources, please). Please contact Sandy if you want to write and she will supply you with a list of titles/passages to choose from.  At present, our articles follow a different theme each month.

Editing 

All articles will be edited for such things as spelling and scriptural content. If you would like to see a preview of your article as it will be posted, please let Sandy know this when you send in the article. (Note: We now have three staff editors, one who edits for the devos at present) (All articles are viewed by 4 pairs of eyes before they go to the list...that way hopefully typos etc are caught before they go out...we all commit typos....it is no big deal, we just try to catch them so no one will be embarrassed)

Versions

Please use King James, New King James, or American Standard Version  in the articles that you submit. 

Things Not to Include

Please do not include links in your articles or prayer requests.  Please do not include names of congregations, schools of preaching, brotherhood universities, names of denominations, publications etc.....  in your articles or prayer request. 

Length of Articles

Our readers have let us know that they prefer short articles.  Please submit articles no longer than 900 words.  If your article is longer than 900 words, please divide it into Part 1 and Part 2. 

Please take note before you write:

It is a common practice on the part of many of our church members for the women to work outside the home, and much has been said about this being a proper and acceptable practice. But this practice is often used to challenge the Bible teaching that the woman is to be a keeper at home (Titus 2:5). We do not want to write so as to contradict the Bible. Therefore, in order to strengthen the home, we do not want our articles to give support to the woman being employed outside the home, notwithstanding the fact that many are so employed. Let us only use language that supports the role of the woman as is presented in the Bible. We speak where the Bible speaks and we are silent where the Bible is silent on the subject of women working outside the home. Students who read and obey God's Word will give answer to God for how they lived by His Word. Teachers will give an account for how they teach.  Let students apply His Word to their own lives...we ask you not to do that job for them.  We ask OBC teachers and writers to simply teach the Word not interpret or make exceptions when it comes to the subject of women working.  This is the safe rule. Those of us who are responsible for what goes out to the OBC list will have to give an account to God for what our teachers teach. OBC takes God's admonition to teachers very very seriously:

 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;  and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. (2 Timothy 4:2-4)

 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. (James 3:1)

Holy Spirit

When referring to the idea of being guided by the  Holy Spirit: Please do not teach or imply that there is a literal indwelling of the Holy Spirit that works apart from the teachings of the Word of God. To  do so nullifies the teaching of 2 Timothy 3: 16, 17.

    a. If it is claimed that the Holy Spirit provides something that the word of God does not provide, then the word does not make the man of God perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works (2 Tim. 3:17).
    b. If the Holy Spirit provides only what is taught in the scriptures, then why claim there is a benefit from a separate indwelling of the Holy spirit?

    c. The word of God IS the sword of the Spirit. therefore we must exalt it.