The Ancient Faith
Christian Ethics
A sign of spiritual maturity is the capacity to discern between good and evil (Hebrews 5:13,14). We hope the sermons on this page will help each of us to test all things, hold fast to what is right, and abstain from every form of evil (1 Thess.5:21,22). We pray for the Lord’s wisdom in making sound, ethical choices which bring glory to His name (James 1:5).OUTWARD APPEARANCE
Written Studies:
- Modest Apparel – Wayne McKamie
- Modest Apparel: The Woman’s Role – Melvin Blalock
- Bible Principles of Dress for Christians – George Vergara
- “Let Her Be Covered” – Don L. King
- The Head and Its Covering– George Battey
Audio Sermons: 🔊
Modest Apparel– Wayne McKamie
MORAL ISSUES
Written Studies:
- Moral Issues Confronting the Church: Gambling – Johnny Elmore
- Television, Movies and Videos – Jimmie C. Smith
- Legal But Wrong, Gambling and the Lottery – Ronny Wade
- Dancing – William St. John
- Tattoos – Ronny Wade / P. Melton
- American Tophet (Abortion) – Smith Bibens
- The Bible and Homosexuality – Don King
- The Celebration of Christmas – Ronny Wade
- Love not the World – Fred Kirbo
- Spiritual Discernment – P. Melton
ALCOHOL, MARIJUANA, DRUGS
Written Studies:
- The Use of Alcohol and Drugs – Ronny Wade
- Social Drinking – Irvin Barnes
Audio Sermons: 🔊
- Alcohol and Drugs – Jimmy Smith
RELATIONSHIPS
Written Studies:
- The Home, Safeguard of Society, the Truth and the Church – Ronny Wade
- Training Children: To Spank or Not to Spank? – James D. Orten
- Marrying a Non-Christian – Ronny Wade
- “Only in the Lord” – Miles King
- Discipline in the Home – Homer A. Gay
- “I just don’t love you anymore” – Jimmie Smith
Audio Sermons: 🔊
The Family – Greg Gay
ACTS OF SERVICE
Written Studies:
- Footwashing – Worship or Hospitality? – A. Newberry
- The Christian and Carnal Warfare – Paul Nichols
- Can a Child of God Serve on a Jury? – Alan Bonifay
The Ancient Faith website is a thematic collection of scholarly yet simple Bible essays and sermons, many of which were composed by Restoration preachers such as J.W. McGarvey, Moses Lard, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Campbell. These courageous men of faith through hours of Bible investigation studied themselves out of denominationalism, asking for “the old paths” (Jer. 6:16) and seeking to return to “the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). We join with these men in their fervent plea to restore “the ancient order,” “the ancient gospel” or, as it was sometimes called, “the ancient faith.”