Did you follow the news about the fourteen-year old student in Forth Worth (Western Hills High School) who was suspended because he said that he was a Christian and believed homosexuality was wrong? According to FoxNews (Sept. 22), Dakota Ary’s teacher overheard the statement, which was only made to a friend behind him and not…
We are plagued with a society that is slowly endorsing homosexuality. It seems as though some entertainer, athlete, politician, or social figure “comes out of the closet” every week. We have reached the point where a person jeopardizes his career if he publicly condemns homosexuality. He is accused of being narrow-minded, self-centered, and homophobic. The…
An older friend of ours now deceased used to say, “If one doesn’t believe the first five words of the Bible, the rest doesn’t matter.” Truer words could not be spoken. The stage for the universe, earth, man and woman, and their respective purposes is set from the beginning of the Bible. God doesn’t explain…
By Dan Gatlin Jesus said, “And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will…
By Ron Halbrook The Holy Spirit teaches us in James 5 to be patient and to pray in suffering or affliction of any kind (vv. 10, 13). In particular, the Christian who suffered physical sickness during the time that James wrote was instructed to call for the elders of the church to come and pray…
Failing to see this difference leads to confusion over salvation, especially when the question is raised, “What must I do to be saved?” “I believe we are saved by the blood of Jesus; you believe we are saved by baptism,” some say. The truth is, our salvation is not an “either/or” when it comes to…
This is now the seventh article in this series on All-Sufficiency. In our last article we attempted to prove that the church, by its verv nature, is inevitably all all-sufficient organization. Previously, we studied what the mission of the church is, and demonstrated that no one can add one act to this prescribed mission. At…
Cecil Willis “And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God” (2 Cor. 3:4, 5). This is the sixth article in this series on All-Sufficiency. Previous articles have dealt with the All-Sufficiency in Worship, and the…
Robert H. Farish, Tarrant, Alabama “The Voice of the Pioneers on Instrumental Music and Societies” is the title of a book written by Brother John T. Lewis in 1931. The book was published by the Gospel Advocate in 1932. I have just re-read the book and am so impressed with the valuable material which brother…
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article appeared in the Sept. 1st, 1961 issue of Vital Speeches of the Day. It is the manuscript of a speech delivered to the Annual Meeting of the Maryland Council on Family Relations, Baltimore, Maryland, May 11, 1961, and to The Cadets of The Second Class, United States Air Force Academy,…