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Have you ever wondered what someone might think if all he had ever read were the Scriptures? Suppose someone only knew the Scriptures and had no knowledge of nearly 2,000 years of the way traditions and culture had affected religion. In reading a newspaper, such as the Orlando Sentinel
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Not really. Nobody wins by sinning. But this is the title of a paragraph that appeared in the February 25, 2018 column of the Orlando Sentinel. Each week the newspaper prints blurbs from some of the 100 leaders of the Orlando area. One lawyer and former member of Congress made
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How many apostles were of the female gender? How many elders in the Lord\How many evmany evangelists were women? The answer to all three questions is the same—zero. The reason for that answer is that Christ and His apostles both taught and set the example from which the
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[Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the Southside Mirror (Peoria, Illinois) on September 19, 1982.] Last week my son and I drove over to a nearly-fast-food restaurant to pick up dinner. The chicken was in the process of being prepared; so all customers had
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Billy R. Smith wrote an excellent article for the February issue of the Gospel Advocate. Its title is, "In the World, But Not of the World." He calls to attention several verses that relate to his subject, such as Paul saying that Christians should not "be conformed
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Does The Christian Chronicle think the era of the Holy Spirit’s giving of supernatural gifts has ended? If they do, why are they publishing articles in favor of them? One man assured readers that the Holy Spirit led him to stop at his father’s grave. Another article deals
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Roelf Ruffner, whom we support, sent us yet another action being attributed to the Holy Spirit, which relates to last week’s and this week’s articles. It’s a copy of the invitation that is being extended to all by Lipscomb University, who is hosting a “Formational Prayer Seminar”
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The Christian Chronicle certainly does things that few other of "our" publications do. In fact, it would be improbable that anyone, after reading it, would conclude, "Say, that publication is way too conservative." The opposite reaction, however, frequently occurs. Two recent articles will clarify the point
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Last week we apprised brethren who may not have known about Freed-Hardeman University's use of nudity in both their Art and Photography Departments. Because of Brother Sword's website (https://kteam1981.wixsite.com/fhu-uncovered) and perhaps criticism from others, the new president of Freed-Hardeman,
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"Pornography: A Trojan Horse in Your Church" by Robert Murphy is an article published by the Gospel Advocate in the January, 2018 issue. It is not only timely but necessary for brethren to understand the depth of the problem (if they do not already know). We all may
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Few are the men who will ever match Winford Claiborne. That he preached the gospel for 71 years (he died at the age of 88 in 2014) will impress most people, but beyond that, he was one of the most remarkable Christians I ever met. I heard him speak at
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At first glance, this might seem like the same question asked in the article on page one. To be sure, they overlap, but the perspective in this article does not deal so much with style and approach to worship but content and authority. In other words, what would Jesus have