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“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). After Phillip Schaff supplies background information about the apostles and a timeline of New Testament events, from the birth of Christ to the exile of John in Patmos (1:219-22), he discusses the miracle of Pentecost,
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“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). Phillip Schaff is the author of the eight volumes of History of the Christian Church. According to Wikipedia, Schaff was born in Chur, Switzerland and educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart. At the universities of Tübingen, Halle
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Malala Yousafzai, mentioned on page 3, boarded a school bus (in Pakistan) on October 9, 2012. Shortly thereafter, according to Wikipedia, a man with a colt 45 asked for her by name and shot at her three times, hitting her once. The bullet traveled through her forehead, lodging in her
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“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). In the middle part of the 19th century, the research of Phillip Schaff (1819-1893) on the history of the Christian church was published; volume 1 is dated 1858. The other seven volumes followed, but quotations here
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Malala Yousafzai, mentioned on page 3, boarded a school bus (in Pakistan) on October 9, 2012. Shortly thereafter, according to Wikipedia, a man with a colt 45 asked for her by name and shot at her three times, hitting her once. The bullet traveled through her forehead, lodging in her
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Well, let’s see, it’s been all of three weeks since this writer had something to say on this subject (see June 29, 2014). That’s about how long the newspaper (Orlando Sentinel) can leave the topic alone (actually, it’s much less than that). This promotion of homosexuality
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“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). You would have thought the Supreme Court had approved, as Professor Henry Higgins once rhymed, “a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition” when they recently ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood. To be sure,
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Malala Yousafzai, mentioned on page 3, boarded a school bus (in Pakistan) on October 9, 2012. Shortly thereafter, according to Wikipedia, a man with a colt 45 asked for her by name and shot at her three times, hitting her once. The bullet traveled through her forehead, lodging in her
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“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). “I’m bored,” is what parents often hear from their children—usually about three days after summer vacation begins. Of course, many of us today who are parents or grandparents probably never uttered such words and may
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Another book especially helpful for new Christians is this year’s lectures from the Bellview Church of Christ in Pensacola, Florida. The approach of this volume is to show how the Bible is arranged and to give a brief synopsis of each era. It begins with, “The Theme of the
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This title of the 2014 Contending for the Faith lectureship book poses an all-important question for older members, as well as those who have newly become Christians. The introduction states the goals of this volume for brethren—“to keep them faithful to the Lord—unspotted from the world…” and
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By way of review, something new was tried in our Bible Classes last week. The adults competed against the college and high school students during our class time Sunday morning and Wednesday night. 103 questions covering material from Genesis-Ruth was used. Everyone had a great time. The adults came