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Occasionally, someone sends an e-mail in the form of a question which may lead to a brief (or a lengthy) discussion. This one turned out to be brief, but the ideas brought into it were quite broad. All of the comments came from someone who will be referred to
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Probably few people care, but the Playboy Mansion has been sold for $100,000,000. According to the August 17th (2016) Orlando Sentinel, the five-acre piece of property was purchased by the next-door neighbor (A4). The terms of the sale allow Hugh Hefner, who is 90, to stay
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Recently I have been asked, should a Christian get a tattoo? Since tattoos are very popular these days a good questions that every Christian should ask is, atto."
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About 15 years ago, brethren in a Bible class at Pearl Street were studying the subject of church discipline. This writer asked the question, "Why don't brethren withdraw fellowship the way the Bible says they ought to?" Brother Dub McClish answered succinctly that the problem was
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Ever wonder how preachers prepare their messages? The preaching brother (P.B., for short) whose letter was cited last week (see the two articles from August 21, 2016) commented on some additional topics. One of those involved a conversation with a Baptist preacher who lives in the same town. P.
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A few days ago I received a letter from a fellow preacher in another state who lamented that there were no preachers o live well; the same condition exists in Central Florida.
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One of the questions put into the Question Box simply asked: "What is the 'Lucifer' effect?" The expression seems to have originated with (according to the Internet) Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He has written, among others, three books: The Lucifer
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"Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you" (Matt. 21:31b). In the next verse, as support for this statement, Jesus cites the recent example of these undesirable elements of society responding to the preaching of John while many
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\in 2014, 23% of all American adults identified themselves as atheists,\ claims a news report from The Wall Street Journal (June 4-5, 2016). \Voters Raise Their Voices\ by Laura Meckler analyzes the religious faith of voters. While it is pointed out that the largest voting block among Democrats is
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The word, integrity, is found sixteen times in the Old Testament. (In this era of television and corruption, integrity is scarcely to be found at all.) In eleven passages, the word translated \Version is tom [8537] (pronounced tome). According to Strong, this masculine noun refers to \completeness, fullness, simplicity, and
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How many have ever heard of the National Monument to the Forefathers? If not, one might wonder how he made it through 12 grades of learning (and some beyond that) without ever hearing about it. Everybody knows about the famous landmark that we call The Statue of Liberty, which was
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As news commentator Paul Harvey used to say, "Here is a strange." The following event took place in Utica, New York, and was reported in the July 6, 2016 Orlando Sentinel. The title of the article grabs the reader's attention immediately—"Woman Found Guilty in