“They Watch For Your Souls”

By Irvin Himmel A responsibility may be both awesome and joyful, at times painful yet rewarding. This is the case with the weighty charge for which overseers in the church are accountable. The Hebrew writers expresses the thought in this way: Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for …

Bible Basics: Speak As The Oracles of God

By Earl E. Robertson The apostle Peter wrote, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God . . .” (1 Pet. 4:11). There is no divine directive more needed today than this one in the midst of denominational jargon and theological palaver of preachers and elders. One church recently advertised in the …

Christianity: The Personal Pattern The Rich Life Is Not `Slender Now’

By Jeffery Kingry This article will likely land me in a pickle with some brethren. It seems as though some articles I write, though obviously directed at the abuse of a system, are invariably taken as a blanket disavowal of the proper use of the thing. In this series of articles we are attempting to direct …