By Johnny Thompson I was going to the prom! I thought about it for days, and then decided to go. After all, I would be a senior but once. So why not? I well knew that informing my parents would be most difficult. I was a minister’s son who had been taught all my life …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Dancing
By Marshall E. Patton Dancing is an age old problem in the church, and it continues to present itself anew with each rising generation. While the problem appears over and over, dancing itself appears in a new form from generation to generation. This study shows, however, that the same basic evil in dancing of the past …
Gospel Preachers Cannot Compromise On Worldliness
By Mike Willis When I was young enough to barely remember going to worship services, I distinctly remember attending a gospel meeting at a congregation located not far from my home at which the preacher condemned worldliness. He preached extensively about the sin of worldliness and condemned the very appearance of evil. Finally, he came to …
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Respectable Worldliness
By Hiram Hutto To trace the development of the word from which we discuss worldliness (kosmos) is an interesting, if somewhat disappointing, exercise. Initially it meant an ornament, then the ordered or beautiful arrangement of the universe, next the earth, then the inhabitants of the earth – most of whom are bad, and thus finally the …