By Tom M. Roberts If by character assassination, ignoring the truth, condemning as factional, or in some other way, the message of faithful men is silenced, it doesn’t change the truth of the gospel. In ancient Oriental kingdoms, messengers who brought a monarch bad news sometimes suffered the penalty of death. Woe to the messenger who …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Don’t Kid Yourself
By Carl McMurray Sunday School Adult Quarterly took a national survey and compiled the following statistics. Although the survey was not taken specifically among our brotherhood, it nonetheless provides some interesting information since attitudes that are common in the world are often shared (to some extent) by New Testament Christians. It was found that among church …
Reading, Writing, and Reflecting
By Steve Willis Roman Pope OKs Darwin This may be “old news,” to you, but it is the first time I’ve had a chance to remark on it. Our Medicine Hat News (Oct. 24, 1996) had the headline: “Pope OKs Darwin’s theory after 137 years.” The article from Reuters news service continued: “Pope John Paul has …
Thirty-Three Million Unborn
By Kenneth Sits A couple of days ago, a “Right To Life” monthly pamphlet came across my desk with this tragic cartoon on the front cover. As a nation, we have had to tolerate legalized abortions for almost 22 years and for many, the test of time has produced the “numbing” effect of indifference and apathy. …