By Alex Ogden It had been twenty-one years since this nation had buried a president. The flag draped casket being transported on a horse drawn cart, the horse without a rider, the twenty-one gun salute are all memories I have from presidential funerals during my childhood. On a trip to Washington, D.C. when I was eight, …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Does “The 28” Have the Elements of a Creed?
By Robert F. Turner Only the “straw man” argues all questions make a creed. The issue is: despite undoubted good intentions by the writer, does “the 28,” with accompanying letter, have the elements of a creed. I did not “request” this exchange, as reported in Ron’s letter to Gospel Truths, April issue. His offer to make …
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Our Bible Questions Have No Elements of a Human Creed
By Ron Halbrook Every passage instructing elders to guard the church authorizes them to ask questions by generic authority, just as the elders here did (Acts 20:28-32; 1 Pet. 5:1-4). Their questions are no more creedalistic than literature nor sectarian than classes. Every passage instructing the church to proclaim the gospel authorizes literature and classes by …
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Misdirected Energy
By Steven Deaton Today it seems like there are a million “causes.” Save the whales, save the earth, “Just Say No,” conservativism, and so on. While none of these in and of itself is wrong, it can endanger our soul’s eternal life. How? When we put more energy, time, thought, and devotion into them, than into …