By Lowell Blasingame “In The News,” a column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, (9/30/97), reported that Brazil’s leading religious artist, Claudia Pastro, had accepted the Vatican’s invitation to give Christ a “face lift” for the third millennium and that he plans to design an “evangelizing, dynamic Christ” as opposed to a “suffering, despairing Savior” and to give …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
“Dry Baptism”
By Shane Carrington Baptism involving absolutely no water! At least that is the claim. “Dry baptism” supposedly describes the process through which people become Christians. God does teach baptism “in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins” (Acts 2:38), but does this baptism include no water? Let’s examine this waterless (dry) baptism idea; …
All Christians Are Bible Fellows
By Johnie Edwards The Bible often refers to the Lord’s people by the term “fellow,” including the preacher! Instead of thinking of the preacher as the hire of the church, we need to think of the gospel preacher as a Bible fellow. Fellow Citizens Paul referred to Christians at Ephesus as fellow citizens. “Now therefore ye …
What Are You Catching In “The NET”?
By Gene Ramsay One in three American girls and one in seven boys will be sexually molested by age 18. Children ages ten and younger are frequently “well versed” on sexual matters. More children contract sexually transmitted diseases each year than all the victims of polio in its eleven-year epidemic from 1942-1953. An average serial child …