By Steve Wolfgang Footnote: Bernard A. Weisberger, “Reflections on the Dry Season,” American Heritage, May/June 1990, 28-30. Through the years, there has been a useful body of pertinent research done by well-recognized historians on the general background of Prohibition. For example, Bernard Weisberger, a nationally-recognized historian who writes a current-events column (“In the News”) for the …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Another Election Year, So What?
By Robert Wayne La Coste Here we are in the year 1992 on the eve of another national election. To most if not nearly all Americans, there is a “ho-hum” atmosphere existent. There are probably a number of reasons for this. People are bored with politics, fed up with mud-slinging and in general ready to barbeque …
Some Short Shots
By Larry Ray Hafley (1) Often we are asked that if baptism is for the remission of sins, then why do we not baptize a child of God every time he sins? Those who ask the question think that it poses a dilemma for those of us who believe what Acts 2:38 says. So, if baptism …
Great Themes from Acts: Salvation
By Tom Roberts The ministry of Jesus was inextricably connected to salvation. In fact, the very name given to him by the angel of God, “Jesus” (Lk. 1:31), is of Hebrew origin (Joshua) meaning: “Jehovah is Savior.” As Joseph was told, “it is he that shall save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). Not a …