By Tom M. Roberts Beggars are an uncommon sight in America. Though it is true that we have problems with the homeless, unemployed and poor in our nation, there are the safety nets of food stamps, shelters, welfare support and multitudes of charitable and religious organizations that operate twenty-four hours a day and three hundred sixty-five …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
When I Survey The Cross: Singing With Understanding
By Dennis Abernathy “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” was written by Isaac Watts in 1707 and first appeared in Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Its original title was “Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ.” Isaac Watts was born on July 17, 1674, in Southhampton, England and was the eldest of nine children. He …
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Living With Infirmity
By Robert Wayne LaCoste The righteous Job declared, “Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble” (Job 14:1). Trouble; yes, it is inevitable. Jesus sought to soothe the aching heart that possessed it, “Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me” (Jn. 14: 1). …
Opportunity to Return
By William V. Beasley Four heros of faith (Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob) were in the mind of the Hebrew writer when he wrote: “And if indeed they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return” (Heb. 11:15). Since Abraham was the first to receive the …