By Edward O. Bragwell, Sr. “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching” (2 Tim. 4:2, NKJV). It has been almost fifty years since I first became a Christian and a little over forty of those years have been spent in “full-time” preaching. In these …
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By George Harris God’s religion has never required passivism but rather activism. Anyone who wishes his Christianity to be passive, not requiring anything from him, such as salvation by faith only, not only misunderstands the word of God, but his religion is vain. Introduction The Bible is the inspired, infallible, inerrant word of God. It is …
By Phil T. Arnold I was surprisingly pleased to see the cover story of an issue of Newsweek magazine (May 12, 1997) entitled, “The Myth of Quality Time: How We’re Cheating Our Kids, What You Can Do.” Much of what it contains drives home the simple and obvious point children and the home are a …
By Donnie V. Rader Influence is defined as, “a power indirectly or intangibly affecting a person or a course of events” (American Heritage Dictionary, 660). We all have influence and we all are influenced. In the most notable sermon that Jesus preached in Galilee, he spoke of the influence that Christians would have on the world …
