By Clint Springer Armageddon has become a scare word! It is likely that every average person equates the word with the final great war extinction or annihilation that being true whether that person is religious or otherwise. It conjures up thoughts of thermonuclear warfare with no place on earth to hide. In Old Testament …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
A Worm in an Apple
By Louis J. Sharp How does a worm get inside an apple? Perhaps you think the worm burrows in from the outside. No, scientists have discovered that the worm comes from the inside. But, how does he get there? Simple. An insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the …
Balanced Christianity
By Joe R. Price Much is being said these days about a balanced approach to Christianity. Appeals for balanced approaches to preaching and to general Christian living are heard among us. Such scripturally based appeals are always appropriate, needed, and appreciated. Ecclesiastes 7:15-18 teaches we should find the “golden mean” of life by avoiding self-righteousness, conceit, …
Getting By With It
By Robert F. Turner “He got by with it!” That colloquial expression means that he was caught. He thinks he “got by with it,” but this is never true. The one who makes the statement knows better, and has already changed his opinion of the one who tried to “get by with it.” There is very …