By Luther Blackmon Any reputable doctor will tell you that the only safe way to lose weight and control it is through diet. Control your appetite. But people like to eat. Especially fat people. So they take reducing pills, ride bicycles, go to health clubs that provide strenuous exercises, and they stuff themselves with fattening foods. …
Yearly Archives: 2012
Baptism – What It Won’t Do
By Foy W. Vinson I suppose that the subject of baptism is the most highly controverted of all the themes mentioned in the New Testament. Often discussions on this theme are attended with great passion or emotion and from the seemingly endless and fruitless arguments arising therefrom it would appear, at least to the casual observer, …
The Neglected Truths of James 1:27
By Robert H. West “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” The above passage has figured very prominently in the current controversy concerning benevolent institutions. Some brethren contend that this passage is authority for the …
He That Overcometh
By Leslie Diestelkamp The purity of the church is a matter of vital concern to every true Christian. Many New Testament passages emphasize the necessity of such purity. The letters to the seven churches of Asia (Rev. 2 & 3) are most significant in portraying the Lord’s desires for the churches. Yet, in searching those seven …