By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: Please define and explain the meaning of faith in Hebrews 11:1. How do we develop greater, stronger faith? Reply: Faith needs to be properly understood because of its great need and also because so many do not understand what it is and when it saves or justifies. John expressed the importance …
Yearly Archives: 2012
The Dearthland
By James H. Shewmaker This is the northern midwest United States. None of these states has more than 10 sound congregations. I know of only one self-supporting church in these states. There are only 30 congregations in a 7 state region. The population of this area is about 11,159,335. The area consists of 599,783 square miles. …
The Occult: Fact Or Fiction?
By Ron Halbrook The occult includes all modem claims of demon activity, astrology or horoscopes, magic, divination, psychic phenomena, and necromancy or communication with 11the dead. God warned the Jews to accept the word of His inspired prophets and to reject all the false claims of occult powers in the heathen religions. Predictions failing to come …
Seventh Day Adventism
By Mark Mayberry Current Facts In 1981 the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, headquartered in Washington, D.C., had 3,668,000 members worldwide.(1) In recent years, their goal has been to add I million new members by 1985. Achieving this goal would have required an average of 1,000 daily converts. From their statistics, it appears that they succeeded. In 1985 they …