By Tom Roberts Introduction: A common object is often taken as “commonplace” while it actually has tremendous importance in life. Such an object is salt. As a preservative, its use from ancient to modern times is constant. Jesus used its importance to illustrate a spiritual principle about righteousness (Mt. 5:13; Mk. 9:50; Lk. 14:34). A. We …
Yearly Archives: 2012
Singing Praise To God And Teaching Man
By S. Leonard Tyler Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:19, in contrast to being drunken with wine, “But be filled with the Spirit,” and in Colossians 3:16, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,” which means when combined: Allow the teaching of the Spirit to fill you heart, guide your thinking, control your speech, direct …
Heard Any “Good News” Lately?
By W. Frank Walton The phone rings late at night. We tense up, fearing bad news: “Oh no, what’s happened?” News reports bombard us with depressing regularity of this world’s harsh realities and tragic problems. Is “no news good news”? There is eternal good news that needs to be shouted from the housetops. The gospel means …
Are We Like Jesus . . . In Our Attitude Toward The Scriptures?
By Don Givens Jesus gave complete and unreserved endorsement to the old covenant Scriptures (Matt. 5:17,18; John 10:35) and said that He did not come to destroy, deny or fight against them, but to fulfil them. Our Lord quoted extensively from the old Testament and referred to its people and stories as historical fact. Jesus upheld …
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