By Ron Halbrook The habits and customs associates with burying the dead vary from culture to culture and country to country. The range of differences includes superstitious rites and drunken feasts – everything on the spectrum from serious and pious to silly and pernicious. We live in a culture which permits, but does not dictate, funerals …
Yearly Archives: 2012
A Young Woman’s Cry: What Can I Do For Jesus
By Martha Ladyman The role of women in today’s society is in many ways different than in the days of the early church. And yet, while her role may have changed in the world, the role of the modem woman in the church is the same as that of her sister who lived many centuries ago. …
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Authority Elders Do Not Have
By Robert Wayne LaCoste No one has more respect for the office of an elder as described by Paul in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1, than I do. And while there are many concrete “rights” elders have allowances to exercise over a local church, there are some areas where they have no right to act …
Be Not Deceived
By Raymond E. Harris In I Corinthians 3:18, Paul wrote, “Let no man deceive himself.” Our English words “deceit and deceive” are translated from two Greek words apate and dolos. Apate means “to cheat, deceive or beguile; that which gives a false impression, whether by appearance, statement or influence.” Dolos means “a bait or snare, to …