By Thomas C. Hickey As a tall, skinny junior high school student in Rockwood, Tennessee, I was approached several times to play on the junior high basketball team. I wasn’t a bad player, and I was taller than most other kids in my age group. But I declined because I would not miss Wednesday night Bible …
Yearly Archives: 2012
The Believer In God
By Johnie Edwards The phrase “believer in God” is a descriptive term of all a child of God does in obeying God. Peter said, “Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God” (1 Pet. 1:21). The “believer …
The New Morality: It’s Failures and Fallacies (1)
By Dick Blackford The new morality may be a change from that of the former generation but it is not new. “The thing that has been, it is that which shall be. And that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof …
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Have Ye Not Read?
By Hoyt Houchen Question: What does Jesus mean in Matthew 23.24? How does this apply to us today? Reply: In Matthew 23, Jesus pronounced a series of woes upon the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees. He gave them a scathing rebuke because they would “say, and do not” (v. 3). They would bind heavy burdens upon others, …