By John Haley, Jr. M.D. On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that unborn humans were not legal “persons.” The out shoot of this decision was the inevitable philosophy that an unborn child is the property of the owner (mother) and, at her request, the pregnancy can be terminated at any time until birth. …
Yearly Archives: 2012
The Holy Spirit’s Work (No. 3): Miraculous Powers No Longer Needed
By Johnny Stringer As we demonstrated in the preceding article, with the one exceptional case of Cornelius, the only Christians to receive miraculous spiritual endowments were the apostles and those on whom the apostles laid their hands. This leads us to conclude that the miraculous endowments would cease after the death of the apostles and those …
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A Saint Is Dead: Bob Richardson, Beatrice Nebraska
By William C. Sexton In 1966, I moved to St. Joseph, Missouri to work with the 10th and Lincoln street church of Christ. Shortly thereafter, I learned that a couple of families had moved to Beatrice, Nebraska. Upon my inquiry, I found that one of them was Bob and Viola Richardson, one son and two daughters. …
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God Supplies Man’s Needs
By Jady W. Copeland Man was created a being with physical, mental, psychological and spiritual needs. He was not created like the lower animals, but in the “image of God” and with the characteristics of God. From the dust of the ground God made the body of Adam (Gen. 2:7) and “breathed into his nostrils the …