By Harry R. Osborne Have you gone to the worship services of various churches? There is an amazing variety among them. In fact, there is so much variety that one wonders how so many practices could come from people supposedly following the same book, the Bible. The obvious fact is that they do not follow the …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Gleanings From Genesis: The Story of Lot
By Wayne S. Walker The word of God contains many excellent examples of faith and righteousness – consider, for example, the lives of Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Peter, and Paul, as well as the perfect life of Jesus Christ. The Bible also pictures several negative examples – illustrations of what God does not want us to …
The Individual And Society
By Larry Ray Hafley The article by Thomas Sowell which follows below is, to use the vernacular of the day, “Right on.” Mr. Sowell “is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in Stanford, California.” Personal accountability, hence, personal responsibility, is lacking, but is much needed in the world today as …
Restricting the Communion
By Donald P. Ames A problem that has a tendency to crop up every once in awhile is the effort to restrict those who are to be allowed to partake of the communion, or Lord’s Supper. Usually this is done with one of two approaches: (1) the concept of “closed communion,” or (2) challenging whether or …