By Steve Wolfgang Footnote, Helen Parmley, “Southern Baptists Rest Paid Ministers,” Lexington Herald-Leader, Oct. 12, 1987, p. A- 1. DALLAS – Dallas churches pay their senior ministers more than any other city in the country. And the nation’s highest paid minister is a Southern Baptist pastor in Dallas whose total annual compensation is $149,150. A survey …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Biography Of Jesus
By Don Martin A study of different biographies can be most rewarding. The word “biography” is a compound word from the Greek consisting of bio, meaning life and graphe, meaning to write or a writing. Hence “biography” means a writing of someone’s life. I immensely enjoy reading the biography of George Washington Carver. Mr. Carver was …
Can We Forgive Adultery?
By Robert F. Turner The sin of adultery is wide spread; and preaching salvation in Christ necessarily involves telling people guilty of adultery how they can be forgiven. “Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers . . . shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye were washed, …
The Church In God’s Purpose
By Garreth L. Clair The Church was in the purpose of God as early as the birth of Saul of Tarsus (i.e. Paul the apostle to the Gentiles). In connection with this fact please observe the statement by the great apostle in Galatians 1: 15,16, “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s …