By Bryan Vinson, Sr. While reflecting on the magnitude of creation the Psalmist was constrained to exclaim, “When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers, and the stars which thou has ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitest him?” This is not a …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
The Perverseness of Man
By Luther Blackmon Any reputable doctor will tell you that the only safe way to lose weight and control it is through diet. Control your appetite. But people like to eat. Especially fat people. So they take reducing pills, ride bicycles, go to health clubs that provide strenuous exercises, and they stuff themselves with fattening foods. …
Baptism – What It Won’t Do
By Foy W. Vinson I suppose that the subject of baptism is the most highly controverted of all the themes mentioned in the New Testament. Often discussions on this theme are attended with great passion or emotion and from the seemingly endless and fruitless arguments arising therefrom it would appear, at least to the casual observer, …
The Neglected Truths of James 1:27
By Robert H. West “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” The above passage has figured very prominently in the current controversy concerning benevolent institutions. Some brethren contend that this passage is authority for the …