By Robert F. Turner Every conscientious gospel preacher with some years of experience has faced the troubling decision about very young people who ask to be baptized. We are happy to see them walk resolutely down the aisle; our hearts are warmed by their innocent confidence; we feel a tie to our own childhood as we …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
No Elders – No Preachers
By Frank Jamerson Recently I visited a brother who had decided that he could not worship with a congregation because preachers misunderstood the Bible and would not agree with his ideas. In fact, he had decided that it was wrong to have preachers at all! He asked me if I was a preacher “sent” by God …
The Conversion Of Lydia
By Mike Willis And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thystim, which worshiped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me …
Have Ye Not Read?
By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: Please explain Isaiah 45:7 where God says, “I create evil. ” Does not only good come from God? Reply: We read in Isaiah 45:7: “1 form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.” This verse raises the question: did …