By Morris Hafley We have left the holidays behind us, the days of “Season’s Greetings,” and we now come to the days we could call “Season’s Meetings.” It is the time when you hear Christians say, “You could attend a meeting somewhere every night for weeks.” This is especially true for those who live near or …
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Salt Of The Earth
By Tom Roberts Introduction: A common object is often taken as “commonplace” while it actually has tremendous importance in life. Such an object is salt. As a preservative, its use from ancient to modern times is constant. Jesus used its importance to illustrate a spiritual principle about righteousness (Mt. 5:13; Mk. 9:50; Lk. 14:34). A. We …
Singing Praise To God And Teaching Man
By S. Leonard Tyler Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:19, in contrast to being drunken with wine, “But be filled with the Spirit,” and in Colossians 3:16, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,” which means when combined: Allow the teaching of the Spirit to fill you heart, guide your thinking, control your speech, direct …
Heard Any “Good News” Lately?
By W. Frank Walton The phone rings late at night. We tense up, fearing bad news: “Oh no, what’s happened?” News reports bombard us with depressing regularity of this world’s harsh realities and tragic problems. Is “no news good news”? There is eternal good news that needs to be shouted from the housetops. The gospel means …