By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: Does the Bible teach that social meals are apart of congregational fellowship? Reply: Meals, recreation and entertainment provided by the local church in the name of “fellowship” are a common practice in liberal churches. Before me is a bulletin in which the statement appears: “At least once per quarter we want …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Training Our Children
By Irven Lee The training of children is a heaven assigned responsibility for parents (Prov. 22:6; Eph. 6:4). If young people misbehave at any time there are some who make comments about schools, the church, the scouts, etc., and about their failure to train the children. These influential institutions do often fail to exert the proper …
The Word Of God: What It Should Be To Us
By Tommy L. McClure Introduction “My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou an my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: …
“Do You Dress Like A ‘Harlot’?”
By Thomas C. Hickey Bible students will recognize the question as a takeoff from the words of Proverbs 7:10, a passage which warns against the wiles of the immoral person who seeks to seduce another into the destruction of his soul. We now quote the entire passage: Proverbs 7:6-27 6 For at the window of my …