By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: Why do we not bow (kneel) in services? I want to do it but I feel that it might distract others. It would make me self-conscious because no one else does. Reply: God is much more interested in the posture of the heart than the posture of the body when we …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
A Vacant Chair
By James W. Adams Someone has said, “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.” On the same subject, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: Fame is the scentless sunflower,With gaudy crown of gold;But Friendship is the breathing rose,With sweets in every fold. Inspiration immortalizes Friendship by having recorded upon its pages the …
Reverence For God
By Dusty Owens There is a saying, “Familiarity breeds contempt.” Sometimes, the best of friends will become enemies because they spend so much time together. They begin to take one another for granted. Often, we grow weary of eating at the same restaurant, playing the same game, or wearing the same clothes. Whatever we do, we …
Joining With Other Disciples
By Daniel H. King When Paul made his way back to the city of Jerusalem in Acts 9:26, he was entering into a new phase of his life. According to the parallel material found in Galatians 1:17ff, he had spent some time preaching the gospel in Arabia and Damascus, some three years to be specific. It …