By Hoyt Houchen Question: Is smoking a sin in the sight of God? Reply: Medical reports show that cigarette smoking is one of the nation’s leading killers. An are familiar with the statement issued by the Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force: “The ever-increasing evidence linking cigarette smoking with lung cancer, pulmonary diseases, cardio-vascular diseases, …
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The Logic Of The Plan Of Salvation
By Tom Roberts How fortunate we are that our scientists do not approach medicine, research, physics, etc., with the utter abandon of reason that characterizes the study of religion. Surely a return to the Dark Ages would be imminent if scientists worked in their fields as do people with the word of God. How slowly, if …
Sponsoring Elders And Institutionalism (2): Hierarchism
By Leo Rogol I will use quotations from Brinsmead’s work in which he points out the unscriptural arrangements of church organization and institutionalism. I will then make a comparison between his attack on the Adventist structure and the liberal practices among churches of Christ. I will also deal Campaigns for Christ because they too are involved …
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“Satan Will Sift Us”
By Tom Roberts “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat. but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren” (Lk. 22:31-32). These are chilling words indeed. They show the reality of Satan’s desire to …