By B.G. Echols Receiving the word of God must be accompanied or preceded by a putting away of all wickedness. “Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls” (James 1:21). “Putting away” is the word used for taking off filthy clothes. Here …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Another News Item
By Brooks Cochran The following news item appeared recently in the Gospel Advocate: Bud Bayless, 3408 Carrington Street, Tampa, Fla. 33611. Following a year of graduate study in Speech at Ohio University, I am now at Manhattan Avenue, Tampa, Fla. This church recently hosted the Tampa Area Youth Meeting with John Waddey speaking four times on …
He Who Knows Not
By Irven Lee In my high school days, my biology teacher kept some brief expressions of wisdom written on a small section of blackboard that was near the ceiling on the front wall of his class room. He left some of them there for several weeks before he would replace them with others. Five decades and …
And They Call It `Legalism’
By Dudley Ross Spears Have you ever heard someone define and discuss “legalism” in religion? What definition can you remember that was given? Was “legalism” dealt with as a disease or a blessed virtue? I am sure that the answers to these questions depend on the pre-disposition of the one who dealt with “legalism” in religion. …