By O. C. Birdwell My father-in-law would often tell a story about a farmer he knew during the depression days. The man farmed with mules, and being very poor, had little to feed them. He would dump a bucket of anything available (often during the summer, a bucket of peaches) into the feed trough and say …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Stabilizing the New Convert
By Brian V. Sullivan Thirty-one baptized at 4th and 6th Street. Twenty-one at Route 3, Anywhere. Fourteen at Hendrick Street. Beautiful to think about, aren’t they? It would be a cold, cold heart that would not rejoice over such progress being made in proclaiming the precious gospel and such increases being given. Yet, how many of …
Finding Contacts
By Peter McPherson We Find What We Want To Find When a man wants to get married, he ` findeth a wife” (Prow. 18:22). When we want to do something, “thy hand findeth” it to do (Eccl. 9:10). If we are after a certain thing, it is usually true that “he that seeketh findeth” (Mt. 7:8). …
“In the Same Hour of the Night”: The Single Lesson Approach to Personal Evangelism”
By Charles G. Goodall Those who have been involved for any length of time in personal work generally agree that the traits required for one to be a successful personal evangelist are a love for souls, a means of teaching the gospel, and a zeal to implement that means. When a man is found with that …