By Aude McKee When I was a boy, the phrase that makes the title for this article was heard with some frequency. Brethren often inquired then, as they do now, “How is the work going where you live?” Then the answer would sometimes come, “Well, we are keeping house for the Lord.” Those who used the …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
The Church as a Functioning Body
By Mike Willis In our concern for evangelism, we need to be certain that the church is functioning in the manner that God designed that it should. When the church is doing the work that God wants it to do in the way that God planned for it to do it, the work of evangelism will …
What did Paul find at Corinth?
By Irvin Himmel It was on his second great journey that the apostle Paul came to Corinth. What did he find during the year and six months that he remained in that important commercial center? First, he found a Jew and his wife who were tentmakers by trade. Paul abode with Aquila and Priscilla because he …
Maximum, Not Minimum
By Jimmy Tuten, Jr. Under the Old Testament the law of giving for the Jews was in terms of percentages. Of his income, he was to give a tithe of 10 ofp (Deut. 14:22-27). Under the New Testament our giving is not regulated in terms or percentages, but in terms of liberality. We must first give …