By A. C. Grider Recently I started a sermon with this paragraph: “As you know, I am given to some levity in the pulpit. It is a matter of judgment if this is advisable or not. I think some of it is all right or I would not engage in it. One thing is certain, you …
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THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION
By Larry Ray Hafley QUESTION: From Ohio: “According to the Scriptures; God demands perfection or near perfection from His subjects. When God destroyed the earth with the flood (except for Noah and his family), why didn’t He destroy Satan and all other evils and bring in this perfect environment we hear about?” REPLY: This question has …
Nature Declares: “There Is a God!”
By Luther Blackmon Everywhere we see evidence of design, planning, contrivance. Even in the animal world about us we see this. For example, there are some fowls, like the chicken, which have a crop (craw) where food is ground or prepared for preliminary maceration. These eat mostly grain and seeds of various kinds. Then there are …
How Persons are Made Believers
By Cecil Willis Last week in our lesson we pointed out the necessity of man having faith in his heart in order to be saved. Without faith one cannot receive the remission of his sins, he cannot live the life that God intends that he live here in the flesh, nor can he enter heaven in …