By Larry Ray Hafley You have heard of the recent suicides of religious cults in Canada and in southern California. Forty-four have died in the two suicide pacts. This number, tragic as it is, does not approach the 913 who followed the notorious Jim Jones in Guyana, in 1978. Unbelievers will paint all religious people with …
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Armageddon
By Clint Springer Armageddon has become a scare word! It is likely that every average person equates the word with the final great war extinction or annihilation that being true whether that person is religious or otherwise. It conjures up thoughts of thermonuclear warfare with no place on earth to hide. In Old Testament …
A Worm in an Apple
By Louis J. Sharp How does a worm get inside an apple? Perhaps you think the worm burrows in from the outside. No, scientists have discovered that the worm comes from the inside. But, how does he get there? Simple. An insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the …
Balanced Christianity
By Joe R. Price Much is being said these days about a balanced approach to Christianity. Appeals for balanced approaches to preaching and to general Christian living are heard among us. Such scripturally based appeals are always appropriate, needed, and appreciated. Ecclesiastes 7:15-18 teaches we should find the “golden mean” of life by avoiding self-righteousness, conceit, …