By Marvin Taylor What faith! What courage! Even the mention of Stephen’s name elicits our admiration of this first martyr (excluding Jesus himself) for the cause of Christianity. The conflict started in the heated anger of public debate and continued in a scene of mob violence. Stephen’s clear presentation of truth evoked the worst actions from …
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The Foolishness of Preaching
By Chad R. Wadlington “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” (1 Cor. 1:21, KJV). There are times in our reading of the Bible we come upon a verse or phrase that gives us some …
“Before And After Faith”
By Johnie Edwards There is lot of religious confusion because people do not understand the phrase, “Before And After Faith Came.” The passage containing the phrase says, “But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should after-wards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us …
The Abomination Of Desolation
By Raymond E. Warfel, Sr. Several parts of the Bible are misunderstood, misused, and abused but none more so than Matthew 24 and 25. We have those today who claim these things are yet to be fulfilled in the future or soon to be fulfilled in our time. They come to these chapters and declare that …