By Bob Dickey He was young and exuberant, and I immediately admired his apparent zeal. Having just learned that I was a preacher in the Indianapolis area, he said, “I’m a Christian, too, but I guess you guys think of us as digressive.” We exchanged handshakes and pleasantries, then I returned to his opening statement and …
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By Tom M. Roberts The apostle John envisioned two kinds of fellowship when he wrote his epistles. When he spoke of having “fellowship with us” and “fellowship with one with another,” John had reference to the kind of fellowship between brethren in Christ (1 John 1:3, 7). But he also spoke of “fellowship with the Father, …
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By Harry R. Osborne In Nehemiah 8, the people of Israel who had returned from the captivity assembled to hear the law. They were not reluctant hearers, but attentive recipients of the word. In-deed, the text says that “the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law” as Ezra spoke from …
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By Connie W. Adams When Truth Magazine began in the fall of 1956, the sponsoring church issue had been brewing since shortly after the end of World War II. As American servicemen came home from Europe and the Pacific with images of the horrors of war stamped in their minds, a new wave of evangelistic fervor …
