Teach Your Children Before The Schools Do

By Randall Bartley There is a nationwide debate going on in colleges and high schools today. One side of the debate feels that schools must fill the void of shattered homes, instilling self-esteem and teaching values. Joycelyn Elders, recently removed Surgeon General, believed that sex education should be taught as early as kindergarten. Maybe she’s right. …

The Ingredients of a 15 Minute Sermon

By Dennis Gullege Did you hear about the Baptist preacher recently who decided to cut his religious services down to 22 minutes and issued it as a challenge to see if people would be bold enough to “receive their religion in small doses.” He wanted to do for his preaching what McDonalds has done for food …

Rejoicing in the Work of the Lord!

By Harry Persaud Paul wrote Philippians from the Roman jail where he was imprisoned for the gospel’s sake. He rejoiced in spite of much opposition and persecution because “Christ is preached” (Phil. 1:7, 18). Knowing his brethren at Philippi would suffer “the same conflict,” he taught them to be al-ways “in nothing terrified by your adversaries,” …