By Dan King The book of Revelation heralds the ruthless persecution of the church of Christ at the hands of imperial Rome. If written about 95-6 AD, as is usually (and, I believe, correctly) surmised, it falls in the second period of intense Roman suppression of the Christians, and thus in the reign of the cruel …
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My Brother Mac
By Peter McPherson The 30th anniversary of the death of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy was remembered this past November, 1993. To those of us living in 1963 the untimely death of this impressive, energetic, intelligent and youthful man was a hurtful blow. The newscasters’ voices quivered in announcing it, the …
Positive Speech: The Language of Ecumenism
By Steven Wallace Many people are enamored with positive speech and preaching that is only positive. Because of the nature of the latter, it offends almost no one. In fact, most people enjoy it. Positive preaching’s general acceptability can be seen in that one could take many positive sermons and preach them with little or no …
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Editorial Left-Overs
By Connie W. Adams It is urgent that congregations develop and maintain a good program for teaching the Bible to all age levels. Some congregations work very hard at this while others drift from quarter to quarter or year to year with no well defined goals and little attention to obtaining those goals. The primary objective …