By Tim Mize Most of us have heard all our lives about the cross of Christ. A week does not pass without our eating this bread and drinking this cup in its memory. It may surprise us, then, to learn how shocking it was to those who heard about it first. For those first audiences of …
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By Mike Willis When I was a lad, my parents ran a country store that sold gas, feed, groceries, and also housed the local post office. From the time I was old enough to be responsible, I worked in the store. I usually opened or help open the store about 6:00-6:30 a.m. in order that we …
By Larry Ray Hafley The chart on the next page introduces our theme. Our purpose in this article is expressed in these words, “But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion” (2 Cor. 11:12). Shadowy shoals of shame will shipwreck faith; unrevealed reefs will wreck …
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By Clinton D. Hamilton The expression “last days” is used frequently by denominational writers with some reference, most often, to a dispensational event or happening. Likewise, among the brethren, this term is debated as to its specific meaning. Some argue that it is basically used to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Others …
