By Harold E. Turner It may just be my imagination (naturally I don’t think so) that all of a sudden the word “traditional” has taken on an air of something sinister or at least something for sure suspect. If you happen to be running around the country preaching and teaching the “traditional” about a matter, you …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Is Truth Relative?
By Larry Ray Halfey Some are teaching that truth is subjective, relative and unobtainable. Men, it is said, cannot understand the Scriptures. Scripture is not our pattern, our guide, neither indeed can be. It is not in man that walketh to discern truth, nor is it necessary to do so, or so it is being argued. …
Did You Truly Repent?
By Brooks Cochran “Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priest and elders, saying I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood” (Matt. 27:3-4a). None will doubt the importance of repentance. The Bible repeatedly states that one …
The Ad Says It All! Butterick
By Anonymous A few years ago a preacher’s daughter won the Miss Universe bathing beauty contest. A newspaper reporter asked the girls’ mother concerning the bathing suit competition, “How do you reconcile your daughter’s being in the bathing suit contest with the religion which her father preaches?” The mother looked him straight in the eye and …