By Jerry Crolius The National Center for Health Statistics says there were nearly 2.4 million weddings in 1988. Some 10.7 percent of these marriages were divorced men marrying never-married women, and 10.9 percent were marriages of divorced women to never-married men. (There were no figures reported in the article about how many marriages united a divorced …
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By Robert F. Turner A genuine “local church” has its beginning in the determination of individuals to put Christ absolutely first in their lives. Each one must make this decision, without regard to what anyone else may do. Service to the Lord according to one’s knowledge of the truth, must have precedence to all else. One …
By Tom M. Roberts Beggars are an uncommon sight in America. Though it is true that we have problems with the homeless, unemployed and poor in our nation, there are the safety nets of food stamps, shelters, welfare support and multitudes of charitable and religious organizations that operate twenty-four hours a day and three hundred sixty-five …
By Dennis Abernathy “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” was written by Isaac Watts in 1707 and first appeared in Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Its original title was “Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ.” Isaac Watts was born on July 17, 1674, in Southhampton, England and was the eldest of nine children. He …
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