By Jerry Fite Jeremiah began his prophetic work in the thirteenth year of Josiah’s reign. As a youthful Josiah wielded kingly force to tear down idols, young Jeremiah applied moral persuasion to eliminate the idolatrous heart. Despite forty years of exposure to Jeremiah’s preaching, Judah’s heart did not change. One will not find Jeremiah’s name among …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Preaching Like John the Baptist
By Warner Robins “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord” (Lk. 1:17). John the Baptist was no city slicker. He, from an early age, dwelt …
Postfixed Divorces
By Edward O. Bragwell, Sr. In grammar, a postfix (or suffix) is “a sound, syllable, or syllables added at the end of a word or word base to change its meaning, give it grammatical function, or form a new word” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language 1457). It occurs to me that postfixing (to …
The Continuing Apostasy of Liberalism
By Harry R. Osbourne The following article by Wayne Jackson is reprinted from Christian Courier, a paper published by our liberal brethren, regarding some of the current teaching done by some of the most extreme preachers among them. As you read the article, ask yourself a few questions. Where did such apostasy begin? What approach is …