By John A. Smith Negative Influence Of Their Peers To overcome negative peer pressure the young person must begin with the right mental attitude. 1. Expect that it will come. Do not be so naive as to think that it will not affect you. 2. Determine to resist it. Without a firm resolve to resist the …
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By Anthony Wayne Goforth Recently, a family left the congregation of which they had been members, under less than favorable circumstances. When their loving congregation, believing they should “have the same concern one for the other” (1 Cor. 12:25), sought to take steps to correct the matter, the family simply fled to another congregation where they …
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By Wallace H. Little George W. Cornell, a religious writer for the Associated Press, recently wrote: Scholars Seek True Words of Jesus. His article discussed Robert Funk and his “Jesus Seminar” deciding which New Testament words “Jesus actually spoke.” Can such arrogance do this? Dare created man pit his puny intellect against creating Divinity’s omniscience? These …
By Raymond E. Harris Thus far in this study of Holy Spirit baptism, we have discussed the action, the element, the agent and the subjects. We have learned that the action of baptizing is always “dipping.” The element in this case is the Holy Spirit. The agent or administrator of Holy Spirit baptism was always Deity …
