By Luke P. Flynn Not too long ago, I happened to be speaking to a gentleman on the phone who claimed to be a Christian and a member of the Lord’s church. In the process of our conversation he had related to me his experiences while living in the South. He said that he was once …
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Young People Need “No Skills” (9): Helping Young People Overcome Sexual Pressure
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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Church Discipline & the Granting of Asylum
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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Jesus’ Words and Revisionists
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 …