By Robert Wayne LaCoste A loophole” is defined as “a means of evading something unpleasant.” (Webster’s New World Dictionary, p. 443). Human nature is such that people will go to almost any extreme to avoid the unpleasant, even if their action turns out in the long run to cause more severe unpleasantness. We see this often …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Mother of God
By Steve Kearney The Scriptures forthrightly teach that Mary is the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. “And the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus’” (Lk. 1:30-31). It …
From Heaven Or From Men
By Clinton D. Hamilton Question: In view of all religious division, how can we attain and maintain unity upon the “one faith”? Why is true unity so difficult? Reply: The “one faith” is the body of truth once and for all revealed (Jude 3) and is the faith Paul mentioned in Galatians 3:23. Unity is attained …
“Footnotes”
By Steve Wolfgang Footnote: “None Are So Blind As Those Who Will Not See,” Gospel Advocate, XX (January 3, 1878), 6-7. Upon reading about a Chinese mother who disfigured the feet of her little girl, Justus M. Barnes, a pioneer preacher in Alabama, wrote: “I know a clever, good girl, who has driven the color from …