By Doug Lancaster One of the more obscure of the world’s religions is Jainism. This system of thinking is not as common to the ear as Hinduism or Buddhism, yet it is the oldest personally founded religion in India. Presently, there are around 1,300,000 Jains. Their beliefs are exclusively Indian, since they are a non-competitive people …
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Sikhism
By Randy Pickup Sikhism (pronounced “seek-ism”) is one of five major religions to be linked to the greatly populated country of India. Islam (the Muslim or Mohammedan faith) has the second largest number of followers in India, while Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, like Silkhism, all originated in the country. According to the most recent account I …
The Road to Troas
By Larry Ray Hafley Later in the life of Paul, we will find the road to Rome fraught with doubt and danger, but the road to Troas was a first perplexity. Troas was the threshold of the “Macedonian call.” It was the prelude to the planting of the gospel seed in Europe. It was the Spirit’s …
“Footnotes”
By Steve Wolfgang Footnote 21 “Burnett’s Budget,” Gospel Advocate, XXXV11 (July 4, 1895), 419. “Last week about a hundred preachers and fashionable women assembled at Gainesville, Texas, in a state convention, and wasted enough of the Lord’s money and time to have held a hundred protracted meetings, and converted a thousand sinners. They also spent enough …