By Don Wright When someone is going to argue something in an attempt to prove a point, it is best if he has some facts to substantiate his claim. A fact is simply a piece of information presented as having objective reality, i.e., it is an actual truth. Some people, however, do not like facts, …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Don’t Be Reluctant to Exhort!
From an Old Preacher’s Journal Yes, it has been nearly forty years. I think back to a Gospel Meeting. The little congregation of twenty-five or thirty souls met in a typical white frame building so common in those days. It was not quite the middle of September, but fall came early that year. There was …
Causes of Divorce
By James Hahn While living in the St. Louis area a few years ago I read an article in the local newspaper which stated that the divorce rate in the United States was “leveling off” at the rate of about one in every two marriages ending in divorce. With this kind of “leveling off” we do not …
Autonomy, Another Umbrella For Error
By Larry Ray Hafley Error and its advocates seek shelter from attacks of truth. Numberless ways have been manufactured to protect the practice and practitioners of error. In the last decade or so of the last century, we had Romans 14 thrust in our faces as a shield. “You can’t chasten me; you can’t challenge …