By Ken Weliever “I have tried to examine in the New Testament, and in the Old Testament, the great preaching of both the prophets of the Old and the apostles and evangelists of the New. And if I am asked to condense into words the essentials of a sermon, I do it with these three: Truth, …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Our Nation’s Misplaced Values
By Lewis Willis Art Linkletter, noted author, lecturer and television personality, gained much of his fame telling the funny things that kids said and did. His name became a household word. Most people readily identified the source of many of those funny things kids said and did. They came from parents! For some reason the silliness …
Have Ye Not Read?
By Hoyt Houchen Question: Please explain 2 Peter 3:10. Is it literal? If literal, then heaven will also pass away. Reply: 2 Peter 3:10 says: “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent …
Prayer In Our Fight Against Temptation
By John A. Smith In the beautiful and poetic instructive prayer of Jesus in Matthew 6, disciples are called upon to use prayer in their fight against temptation: “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (v. 13a). We may not always easily discern the relation between prayer and our ability to …