By Mike Willis Nearly every congregation among us is troubled by hit-and-miss attendance at worship. Some churches have as few as 50% of their Sun-day morning attendance back for their evening services and mid-week Bible studies. In some of the larger congregations, enough members do not return to Sunday evening services to constitute a pretty good …
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Applying the Lessons
By Andy Alexander David’s sin with Bathsheba supplies us with many valuable lessons. The temptations created by indecent dress or improper exposure of the body, the downward spiral of one who sins and tries to hide it, the consequences of sin, and the internal pain of the sinner who has a tender conscious toward God are …
Hatred: A Spiritual Malignancy
By Weldon E. Warnock “There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. There are hatreds of race; hatreds of sect; social and personal hatreds. If thoughts of hatred were thunder and lightning, there would be a storm over the whole earth all the year round” (Beecher). Hatred means …
Presiding over the Supper
By Don R. Freling Memorial Day is more special to some than others. “How soon they forget” is a thought verbalized by veterans of World War II as they observe Memorial Day ignorers. One veteran wrote about an amphibious landing on an island in the South Pacific. He recalled how the sea swarmed with landing barges …