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An Explanation????
“A word of explanation is due the church. This concerns my absence from the pulpit last Sunday Morning. I had not anticipated the uproar it caused among members. I know that once you hear the circumstances, though, that you will fully understand. I had really intended to be present, but Saturday afternoon a whole carload of my wife’s folks pulled into the driveway. It had been more than a year since we had sent hem, so we hurriedly packed a picnic supper and headed for the lake. We were after dark getting back. “I remembered...Continue reading
Look Out!
When one takes their driving test, there is a section on the test that deals with road signs. There are many different kinds of road signs. Around here lately we have had our share of road signs that are warning signs. Some are on I-75; some have been on I-475, some on our surface roads (like the ones on Houston Road.). We must heed these warnings or pay the consequences. One such sign would be that a bridge is out. If one traveled the road that had this kind of sign on it, and did...Continue reading
Explicit and Implicit Authority
Ray Dutton In John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Here Jesus stated “explicitly” (by the very words) that no one can come to the Father except by him. “Implicitly” (not in exact words) He said that it is impossible to come to the Father by Buddha or Mohammed. The implications of God’s teaching are just as true and binding as the explicit statements, but false teachers deny this fact. They have long tried to justify their additions to God’s...Continue reading
Misconceptions of Godly Parenting
Barry Gilreath, Jr. One of the wisest men to ever live once wrote, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). But it is the training that we as parents so often struggle with. We are so bombarded by humanistic, worldly, parenting philosophies that many Christian parents are confused about how to bring their children up in the love and admonition of the Lord (Eph. 6:4). And just as misconceptions have arisen in the denominational world concerning the Lord’s...Continue reading
The Shame of Nakedness 2
Wayne Jones Editor’s Note: this is a continuation from last week’s bulleting. I do hope this is informative and that it is applied to one’s live. How can I violate God’s Divine Dress Code? Certainly, there must be exceptions to nakedness, shame, and God’s dress code.” One understandable exception is found in the relationship between husband and wife. The writer of Hebrews stated: “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled…” (Heb. 13:4). Other exceptions might include the relationship between a doctor and patient or child to parent when the situations demand such. However,...Continue reading
The Shame of Nakedness
The Shame of Nakedness Wayne Jones John warned us to “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). The world to which John refers in this verse is not the physical earth or even the souls that make up the world around us. John uses the word cosmos which indicates a “system or an order.” For example, we often refer to the “world of business” or the “world of sports.” It is a sphere that has its own agenda and philosophy. This “world” that we are forbidden to...Continue reading
Walking by Faith
In the midst of Paul’s discussion of our putting off this fleshly tabernacle and our being clothed with our house that is from heaven, we find this simple law: “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7). This principle should govern our daily lives, regardless of the circumstance. Too many, even supposed Christians, do not follow this rule of conduct. The end result of such a course is disaster of the worst kind to oneself as well as others. The failure to observe this rule is illustrated by the recent tragic deaths...Continue reading
Should Women Take the Lead?
SHOULD WOMEN TAKE THE LEAD? Richard Stevens III Women leading men in the home and spiritually is an agenda supported and promoted throughout our country. But have they reasoned correctly? Should women take the lead… In the home? Men and women are equal spiritually in the sight of God, “neither male nor female: for ye are all on in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28), but we are assigned different roles. Women were created as a “help meet,” helper of man (Gen. 2:8). “Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man”...Continue reading
Religious Rigor Mortis
Religious Rigor Mortis Sam Dilbeck When Christians do not pray, study and grow (outside the worship or class setting), they are openly declaring their religious rigor mortis. Rigor mortis is a postmortem condition in which the muscle tissue chemically changes and stiffens. It is a gruesome symbol of death and has earned the deceased the nickname Stiff. God’s church sometimes witnesses rigor mortis in local churches and individual Christians. When churches fail to grow and be active, they show signs of religious rigor mortis. The mission of the church is three fold: evangelism, benevolence,...Continue reading
“His Own Place”
“HIS OWN PLACE” Winfred Clark, deceased To those who read the Bible this phrase will be familiar. They will remember that it is found in the book of Acts. It is there that Peter was describing the betrayal act of Judas and the consequences of such as act. Notice, “That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place” (Acts 1:25). One could well say that he went to the place of his own choosing. He went where such characters...Continue reading