How Do I Live In This Mess?
by Dale Smelser
What Happens To Innocence?
What happens to ten-year-old girls in sweet dresses and pretty hair showing the loving attention of a mother? Charming smiles are shy or vivacious. Laughter lilts. But in two or three years the change is profound…
HOW DO I LIVE IN THIS MESS?
by H. Osby Weaver
THERE IS A LATIN PHRASE caveat emptor, meaning “let the buyer beware” or “that the buyer buys at his own risk,” Another similar one that runs parallel with it is caveat venditor or “let the seller beware.” So, it…
Something Borrowed
by L.R. Hester
Morality alone is not Christianity, but Christianity apart from moral purity is impossible. The Lord commands: “Be ye holy; for l am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). And; “Keep thyself pure” (1 Timothy 1:16).
Adherence to this charge calls for every possible precaution. One seldom, if…
My Brother / My Self
by Brent Lewis
The innate desire to keep self at the center of our beings is called pride Pride is insidious—the deadliest of all sins. It builds a barrier between men and God and is the catalyst for every problem between fellows. It separates the…
Heart Lines
by Paul Earnhart
In his final hours in Rome, awaiting an inevitable execution, a very lonely apostle Paul suffered some additional heartbreak. “Demas,” he wrote, “hath forsaken me, having loved this present world” (2 Timothy 4:10). We are left to speculate as to the particulars-what dread fears or…
Past, Present and Perfect
by Ed Harrell
In May, 1983 the Supreme Court revoked the tax-exempt status of two conservative schools, including Bob Jones University, because in the court’s opinion each practiced a form of racial discrimination. The ground for the decision was, basically, that a tax-exempt educational institution must…
by Brent Lewis
My Brother/My Self
We have seen that pride is at the root of all of one’s problems with brother or self. Pride receives a major defeat in our lives when we are converted to Christ — though it will be a factor to be reckoned with throughout…
Christianity Magazine, (Theme Editorial)
by Dee Bowman
God did great good when He created man, Man is unique among all of God’s creatures simply out of the fact that he is fitted to act from his own volition rather than from a law of necessity. Everything man does is only…
by Dee Bowman
I WAS MAKING MY HOSPITAL CALLS just like a good preacher ought to do. I left the hospital with a feeling of exultation— the kind that comes from knowing you have done what you’re supposed to do. As I drove out of the parking lot I said…
Something Borrowed
by Claude Holcomb
Notice a few things which Paul says about the duties of members:
“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one…
