By Randy Pickup Sikhism (pronounced “seek-ism”) is one of five major religions to be linked to the greatly populated country of India. Islam (the Muslim or Mohammedan faith) has the second largest number of followers in India, while Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, like Silkhism, all originated in the country. According to the most recent account I …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
The Road to Troas
By Larry Ray Hafley Later in the life of Paul, we will find the road to Rome fraught with doubt and danger, but the road to Troas was a first perplexity. Troas was the threshold of the “Macedonian call.” It was the prelude to the planting of the gospel seed in Europe. It was the Spirit’s …
“Footnotes”
By Steve Wolfgang Footnote 21 “Burnett’s Budget,” Gospel Advocate, XXXV11 (July 4, 1895), 419. “Last week about a hundred preachers and fashionable women assembled at Gainesville, Texas, in a state convention, and wasted enough of the Lord’s money and time to have held a hundred protracted meetings, and converted a thousand sinners. They also spent enough …
Never Looking Back
By Jon Quinn “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built,- but on the day that Lot went out to Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. . . Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to save his …