By Wm. E. Wallace In early America, great swells of rebellion from innovation and error formed into a mighty movement back to the Bible. In New England, Abner Jones and Elias Smith rebelled from the Baptists; in Virginia James O’Kelley turned away from the Methodists; in Kentucky Barton W. Stone forsook the Presbyterians; in Pennsylvania the …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Preaching the Word
By Earl Kimbrough The last days of the apostle Paul were spent in a Roman prison awaiting death under the wicked emperor Nero. Not long before his death, the apostle wrote his second letter to Timothy. This was the last of Paul’s apostolic letters, and in it he shows that he was gravely concerned about the …
What Is Truth? (1)
By Morris W. R. Bailey “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am king. To this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth my …
Baptism – What It Will Do
By Foy W. Vinson There are many things that baptism will not do. It doesn’t change one’s heart, remove temptation, guarantee a sinless life or guarantee eternal life. And yet at the same time there are some things which baptism will do. Modern denominationalism has been almost entirely negative in its treatment of baptism to the …