By J. David Lawrence Competent psychiatrists should be lauded. However, not infrequently we hear of a psychiatrist leveling an attack against Christianity on the grounds that it is a contributing factor to mental illness. This is an unfair accusation, and reveals the doctor’s ignorance of the gospel; but often he may influence an individual to forsake …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Translation of Acts 2:38 By Baptist Schools and Scholars
By Luther W. Martin We have yet to locate a single Baptist scholar of New Testament Greek, the koine Greek in which the New Testament was originally written, who will turn his back upon his learning and scholarship, in order to wrest the meaning of Acts 2:38. It is not unusual to hear of individual Baptist …
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Principles and Personalities
By Bryan Vinson, Sr. A proper distinction, action, is necessary in both in thought and all matters wherein truth and error are in combat, between the persons involved and the principles being defended and opposed. Unhappily, the easy and, therefore, the frequently selected course of many is to decide where to stand solely out of regard …
We Are Growing – Are We Staying Pure?
By Mel Myers In the midst of a great growth of the churches of Christ, we must be doubly cautious. We can lose all the ground we have gained, if we relax our vigilance. There are some fundamentals we must not forget: (1) We must not forget that the gospel is “the power of God unto …