By Ron Halbrook Though gambling has become socially acceptable and legal, it is not right according to what God teaches us in the Bible. God teaches us to love him with all the heart, mind, and soul, and to love our fellowman as we love ourselves (Matt. 22:37-40). Everything else God teaches us depends on …
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Kenneth R. Hoyle: My Friend (1927 – 1998)
By Truman Smith If my memory serves me right, it was in 1957, while I was preaching for the Lacey Lakeview Church of Christ in Waco, Texas that I first met Kenneth and Sammie Hoyle. While Kenneth had been preaching full time for some five years prior to that time, he and Sammie had moved …
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Fleshly Relatives: Delight or Dilemma?
By P.J. Casebolt Both the Bible and society recognize the advantages, privileges, and responsibilities of fleshly relationships. These relationships can be the cause of much delight, or they can put us in a dilemma from which we cannot, or will not, extricate ourselves. “But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those …
Thinking About the Family (2)
By Greg Litmer Over the years there have been many occasions when I have been asked to talk to different married couples who were experiencing problems in their marriages. On many other occasions my input was not sought or wanted, yet I could stand on the side lines and watch as another family disintegrated. Even …