By Ron Halbrook The Program Services Dept. of the Tennessee Baptist Convention (P.O. Box 647, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027) is circulating a tract by J. Walter Carpenter entitled Water Baptism. God commended the people of Berea because they carefully examined the message of Paul by searching the scriptures daily, whether those things were so (Acts 17:11). Surely …
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By Larry A. McKee Every generation has its rebels, idealists, drop-outs, and anarchists. We have ours but they have developed no new insights into life’s problems, nor are they any worse in their reactions or less radical in their solutions than their predecessors. Many Christians view this anarchy which exists in many quarters as an unsolvable …
By Amos Davenport Joshua and Caleb were men of faith and action. Their report was an enthusiastic “Let us go up and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.” The other ten spies said, “We be not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we” (Num. 13). The …
By Howard See In a recent, late-night television interview of a snake handling preacher from East Tennessee, the text of Mark 16:9-20 was attacked as being spurious. This was an effort to try to offset the teaching in Mark 16:18, “‘They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt …
