By Irvin Himmel In the New Testament every person converted to Christ learned that he was wrong and made a change. Many persons heard the gospel but refused to change from unbelief to faith, from disobedience to submission, from sin to righteousness. Pentecost On the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) the hearers of the gospel were …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Advice – Who Needs It?
By Ken Osborne Up to this time I have let older, wiser, more experienced preachers of the Gospel fill the pages of this paper, and others like it, because I felt they could and would do a far better job than 1. However, there has now appeared a problem which I think needs to be written …
Baptists and Instrumental Music
By William V. Beasley In his book, Church Manual Designed For The Use Of Baptist Churches, J. M. Pendleton presents a beautiful, scriptural argument which, when consistently applied shows that mechanical instruments of music in worship to God is wrong. In writing of the truth that baptism is for penitent believers only Mr. Pendleton says, “It …
Speaking Out with All Boldness
By Bruce Edwards, Jr. When the apostle Paul arrived in Athens and beheld the city “full of idols,@ the record says that “his spirit was provoked within him.” The import of this statement is that when the apostle witnessed the outrageous and sinful presence of idolatry in the city, he could not sit idly by and …