By Larry Ray Hafley In the book of Romans, salvation is ascribed and attributed to a number of items. One is saved: 1. By the gospel: “The gospel” is “the power of God unto salvation unto every one that believeth” (Rom. 1: 16). 2. By the Grace of God: “Being justified freely by his grace through …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
What? Me Wrong?
By Dennis L. Shaver The attitude of some individuals, concerning religious matters, is just as we have suggested in the title. We are speaking not only of our denominational friends, but most especially of our own brothers and sisters in Christ. Those that are supposed to have brotherly love one for another, yet profess the above …
Hide and Seek
By Ronny Milliner “. . . then the people did bide themselves in eaves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits” (I Sam. 13:6). In this verse the Israelites seem to be playing hide and seek with the approaching Philistine army. The children of Israel must have had the attitude …
Acceptable Obedience
By Larry Ray Hafley Acceptable obedience in the sight of the Lord is not the mere mechanical performance of certain duties. God is interested in the heart that prompts the service; whereas man assumes that doing “what God says” is all that is important. The failure to see obedience as the Lord conceives it leads to …