By Luther Blackmon In Romans 1: 14 Paul wrote, “I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise.” Paul did not mean that the Greeks and Barbarians had done anything for him personally that placed him under obligation to them. But God had done something for …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Has God’s Plan Failed?
By Darwin Kerr The Christian in the world! – The very core of the plan of God. The Christian – Divinities’ creation to exhibit the wisdom of Heaven before the denizens of doubt, disbelief and darkness. The Christian – God’s new creation, on which rests His final hope for accomplishing His purposes and receiving the homage …
Apostolic Succession
By Irvin Himmel The doctrine of apostolic succession is, broadly speaking, the idea that all the apostles of Christ were to have men succeed them in their office down through the centuries. Some religious bodies claim succession, not by an unbroken chain reaching back to the first century, but by a restoration of the apostleship based …
Lessons in Series
By John A. Welch We can learn as much from the Lords parables by studying them in sets, as we can by looking at them individually. Indeed, we can often lose much of the Lord’s lesson by failing to consider the parables, as He taught them, in a consecutive order as a group. We will look …