By Mike Willis Although I have been preaching for eleven years, I have personally conducted only two funerals and participated in about two others. Hence, I have not been around death nearly so much as many my own age. Recently, I witnessed the burial of a close friend of mine, a deacon in one of the …
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That’s A Good Question
By Larry Ray Hafley QUESTION: From Nigeria: “What is the real meaning of revellings?” REPLY: “Revellings” is one of the works of the flesh that is in contrast to the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:19-23). Those guilty of engaging in revelerous deportment cannot go to heaven. They will go to hell (Gal. 5:21). Therefore, it …
Observations Taken from a Religious Census
By Bill H. Reeves The Bureau of the Census, of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, prepared a two-volume work entitled, “Religious Bodies: 1936,” which contains some of the most valuable material in print on denominationalism. The government had for a good number of decades taken such a census every ten years. I have only the 1936 …
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Baptism is One in Design (II)
By Roy E. Cogdill We have pointed out in previous articles that Bible baptism has one element, one authority, and one action. We want to notice further that the one baptism of the New Testament is one in design. While that design can be expressed in several different ways in Bible language-it is in essence one …