1 Corinthians 14: Truth, the Roadblock to Error

By Arthur M. Ogden Many have concluded, that if 1 Corinthians 14 is binding today, Christian women could not scripturally teach a class of other women or children when the church is arranged in various Bible Classes to study God’s Word. This they conclude because Paul said, “Let your women keep silence in the churches” (v. …

Descriptive Terms of Christians: Soldiers

By Mike Willis When Paul referred to Epaphroditus and Archippus as his “fellow-soldiers” (Phil. 2:25; Phile. 2), he introduced another descriptive term which in some way reveals what a Christian is. Thus, in our study of the descriptive terms of Christians, we must include the word “soldier.” ‘The first idea which comes to one’s mind when …

Subject to Powers

By Jeffery Kingry Romans 13 has been used occasionally to lend credence to the doctrine that approves a Christian’s active participation in war. As Foy E. Wallace put it ai he commented on this passage, “If the civil government is legally and morally right, the military is automatically and equally so, for the civil government cannot …

Conversion: The Conversion of Paul

By Cecil Willis For many weeks we have been studying the plan of salvation; studying faith, repentance and baptism from different viewpoints. After having studied each of these commandments from its different aspects, for the next few weeks we want to study the application of these rules as they are applied in the lives and conversions …