By Keith Sharp What is truth? This soul-searching question, posed by Pontius Pilate over 1900 years ago (John 18:38), still haunts a spiritually floundering human race. Truth is the most precious commodity in the world. It alone can free you from the guilt of sin (John 8:31-32). Where can truth be found? Jesus is the truth …
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“And If They Drink Any Deadly Thing, It Shall Not Hurt Them”
By Irvin Himmel That is what Jesus told the apostles. Jesus does not lie. Two preachers drank deadly poison in Tennessee and became fatalities. They misapplied the words of Jesus and went to their graves. Moral of the story: It is serious business to tamper with the word of the Lord! Background In the interval between …
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Refusing Baptist Rice
By Larry Ray Hafley In The Sword of the Lord, of April 13, 1973, Baptist editor, Dr. John R. Rite, writes a lengthy “Answer To A Preacher Of the Church Of Christ.” Mr. Rice seeks to prove: (1) that “the Church of Christ is a false cult;” (2) that Mark 16:16 and Acts 2:38 do not …
Cornelius and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
By O. C. Birdwell Apparently the widely read and generally accepted book, The Mission and Medium of the Holy Spirit, by Foy E. Wallace, Jr., has caused the acceptance on the part of many of the idea that Cornelius was not baptized with the Holy Spirit. While it is true that what happened at the house …
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