By Fred C. Melton “We stay away from church, we seldom read the Bible, but we all need something to believe in . . . .” You know, I can remember telling those great ghost stories around a bonfire out in the backyard when I was a child but I never did think that anyone took …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 19
An Early History of the Lord’s Church in the Nashville Area (II)
By Steve Wolfgang The Civil War The dispute with Ferguson, the missionary society question, the controversy with Richardson and Campbell, and the burning of the church’s building were not the end of the church’s troubles, however. With the coming of the Civil War, the activities of the church were even more adversely affected. From the beginning, …
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A Review of “Water Baptism” by J. Walter Carpenter
By Ron Halbrook The Program Services Dept. of the Tennessee Baptist Convention (P.O. Box 647, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027) is circulating a tract by J. Walter Carpenter entitled Water Baptism. God commended the people of Berea because they carefully examined the message of Paul by searching the scriptures daily, whether those things were so (Acts 17:11). Surely …
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Nihilism — it Never Grows Old
By Larry A. McKee Every generation has its rebels, idealists, drop-outs, and anarchists. We have ours but they have developed no new insights into life’s problems, nor are they any worse in their reactions or less radical in their solutions than their predecessors. Many Christians view this anarchy which exists in many quarters as an unsolvable …