Smell? What Smell?

By William V. Beasley During a brush-arbor meeting some years ago, a preaching farmer endeavored to show that sprinkling was an acceptable form of baptism. He proved it, to his own satisfaction, in spite of the apostle Paul saying, “we are buried with him by baptism” (Romans 6:3). Later that week when the farming preacher’s goose …

Did David REALLY Wear a Mini-Skirt?

By Al Diestelkamp You have seen the pictures-in the Bible storybooks and class materials used almost everywhere-there David stands, facing the warrior Goliath in a mini-skirt. When I first noticed it I could not help wondering, “Is this the garb of a ‘man after God’s own heart’?” Then, one by one I tried using the many …