By Jeffery Kingry Anyone who has ever had experience with people has observed how sin affects physical well-being. Apart from the obvious effects of sin such as obesity through intemperance, drunkenness through drinking, birth defects, and brain damage through drugs or smoking and its attendant damage (emphysema, cancer, heart disease etc.), our bodies react to sin. …
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By Mike Willis In 1 Tim. 2:5, Paul wrote, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” This was a novel idea expressed by God to the pagan world. The pagan world not only imagined a number of gods, they also imagined that a number of intermediaries …
By Gregory V. Selby Most people have heard of the expression: “A rose by any other name is a rose just the same!” I believe that this expression was derived from the following lines from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (Act. II, Scene ii): “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other …
By Ron Halbrook Salvation prepared by God for man is the greatest story ever told! How truly “the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance” (Rom. 2:4). “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?” (Heb. 2:3). As God’s people, we need to understand how we ourselves have been saved. We also need to …
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