By Hoyt Houchen Question: Paul wrote in 2 Tim. 3:11, “Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at 1conium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.” How is is that the Lord delivered him out of them all, yet he endured them? Reply: The Greek word for …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 24
Be Your Own Self – Advice I Want To Be Me – Desire
By Herschel E. Patton Is the above expressed desire and advice good or bad? It depends on what is meant. If the advice is to think and act independent of every wind that blows or persuasive influence rather than to be like a “reed shaken by the wind” or a bark “tossed about by wind and …
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“We Are Fearfully And Wonderfully Made”
By John McCort The psalmist David exclaimed, “I will praise thee; for I am fearful and wonderfully made” (Psa. 139:14). As scientists continue studying the human body, they are discovering how intricate and well-organized the human body actually is. Scientific technology has been able to point out the fact that the human body is not a …
Metonomy and the Cup
By Lynn Trapp Brethren who oppose the use of a plural number of drinking vessels in the Lord’s Supper have for years tried to make an effort to fit the figure of speech, metonomy, into their scheme of things. These brethren seem unable to avoid seeing some significance to the drinking vessel which the Lord “took” …