By Larry Ray Hafley Many criticize the Old Baptists when we teach that we can do nothing to effect the new birth in ourselves or in others. We believe that just as in our natural birth we had nothing to do with effecting it – so we have nothing to do in our spiritual birth. Keep …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 30
“Helping God Out”
By Anthony Wayne Goforth In the barren old age of Abraham and Sarah, God promised a seed heir (Gen. 15:4). We usually think of Abraham as the great example of living faith, and so he was for the most part, but faltered with this difficult-to-believe promise of God. As we read Genesis 16:1-2, we find that …
Pearls From Proverbs
By Irvin Himmel Neat But Negative Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox (Prov. 14:4). Oxen were used for a variety of purposes in Bible times. They furnished the power for pulling a plow. Elisha was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen when the mantle …
Have Ye Not Read?
By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 is a specific command for a weekly collection for poor saints in Jerusalem. How can this be used as general authority for a weekly collection that is not used to help needy saints, but is used to pay the preacher, missionaries, utilities, literature, etc.? Reply: “Now concerning the …