By Walton Weaver The current emphasis on building self-esteem as the focal point around which our preaching and teaching are to be centered is being received enthusiastically by many leading theologians today. During the last ten years the book market has been flooded with books on the subject. What was first laid down as a guiding …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 31
The “Miracle” of Seed-Faith
By Mike Willis I stand amazed at the financial empires which the TV evangelists have been able to build. Through their abilities to raise funds from their listening audiences, they have been able to purchase television time, erect buildings for their corporate offices, build a recreational facility (Heritage Park), operate a university (Oral Roberts University), operate …
Fund-raising Without Shame
By Lewis Willis Folks, it is evident that much of our society has lost or willfully abandoned the ability to be ashamed. It appears that people will do almost anything these days and never perceive that such is a shame to themselves. Who among us has not been repulsed at the flaunting by gays and lesbians …
A Biographical Sketch: Norman Vincent Peale
By Daniel W. Petty Norman Vincent Peale was born in 1898 in rural Bowersville, Ohio, the son of a Methodist preacher. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio in 1920, Peale began working for a newspaper, his first interest being in journalism. In a year he had decided instead to pursue a career in …
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