By Jerry F. Bassett This article is intended to deal with only one question of the many which have troubled brethren in their study of marriage and divorce. That question is: In describing the status of a believer from whom his/her unbelieving spouse has departed, what did Paul mean by the words “not under bondage”? Some …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 33
“Humility With a Hook”
By James W. Adams It has been suggested that self-abasement motivated by the desire to advertise one’s humility in order to be admired is “humility with a hook.” When I ran across this observation in my reading, it struck a responsive chord. The “humility” of far too many professed, New Testament Christians has a “hook,” hence …
When Methodists Baptize
By Steve Willis While going through a number of booklets and tracts I had acquired, I found some that must have been handed down to me from the early 1950s (some tracts in the same pile dated to 1946, others up to 1956) 1 found a booklet published by Methodist Evangelistic Materials titled When Methodists Baptize. …
Some People Will Not “Follow the Rules”
By Ronny E. Hinds It has been my observation over the years that there are some people who have great difficulty in following rules. It do not know why, maybe something about their personality or character, but they do have the problem. I have been reminded of this again by a couple of incidents. Most recently …