By Mike Willis This special issue on preaching is a call for brethren to return or adhere to, as the case may be, Bible preaching. The temptation to be “conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2) is not limited to conformity in moral degeneration; there is also a temptation to allow this age’s view of preaching to …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 36
Preaching Like Jeremiah
By Jerry Fite Jeremiah began his prophetic work in the thirteenth year of Josiah’s reign. As a youthful Josiah wielded kingly force to tear down idols, young Jeremiah applied moral persuasion to eliminate the idolatrous heart. Despite forty years of exposure to Jeremiah’s preaching, Judah’s heart did not change. One will not find Jeremiah’s name among …
Preaching Like John the Baptist
By Warner Robins “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord” (Lk. 1:17). John the Baptist was no city slicker. He, from an early age, dwelt …
Postfixed Divorces
By Edward O. Bragwell, Sr. In grammar, a postfix (or suffix) is “a sound, syllable, or syllables added at the end of a word or word base to change its meaning, give it grammatical function, or form a new word” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language 1457). It occurs to me that postfixing (to …