By Lewis Willis When I was a boy, our small-town Baptist church was as strong as garlic on moral questions. They op-posed divorce and remarriage for any cause. They opposed drunkenness. They opposed lying, cheating and stealing. It would have been insulting to those people to have even asked what they thought of homosexuality. Everybody would …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 37
Great Themes from Acts: The Roman World
By Tom Roberts The physical world which early Christians traversed in planting the gospel throughout the first century was vastly different than our world today. Religion, transportation, language, culture, and government were as different from our generation’s as night from day. Any consideration of the gospel age and the growth of truth in the Roman Empire …
Are There Few Saved?
By Frank Himmel Are you headed for heaven? In November, 1990, the Gallup organization surveyed Americans’ thoughts on heaven and hell. The results were published in the March 25, 1991 issue of U.S. News & World Report. Seventy-eight per-cent of those responding believe there is a heaven. When asked if they thought they had an “excellent …
Plants to be Rooted Up
By Jim Deason David said it this way, “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Psa. 127:1). Jesus said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up” (Matt. 15:13). Either way the meaning is the same — if it doesn’t begin with the Lord it …