By Steven Wallace Many people are enamored with positive speech and preaching that is only positive. Because of the nature of the latter, it offends almost no one. In fact, most people enjoy it. Positive preaching’s general acceptability can be seen in that one could take many positive sermons and preach them with little or no …
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By Connie W. Adams It is urgent that congregations develop and maintain a good program for teaching the Bible to all age levels. Some congregations work very hard at this while others drift from quarter to quarter or year to year with no well defined goals and little attention to obtaining those goals. The primary objective …
By Norman E. Fultz It has been said of Abraham that one could trace his paths by the altars he built. And another writer stated, “It is often said of Abraham and the patriarchs that they built altars to the Lord; it is never said they built houses for themselves.” The altar, from a word meaning …
By J. Wiley Adams We are glad to see this expression coming back into play. It is long overdue. We need once again to “speak as the oracles” and punctuate our teaching with a “thus saith the Lord” (1 Pet. 4:11). We need to revive the scriptural slogan that “we speak where the Bible speaks and …
