By Mrs. D. Gibson Recently we received this flier in the mail from the First Baptist Church of Byron. Will You Come Back to Church If We Promise Not to Throw the Book at You? Under the caption it reads, “In our church we believe in a loving and forgiving God. Come and join us this …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 41 1997
Is Assembling Individual or Collective?
By Eric Norford The above question is an interesting one to ponder. It would receive various responses from people in denominationalism and even from members in the body of Christ. Our assembling refers to worship of God. At the same time worship to God is an individual matter. Each individual is to determine in his heart …
Soft Pulpits And Dusty Bibles
By Dickey Howard During the 50s the Lord’s church divided over institutionalism, and there was a clear line drawn between truth and error. Many of God’s people stood for the truth, and continue not to support institutionalism, but one battle does not win the war. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a …
Giving Christ a Face Lift
By Lowell Blasingame “In The News,” a column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, (9/30/97), reported that Brazil’s leading religious artist, Claudia Pastro, had accepted the Vatican’s invitation to give Christ a “face lift” for the third millennium and that he plans to design an “evangelizing, dynamic Christ” as opposed to a “suffering, despairing Savior” and to give …