By Kyle Campbell In order to fully understand the Jewish religion and people, and to gain a greater perspective of a number of events in the New Testament, one needs to study the Jewish feasts and festivals. The Jewish feasts and festivals were scheduled at specific times in the annual calendar and they were both …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 42 1998
Preaching With Erasers or Markers?
By Stan Adams Paul told Timothy to “preach the word, be urgent in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine” (1 Tim. 4: 1-3). As a gospel preacher and the son of a gospel preacher, I am well aware that gospel preachers will all have a style that is unique …
“They Were Cut To the Heart”
By Rodney Pitts The phrase cited above is only found on two occasions within the whole of the New Testament (Acts 2:37 and 7:54). In both instances the hearers were said to have been “cut to the heart” after the truth of God was preached with confident force and direct application. This piercing of their …
Valuing Men Above Animals
By Connie W. Adams We live in a convoluted world. Recently a young woman received a three-year sentence for killing her own newborn baby in a motel room. Near that time a man was given a fifteen-year sentence for killing some cats. In our nation we have had nearly forty million legal abortions in the …