From an Old Preacher’s Journal It had been a long hot summer! Field crops looked terrible. Their yield would be so low some farmers would not break even to pay for seed and fertilizer. Farm ponds were mud holes, small creeks were dry beds and larger streams were running very low and slow. It was …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 44 2000
What Can We Learn From Children?
By Mike West There could be no greater job for a parent than to teach the child about Christ and what a person must do to follow the Lord as the proverb says: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. …
The Sword & Shield Begins
By Ron Halbrook A new gospel paper named The Sword & Shield was launched in the Republic of the Philippines during 1999. It is being published quarterly under the able editorship of Lordy G. Salunga. The masthead quotes Ephesians 6:16-17, “taking the shield of faith . . . and the sword of the Spirit, which …
“Hallelujah, Christ Arose!”
By Daniel H. King No doubt you recognize the title of this article as the beautiful closing line of Robert Lowry’s century-old hymn Christ Arose. It appears in most song books used by brethren because it represents the victorious theme of authentic Christian preaching from the day of the apostle Peter’s Pentecost sermon to the …