In the margin of my reference Bible alongside this text there is the notation, “The inescapable question.” While it is true that this question is inescapable and that we must be confronted with the need for decision concerning its challenge, I do not think that it is the business of the Christian college to urge […]
THE CHURCH AND ITS THEOLOGIANS Theology is popularly defined as the “interpretation of religious faith, practice, and experience.” In the church different people take part in it in different ways and degrees. We arc thankful for good “pew theologians,” Aquila and Priscilla, tentmakers, heard the preaching of the eloquent Apollos, then “took him unto them, and expounded unto […]
LESSON TWENTY-TWO ART. 2. “A CORRUPT STOCK PRODUCED A CORRUPT OFFSPRING.” Like Begets like Like begets like. Fallen man begets fallen children. Adam’s sin caused all his descendent’s to be conceived and born in sin, Jesus excepted. The innocent looking babe you saw the other day is not innocent, but came into the world laden with […]
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12. If you are confused by the situation in our country today, this ought not to be thought surprising. In the years immediately past and indeed in the current hour, we are […]
Our interest in these studies is focused in the free offer of the gospel to all men without distinction. We found that the unrestricted overture of grace is grounded in the atonement and that the whole doctrine of the atonement bears upon the missionary task of the church. If the atonement is limited in its extent […]
Noah’s ark is a type of Christ. It points us to some of the truths about the person and work of Jesus. How then is Noah’s ark a type of Christ? 1 Just as the ark was graciously provided by God for sinners, so is salvation in Christ graciously provided by God for sinners (Gen. 6:13–14). Noah by nature deserved to […]
The first week of November 1994, a young mother named Susan Smith tugged on our nation’s heart when we learned that someone had forced her out of the car and kidnapped her two little boys still strapped in their car seats. Many of us were glued to the newspapers or news broadcasts to see if […]
Over the years the Rev. Neal Punt has had his own unique {not to say confusing} view about who will be saved and who will not. More than a decade ago his writings created some controversy in the church, a controversy in which I also took part. I was hoping that Punt had come to […]
“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe in Him has been judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:18 John 3:16 is not only one of the most familiar passages in […]
So when He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”…”Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’?” Luke 5:20, 23 About thirty years ago, Bill and Gloria Gaither wrote a song entitled, “There’s Something About That Name”. The song was […]