I have this Question. How would you explain Ezekiel 33:11: “As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turneth from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel.” This Scripture […]

OUTLINE 29 4. A TRUSTWORTHY JUDGMENT RE MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY (I Cor. 7:25-40)   a.   Occasion for its pronouncement. It is difficult to determine precisely what it is that is the occasion for the judgment the apostle here pronounces. In verse 26 the apostle speaks of “the present distress” or perhaps better translated “the impending […]

It is the evening of your graduation exercise? I see you line up with your classmates to await the first chords of “Pomp and Circumstance”. Your hand feels cold and damp. You are frightened by the eyes that will be upon you. Graduation is commencement. You are declared ready for new beginnings. Time for you […]

Do you have any bad habits? We commonly speak of habits as being either good or bad, and by habits we sometimes mean practices which, through constant repetition, are done without a conscious act of the will. Habits may also refer to the manner in which we go about the routine matters of our life. […]

“Dust to dust, the mortal dies, both the foolish and the wise.” Psalter 136. “Where is the dust that has not been alive? From human mold we reap our daily bread.” Young. Again the eager farmer turns to plow the apparently lifeless soil. Possibly he observes a few worms and small bugs but aside from […]

Lifting the Lid . . . The major purpose of building schools and colleges during the colonial period of our history and well into the nineteenth century was to instruct students in the Christian Religion. Many of our large universities such as Yale, Columbia, Harvard, and others were begun for this very purpose. The primary […]

In our days of painful labor problems the question easily begins to play in our minds, what is the meaning and purpose of all the labor and struggle of man in what we call the world of labor and industry? It is in these days that the Executive Department has seized the steel mills to […]

Humanity classifies itself into two schools. In the one is enrolled the vast majority of the world’s populace who lived by the slogan: “For me to live is pleasure, money-making, social prestige, etc.” In one word, life in this school consists in “self-gratification”. No doubt you have already observed that honorary degrees, titles of recognition […]