The first picture that comes to mind when we hear the word “singing” would usually be a happy one. But more and more, differing views about music in assembly life are turning friendly discussions into heated dissension—even unhappy divisions. This is especially disconcerting since “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing […]
If we could approach the Supper with this desire to give to the Lord what will please His heart, we would make sure that we had something. It need not be much. A brother, not accustomed to public speaking, stood up at the Lord’s Supper one morning and simply said “O God, we just want […]
A clear distinction must be kept between the Lord’s Supper and the Lord’s table. These terms are often used interchangeably. It is not altogether wrong to do so, so long as we understand the biblical distinction. The Supper is contained within the table but it is not the same. There are, in fact, eight distinctions […]
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There seems to be a great deal of confusion in the evangelical world regarding the meaning of worship. Can you give me a biblical definition of it, and make some suggestions as to how I might encourage my own heart to worship the Father “in spirit and in truth”? Worship has been well defined as […]
It was in 1957 that University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman met a middle distance runner named Phil Knight. After graduating with an MBA from Stamford, Knight began importing athletic shoes from Japan, selling them out of the trunk of his car. His first shipment of 200 pairs arrived in 1963. The next year […]
The decisive battle in Joshua 10 brings in a succession of victories and the eventual subjugation of the land. And with its telling, Part 1 of the Book of Joshua closes. Finding that the Gibeonites had made terms with Israel, Adonizedec, king of Jerusalem, summoned the king of Hebron and the adjoining city states to […]
Of absorbing interest to many students in the world today is the divine outlook presented in the Scriptures concerning the international Jewish problem and the final return of the Jews to their homeland. It becomes obvious to the most casual reader of the Old Testament prophecies that God is steadily working out His sovereign will […]
Those flitting and fluttering motions of the butterfly, long thought to be “primitive” and “inefficient” movements of a creature struggling to improve, are no such thing, according to David Catchpoole, an Australian physiologist with Answers in Genesis. After filming red admiral butterflies flying in a wind tunnel, Catchpoole writes that “researchers have been surprised by […]
A few months before the Great Chicago Fire, Father came to the conclusion that the law, while highly remunerative, was absorbing too much of his time. He had no idea of giving up his practice. He was senior partner in the prominent and influential Chicago firm of Spafford, McDaid and Wilson, and was considered an […]