FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 50, December 16, 2021 They spent a long time there speaking boldly with reliance upon the Lord who was testifying to the word of His grace. -Acts 14:3 I very well remember in December of 1976, while working with Dr. Jim Baird at the First Presbyterian Church, Macon,... Continue Reading →
Regeneration, Not Morality, Our Only Hope
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS, volume 20, number 49, December 9, 2021 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.” -Mark 2:21 By 1938 a storm was gathering over Europe as Adolf Hitler was... Continue Reading →
Religion or Regeneration?
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 48, December 2, 2021 “Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again,’” John 3:8 The city of Philadelphia recently broke a three decade homicide record, reaching 501 thus far in 2021. The Waukesha, Wisconsin Christmas Parade attack last week resulted in sixty-two... Continue Reading →
The Horrific Results of the Affliction of Affluence
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 47, November 25, 2021 “Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old or infirm. He gave them all into his hand.” -2... Continue Reading →
October 18, 1966, What Should We Learn?
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 46, November 18, 2021 “Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.” -Romans 16:17c,18. The tension in the evangelical world of Great Britain had been building for several... Continue Reading →
No Freedom Without Virtue
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 45, November 11, 2021 “For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” -Galatians 5:13 When our federal and state governments mandated limits on public assemblies during the pandemic, including forbidding churches to... Continue Reading →
Freedom or Tyranny
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 44, November 4, 2021 “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man rules, people groan.” -Proverbs 29:2. Os Guinness tells the story of a young Massachusetts scholar in 1843 doing research on the American Revolutionary War and the events which led to it. In... Continue Reading →
Pushing Back Against Government Intrusion
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 43, October 28, 2021 “The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.” -Romans 14:22 James Otis[1] was eighteen years old when he graduated with his good friend John Adams from Harvard in... Continue Reading →
What Should We Learn From the Presbyterian Rebellion?
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 42, October 21, 2021 “Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks to God, as he had been doing previously.” -Daniel 6:10 When the power brokers in Babylon... Continue Reading →
What Kind of Preaching Does Birmingham Need?
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 41, October 14, 2021 “John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.” -Mark 1:4 There are lots of similarities today between my town of Birmingham, Alabama and Jerusalem when John the Baptist began his preaching ministry. Birmingham is a... Continue Reading →