MEMORIES OF AN OLD MAN Age has a way of stirring up thoughts and memories of the past; this week I’ll celebrate my 83rd birthday (DV) and I find this happening quite often. In our family we’re often reaching back and talking of people and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
BLESSED FRIEND OF SINNERS! “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” Hebrews 8:12 Blessed mercy! Covenant mercy! The Holy God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE DEATH OF MY BEST FRIEND (Copied & edited) There was a day when I came hard by a spot forever engraved upon my memory, for there I saw this Friend, my best, my only Friend, murdered. I saw that His hands had been pierced with rough iron...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
HOLY SPIRIT CONVERSION In the work of salvation there are two New Testament doctrines which appear clearly essential in their experiential effect if the work of salvation is completed: first the regeneration of the soul and secondly the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
FAMILY TRADITIONS Tradition is the transmitting of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. The Worthan Family has many traditions which have been passed on, I guess the oldest in our family would be that of Family Vacation which has...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE LORD’S DAY “And on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them.” (Acts 20:7). “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him.” (I...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS I have long since come to the conclusion that there was a drastic miscalculation in the days of the “Moral Majority”. I think what we are witnessing today in poll after poll that continues to encourage an arrogant immoral...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE MODERN RELIGIOUS GAME Sports, Music, Comedy, and Pizza: a caption of an advertisement put out by a Baptist Church in our area; expecting a thousand teenagers to pack a hillside to enjoy a concert? It continues with, ‘This is your chance to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE NATURE OF A CHILD “The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies” (Psalm 58:3) Children learn to speak lies before they can walk or talk; those stomach aches stop quickly when picked up and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
WHO’S GOING TO HEAVEN? Great multitudes of people have high hopes of going to that place called heaven. But who is going? Are there qualifications for that place? What does the Bible say about those qualifications? These are questions that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
