Disastrous Witnessing: Episode 15

As we consider the controversial Shroud of Turin, turn with me to First Corinthians 15:13-14, “But if there be no resurrection from the dead, then is Christ not risen?”

My friend, are you only a ten percent Christian? Now this starts of course, with tithing. But it goes far deeper than that. Years ago, a dear old lady in the church that I pastored came to me all upset. She said our preachers today are preaching the doctrine of tithing. But, she said, it … Read more

As we consider the subject, Fenced in by Jesus, I’m reminded that a number of years ago, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention aroused a firestorm of protest when he said that no Orthodox Jew could ever enter heaven. Immediately he was stigmatized as a bigot, a racist, anti-Semitic and what not. But, of … Read more

Yet the dire predictions of George Orwell did NOT come to pass. Or DID they? Forty attempts at socialism have brought abysmal failure in forty countries.