Posts from November 2023

Personal evangelism is a topic that should interest every Christian. The great commission is a fundamental bible doctrine that we learn from an early age. God wants, yea requires, His people to spread the good news throughout the world. From time to time, it is good for us to “sharpen our sword” in order to improve in the area of personal evangelism. Here are some practical suggestions that will help us to be the best personal evangelists we can be.…

There is no more interesting narration in all the Bible than the story of David and his Son Absalom. Nor are there any that portray more forcibly the prospects of “like father – like Son” disposition in some of Absalom’s conduct. David’s terrible sin of adultery with Uriah’s wife may have had much to do in fostering the pride and self-confidence in the character of his son. Absalom’s natural advantages were great and favorable. “There was none to be so…

[Many years ago Alan Highers, then minister for the Getwell church in Memphis, TN, recorded the following story. Brother Highers was selected to succeed Guy N. Woods as director of the Open Forum at the Annual Lectureship of then Freed­Hardeman College (now Freed-Hardeman University), he continues to serve as Editor of the Spiritual Sword magazine. Brother Highers is now a retired Tennessee State Court of Appeals Judge]. The following incident in the life of Brother J.W. McGarvey was told by…

The following article was published in 1981, but is remains fresh in 2023. Since Jehovah rules in the kingdoms of men (Daniel 4:25) and in His sight “the nations are as the drop of a bucket” (Isaiah 40:15), we must face up to our immediate responsibilities if we are to preserve America. In one of the most familiar statements regarding national concern, James Russell Lowell declared, “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. In the strife…