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I read this startling quote from a prominent Reformed Baptist pastor giving a lecture on preaching, “You should prepare your sermon so that, if the Holy Spirit doesn’t show up, at least the people will have heard a good lecture.” No! No! No! It is the Holy Spirit who must teach us….and lead us unto…

I ran across some quotes on catechizing, that remind us of its importance down through the years. It should be pointed out that catechizing and catechism are two different things. We use the catechism to catechize, but memorizing the catechism is not catechizing. Catechizing uses the catechism for the outline of study toward the goal…

Have you ever heard someone say that they were going to a certain church because it “meets our needs?”  It begs the question: Just what are your needs? My suspicion is that for most people those needs are not what the Bible says they should be.  Consider several things that the Scriptures tell us we…

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      Today, we have a guest blog and poem by one of Bethel’s elders, Chris Campbell. Enjoy!       Proverbs 22:6 tells us, “Train up a child in the way he should go,/ And when he is old, he will not depart from it.”  Our pastor made the point that this proverb is…

      There are many churches today that not only do not have any public creeds, but disdain those churches that do. Their argument is along the line that they have no creed but the Bible, which is their sole authority for faith and practice.        This sounds pious, but what is…

       When I was in school, boys took shop and girls took home economics, but those days are long gone. Today, we sedate the boys to keep them calm and we teach the girls to be more aggressive through sports and war. And this is supposed to be progress?         A…

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler was born in 1914 in Vienna. At the age of 18, she achieved international fame by starring in a successful Czechoslovakian film and a year later was married to Friedrich Mandl, one of the wealthiest men in Austria. Mandl was a munitions manufacturer who did business with Hitler and Mussolini, even…

       Have you ever known someone who knows everything? No matter what the subject, they have the answers, and rather than listening and learning, they seek to teach. This is very often the case with people in spiritual matters and the Apostle Paul has them pegged perfectly–“desiring to be teachers of the law,…

      My sister, Marian, went home to be with the Lord last week. It seems like just yesterday that  we were sitting in a hamburger joint listening to Pat Boone singing “Love Letters in the Sand” on the juke box. Just yesterday she took me to one of the largest cattle ranches in…