"When a visiting minister was invited to tea among the members, it was expected that he and all company would spend the evening at the house, and...

In my youth, I belonged to Faith Baptist Church of Knoxville. Quite often, especially after something good had been reported or a testimony had been given, he would say to the congregation, "And all the people said." The congregation would reply...

After the end of the American Civil War, General Robert E. Lee served as president of Washington College. When asked about the arrangement of new trees that were to be planted on the front campus, he replied, "Not in rows; nature never...

When historian David Benedict saw the church planter Abraham Marshall in the early 1800's, he was growing old in years. Marshall sent a message to his friends in New England. "Tell them that I am yet in the land of the dying, but...

In writing about the pressures of the coming Revolutionary War in America, Esther Forbes states, "Men struggled desperately to keep some middle ground--until that ground was...

"God is equally near to all parts of His universe. We think rightly about God and spiritual things only when we...

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Paul has already condemned the Gentiles for their wickedness in the first chapter of Romans. Here, he blasts the Jews because of their pride and false sense of righteousness. They are absolutely confident of their special position with God, but their confidence is in themselves and not in God.

In this chapter, the temple is nearing completion (compare Ezra 6:15 with Zechariah 7:1). Two men are sent to the house of God to pray and seek God

In this chapter, Isaiah describes difficult times in the history of God