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SOUND WORDS, NOV. 16, 2025
FAITHFUL TO-WHAT? I believe Christians may “depart from the faith,” “fall away from grace,” even “deny the Lord that bought them” (1 Tim. 4:1;Gal. 5:4;2 Pet. 2:1) for the scriptures clearly teach this. Our Baptist friends err when they apply 1 Jn. 2:19a to “all” (note 19b) who fully backslide. But “we” err in thinking that all who are baptized, and are “faithful” in their home-town, are truly converted to Christ. It is a common cry in California, Arizona—and I suspect in the northeastern industrial areas—that…
SOUND WORDS, JUNE 1, 2025
HAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN? “Now my idea about heaven is …” and then the writer or speaker reveals himself far more than he tells us about heaven. The materialist, sensual, mystical, aesthetic, and surrealist all have a field day with heaven. It is “pie in the sky” to those who ridicule its reality; and an extremely plush “paid vacation” for those who equate “real” with earthly literalism. “Heaven” is a divinely revealed place, state, or condition; and we…