Music as Communication
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PlayStop Popout X To test the genuineness of a diamond, jewelers often place it in clear water, which causes a real diamond to sparkle with incredible brilliance. An imitation stone, on the other hand, will have very little sparkle at all. When the two are placed side by side, even an untrained eye can easily…
PlayStop Popout X 1 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Psalm 40:2-3 says, “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock,…
I was reading a neat story about a brand-new mother who was listening to a special church service on a little battery-operated radio on a farm in Indiana. It was 1932, and the speaker was Harry Ironside, pastor of the famous Moody Memorial Church in Chicago. The church was conducting a special dedication service. During…
PlayStop Popout X These closing verses finally bring the epistle full circle. John began with the coming of the Word of Life (1:1-4); now he closes with the certainty that the Son of God has come. The present tense of the verb “come” in the original language indicates that Jesus has come and is still…