The other day I got to thinking about barn painting, and some of the painful lessons I have learned the hard way. There is a spiritual parallel in these, and the more I thought about it, the more I could see how stating these lessons might be of some benefit […]

  On March 13, 2020, President Trump declared a national emergency effective March 1, 2020 due to the COVID-19 (“new coronavirus”) outbreak in the United States. This declaration, and other rapid developments, are having dramatic effects upon our operations and activities here at Central. In addition to our desire to cooperate […]

The most memorable and helpful preaching and teaching I have heard is always the most practical. All the theories in the world mean very little if I cannot translate them into every-day living. That’s why I appreciate so much preachers and teachers who can not only lay out general principles, […]

In John 13:34-35, our Lord said, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have a love one to another.” With […]

Memorials say as much about the persons observing them, as they do about anyone else. What kind of parents pack up the family and travel to a distant cemetery with a handful of flowers specially bought and paid for, and some clippers to trim the weeds and grass on Decoration […]

“Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you,” (2 Pet. 1:12).      Even though we have been taught, and even though we may know all the basic components of the […]