Author Archives: Sandy Hastings

Love shouldn’t hurt

Wednesday, 22 January 2025 08:56

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Abuse- When It’s Not Violent —Yet
by Teresia Smith

Often, people do not identify a relationship as abusive until it becomes physically violent. However, other behaviors qualify as abuse. Some partners are psychologically abusive. They manipulate, degrade, and gaslight the victim. These behaviors can look like some of the following:

Thoughts from The Bible

Wednesday, 22 January 2025 08:54

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A Pulpit in Need of Repair

by Joey Carroll Corinth Missionary Baptist Church

If you read last week, I made the case that the first century culture surrounding the church at Corinth was mesmerized by the way men spoke. Philosophy had taken off, and the rhetorical skills of men were advancing. Unfortunately, it seems as though some men carried this new style into the pulpit. Paul uses a couple of different phrases to describe what was going on… “cleverness of speech” (1:17, NASB) and “superiority of speech” (2:1, NASB). And so Paul seeks to restore the pulpit at Corinth to a faithful way of handling the Word of God.