Paul W. Powell Legacy Library

The Christian faith is given to us in the Bible full and final, complete and unchanging. Nothing to be added to it or subtracted from it. You may ask, “Am I to believe the same thing my grandfather believed?” Oh yes! Your grandfather may not have known a computer chip from a potato chip, but if he understood the Bible correctly you can believe the same thi...

In this season of Thanksgiving, it's good to remember that the greatest American ideas are rooted in a Bible heritage and faith in God. I mean ideas like the dignity of people and equality before the law. I know that our forefathers were not saints. I know that many were not even Christians. However, they were greatly influenced by biblical faith. The repeated mention...

Why do people suffer, especially good people? Why do evil people prosper? These questions are as old as humankind but as current as today. Is there any answer to them? The explanation of the prosperity of the wicked is easy. It is due to the indiscriminate love of God. He loves all people, even those who hate him and he bestows his blessings on all people alike. (Mat...

William E. Gladstone, the great statesman of England, once said to E. DeWitt Talmage, “Talmage, you talk about the questions of the day. There is only one question, and that’s the question of religion in the home. Settle that and you will settle all questions.” There have been many changes in our world since those words were spoken but they are still...

Faith is an absolute need for modern man. Most people do realize that scientists live by faith. They accept information by faith. No scientist has ever seen an electron or proton, yet we all believe in these atomic particles. We have all the faith in the world in what our trusted textbooks tell us is truth, even though we know that those same textbooks are being const...

American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “The name of Jesus is not so much written into history as it is plowed into it.” Sooner or later we must all face the ultimate question of what we will do with him. There are at least four alternatives: 1. You may be indifferent to him. Pilate sought to wash his hands of Jesus. He thought he could decide no...

In this day of skepticism and doubt many have lost faith in spiritual things. They wonder things like, “Can there be any certainty of the resurrection?” and “How can we be sure that Jesus was raised from the dead?”  In 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 the Apostle Paul presents three evidences for the reality of the resurrection. 1. The testimony of...

Literary genius George Bernard Shaw stated that life’s ultimate statistic is the same for all people: one out of one dies. Death is no respecter of persons. Sooner or later death will blow its chilly breath into the face of every one of us. The Bible warns us that “It is appointed unto men once to die, after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). You ma...

There are many people who see no need of going to church. They say, “I can be just as good a Christian by staying home, so why attend? This question deserves an answer and I have it.  First: We should go to church to worship God. This is by far is the most important reason for church attendance. We do not go to church just to hear a sermon or to see o...