By Joanna Peterson All my friends are Christians, therefore I am safe from corruption, I smugly thought to myself. Didn’t I see these friends every Sunday and Wednesday at worship as well as social gatherings on weekends? Staying at home with my two little girls, I no longer had to listen to fellow workers cursing and …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Have Ye Not Read?
By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: In Matthew 27:36 we read: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My Got, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Did God actually forsake Jesus while he was dying on the cross? Reply: This statement of Jesus is one …
The Way It Was — 1865 – The Way It Is – 1989
By Barney Keith History has a way of repeating itself, doesn’t it? In April 1865 Moses E. Lard, one of the “Pioneer” preachers, was disturbed as he saw various things happening among churches of Christ. Writing in Lard’s Quarterly (Vol. II, p. 257) he referred to certain developments as “ill-omened symptoms in our ranks.” Among other …
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Fellowship or Folly-ship – Which?
By Lowell Blasingame Fellowship! It’s a good Bible word but like some others, it is often abused and mis-used. John said that we have fellowship with God by walking in the light (1 Jn. 1:7). Some folks don’t seem to be able to say the word without conjuring visions of fried chicken, coffee and donuts, etc. …