By Rick Smith I remember it so vividly! The radio dispatcher assigned a signal 7, which is a death call. I parked the squad car in front of a tumbledown house situated in the slum area of our city. I recall the feeling I had walking into a house burdened with death. Ironically, the burden was …
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It Has Happened According to the True Proverb
By Mike DuBose In the May 28, 1972 edition of the Nashville Tennessean newspaper an article entitled “Church Choice Cost 3 Jobs at Lipscomb” made front page news. The article explained how three faculty members at David Lipscomb College had been “dismissed” because the teachers worship at Belmont Avenue Church of Christ in Nashville. As I …
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Suggestive of a New Name
By Fred A. Shewmaker Since 1957 I have had in my possession a tract entitled “What Is The Church of Christ”. The following Statement appears on the inside back cover of this tract: “The material in this article was presented in a sermon on January 23, 1955 at the Hillsboro Church of Christ, 2206 Hillsboro Road, …
Inspiration and Bible “Corruption
By Roland Worth, Jr. Any person acquainted with the Bible and the history of its transmission realizes that multitudes of minor and insignificant differences exist in the surviving manuscripts. Some people (who should know better!) use this fact to discredit belief in the inspiration of the Bible itself. R. Laird Harris, in his Inspiration and Canonicity …