By Cecil Willis For several years the liberal brethren have had a difficult time determining how the human institutions which they have foisted upon the church shall be directed. The Firm Foundation has maintained that these institutions must be under an eldership, while the Gospel Advocate has declared that they must not be under elders, but …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Responsibility to the Local Church
By Roy E. Cogdill The New Testament pattern of things evidences that the individual Christian should be a part of a local church of Christ. Paid “assayed to join himself to the disciples” when he came up to Jerusalem from three years of preaching in Arabia. This is essential to fellowship with the saints for fellowship …
Religious Journalism in 1971
By Irvin Himmel The history, of the church of Christ in America is closely linked to publications in which brethren have expressed thought, preached their convictions, waged battles, explored questions, reported the news, and left a fluent record of their actions and attitudes. Hundreds of magazines and papers have come and gone. A few have had …
Eloquence
A timid moon blushed behind a cloud As somewhere a coyote wailed aloud At the lonely loveliness tonight Framed in its halo of hazy light The plain spread its tablecloth of sand At the feet of mountains old and grand Stars like angels’ eyes blinked serenely Viewing creation set supremely. Teasing rocks, playful brooks …