By Roger Hillis I may not be very bright, but I don’t understand why you don’t just leave the churches of Christ. You no longer believe most of the things that make the Lord’s church distinctive, so why do you stick around and, under the guise of unity, try to convince others to stop believing …
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By Larry Ray Hafley On November 5, 1996, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 1990 law linking standards of decency to federal arts funding was unconstitutional. The earlier law had been passed when a furor arose over federal funding of erotic, homosexual “art.” Now, it has been decided that the government’s funding …
By Mark Mayberry As revealed on the pages of the New Testament, the church of our Lord Jesus Christ is all-sufficient. It is excellent or complete beyond all practical or theoretical improvement. It is positively suited to the spiritual needs of mankind. It is entirely without flaw, defect or shortcoming. In short, God’s pattern for the …
By Olen Holderby J.W. Roberts, in his small commentary on the first epistle of John (124), quotes Stott as referring to the three lies which John discusses as “three black lies” of this epistle — thus the title of this article. The “moral” black lie — 1 John 1:6. “If we say we have fellowship …
