Making God’s Plan Work in the Family

By Bill Hawkins Trying to operate a divinely given relationship without following divinely given directions is never successful. Just as God has created the family relationship, He has also given rules in the Scriptures to regulate it. Many families today are either ignorant of them, or have chosen to ignore them, with the result being that …

An Early History of the Lord’s Church in the Nashville Area

By Steve Wolfgang In the fall of 1796, 24-year-old Barton Warren Stone arrived in Middle, Tennessee, at a settlement known as “Bledsoe’s Creek, five miles east of Gallatin and the site of present-day Castalian Springs. Stone visited at Shiloh,. . .about a mile east of Gallatin, and then went on to Nashville.”(1) Stone, at that time a …

Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So!

By Howard See In Psalms 107, the Psalmist extolled God’s mercies and exhorted the redeemed of the Lord. In the first two verses the Psalmist said, “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand …

Why do Christians fail to Assemble with the Saints?

By David O. Lanius, Jr. “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised); and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ‘ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much …