We throw the term “love” around a lot. “I love pizza!” “What do I think of that one ride at Six Flags? Oh, I just love it!” Even Christians at times, with a greater understanding of what biblical love actually is, can still use the term loosely in a manner not quite fitting its definition. … Read More Let Love Be Genuine — Jon Mitchell
Many people in the Lord’s church today have a presence on Facebook and other social media. It can be a helpful way of keeping in touch with friends, literal, and “friends” of a less personal nature (they have no interaction outside of the online community). Part of our online presence is, on Facebook at least,… Read More The Relationship Between Love And Unity — David Bragg
I write this editorial the week after the shooting at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee. Last Sunday afternoon, I had gone to Wal-Mart after worship services to get my daughter a birthday cake for a birthday party we were having for her at church that night. As I was standing in… Read More The Solution To Our Troubling Times — Jon Mitchell, Editor (Editorial: October, 2017)
There are certain words we need to be careful about how we use them or throw them around. One word we use on a daily basis has probably become the most overworked and overused word we know today. It is a simple four-letter word. Everyone uses it. We have allowed this word to come out… Read More An Overworked Word With Underfelt Meaning — Lorraine Smith
No one owes you anything. You also owe no one anything. Let us be honest with each other for a moment and come to the realization that there is no earthly reason for any of us to do any good whatsoever. Yet we as members of the body of Christ don’t live by earthly tutelage.… Read More The Kindness of David — Jake Sutton
Love is the grace of a special commandment. Jesus said: “[A] new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another, as I have loved you” (Jn. 13:34). Love always was a priority. It is before, above, and inclusive of all other rules for human relationships (Ro. 13:8ff).… Read More Adding Love To Brotherly Kindness — David R. Pharr
Part of all this trial is coming face to face with the man in the mirror, in God’s hands, by the trial, God is showing you what kind of man you are really and what kind of God he is really and what it really is he wants you to be.” –Mike Mobley My desperate… Read More God Is Bigger Than Cancer — Caleb Sams
They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would not doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. (1 John 2:19) The words of John are blunt. There were certain… Read More Some Leave The Church, Leave The Lord – David R. Pharr
In the first century, multitudes of people abandoned their lives of sin and wickedness and obeyed the New Testament pattern (Acts 2:36-42; 4:1-4; 5:12-16). Today, the absolute necessity of teaching the same redeeming power of the gospel to every accountable person is just as urgent. Are we preaching the same pure gospel that the apostles… Read More The Challenge To Grow A Church – Brock Shanks
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