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Impenitence & Revisionism

It’s an age-old scenario that’s been played out in countless local churches. It has wreaked havoc in innumerable families, yet is as predictable as humidity in August.

A Christian becomes involved in sin. Brethren try to reason with and restore the wanderer. The Christian, hardened by pride and often bolstered by biased friends and family members, refuses to repent. Finally, the local church withdraws its fellowship from the sinner in an effort to correct him. But instead of having his heart pricked, he has grown selfish enough to persist in his error and is lost to the Lord.

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June 14, 2009 | Articles

I Got Sick Of The World

“You were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18-19).

That Newspaper Article About Joshua’s Long Day

There is an article making its round in the bulletins about how the Bible aids space flight. The article was originally credited to The Evening World, a newspaper published in Spencer, Ind. Lately it has been credited to each preceding church bulletin. Each editor has added his comment about how wonderful it is that we have “solid evidence” that the Bible is true.

May 20, 2009 | Articles

Should Christians Observe Easter?

Easter is a widely-observed annual celebration commemorating the resurrection of Christ. You probably have noticed that Easter comes at a different time each year. “Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on or next after the vernal equinox (March 21 in the Gregorian calendar); if the full moon happens on Sunday Easter is celebrated one week later. Easter Sunday cannot be earlier than March 22 or later than April 25 ; dates of all other movable church feasts depend on that of Easter” (Webster).

May 10, 2009 | Articles

Mothers – The Heart Of The Family

Nations rise and fall, empires prosper or crumble and men are stirred to great accomplishments or driven to shameful failure often because of the influence of a wife or mother. The wise poet has properly said, “The hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world.”

May 10, 2009 | Articles

Faith Counted As Righteousness

“And [Abram] believed in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15:6).

It is lamentable how this verse has become the focal point for the controversy regarding the roles of faith and obedience based on its quotation in both Romans 4:3 and James 2:22-23. Paul uses the incident to show how Abram’s faith here justified him without any works; James speaks of how it is fulfilled when Abram demonstrates his obedience to God by being willing to offer Isaac his son upon the altar (cf. Genesis 22). Abram’s example does not teach either that faith only saves or that works save– Abram’s example shows us that we must have faith and be obedient to God in order to obtain the blessing.

May 3, 2009 | Articles

The Age Of The American Lust Child

My columns and other writings have long chronicled the decline of moral values in America. However, I must admit to being absolutely shocked when I read recently that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that nearly 40 percent of U.S. births in 2007 occurred outside of wedlock.

April 26, 2009 | Articles

Declaration and Address

(Following are the thirteen propositions of Thomas Campbell’s “Declaration and Address,” published September 7, 1809).

Let none imagine that the subjoined propositions are at all intended as an overture toward a new creed or standard for the Church, or as in any wise designed to be made a term of communion; nothing can be farther from our intention. They are merely designed for opening up the way, that we may come fairly and firmly to original ground upon clear and certain promises, and take up things just as the apostles left them; that thus disentangled from the accruing embarrassments of intervening ages, we may stand with evidence upon the same ground on which the Church stood at the beginning. Having said so much to solicit attention and prevent mistake, we submit as follows:

Funerals

Saying goodbye to someone you love is difficult – never more so than at a funeral, when we are saying it to someone we will never again see in the flesh. But saying goodbye is an important part of the grieving process. God has other things in store for us, and we must embrace them – without our dearly departed ones.

My Generation’s Moral Recession

There are high hopes for my generation, the Millennials, born between 1981 and 2001. We are to be the ones to stop global warming, cure cancer, and solve most of the world’s other problems. After all, the Millennials helped elect Barack Obama, who championed hope and change. Once America has weathered the current economic crisis, we Millennials will be called upon to bring the economy into the middle of this century — to take risks, create jobs, and elevate the nation to the next level of achievement by replacing our retiring entrepreneurs.

April 5, 2009 | Articles

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