All intelligent people want to know the truth, we assume, though
some search more diligently and open-mindedly for it than others.
All of us are aware that there is much misinformation spread
deliberately by the media, politicians, and most everybody who has
an agenda — even preachers! So it is not easy to find the truth.
Added to all this [...]
Col 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
What does it mean to do everything “in the name of the Lord Jesus?” A simple Google search confirms that many people in churches of Christ understand [...]
Hot water doesn’t last very long, no matter how hot your setting? Could be a bad dip tube. The dip tube is a plastic tube, inside the water heater, that carries cold water to the bottom of the tank. It can disintegrate over time (sometimes totally), allowing incoming cold water to immediately mix with outgoing hot water. Not good!
A very simple dip [...]
When I was a boy I loved to find a sitting hen’s nest when the chicks were hatching. It was fascinating to me to watch the baby chick emerge and often it was too much of a temptation for me not to help the chick out of its shell. To my disappointment many of the [...]
One of the most well known “invitation” songs is “Just As I Am”. It conjures up in our minds the notion that wherever we might be in our journey called life, God invites us where we are. Didn’t Phillip begin teaching the nobleman from Ethiopia where he was? And the eunuch just happened to be [...]
It has always been somewhat disconcerting to me to know that there are those within Christendom who seemingly rely upon perfection of perception and practice for their justification and salvation. If we can all just “get it right” in our journey to heaven, we shall be found worthy to enter that eternal realm. Fail to [...]
I think what we find within the early church, and especially in the teachings of the apostles and their representatives, was a primary focus upon JESUS (i.e., who He was and what He did for us). Today, on the other hand, as Charles Hodge once said, we assume people already know about Jesus, so our [...]
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