Someone has observed that God has not called us to be lawyers, but lovers.
We in the Church of Christ have developed some strange concepts of Christ’s law. We seem to conceive of a system of law half revealed and half concealed in biography, historical accounts, treatises, personal letters, and prophecy. Clues to the laws are [...]
Some time ago, as I sat listening to Dr. Hillery Motsinger talk about the Family Upreach ministry ( a Christian ministry to prison and jail inmates and their families ) my thoughts were prompted by what he called “a fish tale.” As he related the story of a young woman who had been reached in [...]
Comedian Emo Philips tells a story.
“In conversation with a person I recently met, I asked, ‘Are you a Protestant or Catholic? ‘
My new acquaintance replied, ‘Protestant.”
I said, ‘Me, too! ‘What franchise?’
He answered,’Baptist.’
‘Me, too!’ I said. Northen Baptist or Southern Baptist?’
“Northern Baptist,’ he replied.
‘Me, too!’ I shouted.
We continued to go back and forth. Finally I asked, [...]
Because we do
All things together
All things improve
Even weather.
Our daily meat
And bread taste better
Trees greener,
Rain wetter.
I don’t make a habit of reading poetry, but I ran across this Paul Engle, short poem as I was glancing through a literature textbook recently. I don’t think I have ever read a better description of the whole purpose of [...]
Let me tell you about two young people I know. I’ll call them Jack and Jill.
Jack is eighteen years old. Jack was in honors classes when he started high school, before he was suspended for punching an assistant principal.
Jack lives with his mother although she doesn’t want him or his older brother or his little [...]
A Fable - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter “Little Prig”.
Bun replied,
“You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not so large as you,
You [...]
Communion Commentary Concerns
William Penn (1644-171 once wrote, “Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.” Let’s be honest with ourselves — too frequently those who assume for themselves the right and privilege [...]
As I read this book, I am reminded of Philip and the Ethiopian.
Acts 8: 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in [...]
Paul makes this argument in Romans 2:
25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. 26If those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? 27The one who is not [...]
Edward is always good, but this one is outstanding.
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Edward Fudge
POOR IN SPIRIT
A gracEmail reader in the Middle East writes, “Someone recently prayed for help in becoming ‘poor in spirit.’ I want to receive the blessing Jesus promises to those who are poor in spirit, but I don’t know whether I am rich or poor in [...]
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