How do you measure the success of an eldership process? Certainly, the best outcome is the ordination of a plurality of men who come to the office with the congregation at peace and little to no objection to be overcome. But what does it mean if men are selected but never installed? Sound familiar? I… Read More »
Year In Review 2021
Believe it or not, this Sunday marks the beginning of our third year dealing with COVID-19. It is a relentless enemy full of deadly poison. Every time it seems the fog of this disease is about to be burned off by the sun of normalcy, it again becomes so dense you cannot see the horizon. … Read More »
The Hoary Head And Delayed Justice
“Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.”-Leviticus 19:32 (KJV) The phrase “hoary head” refers to a man with gray or white hair. We don’t use the word “hoary” much anymore but to an Englishman from 400-years ago,… Read More »
Is It Worth The Warm And Fuzzies?
It is all so grand. The Christmas play, the Nativity scene, the midnight mass, Linus, and all the talk about the “Christ child.” It allows us to tut-tut a little public morality about how commercialism has made all those worldly, sinners forget “Jesus is the reason for the season.” In fact, why don’t we have… Read More »
About The Number Two
Plurality; Merriam-Webster defines the word as, “the state of being plural.” That’s not much help. Dictionary.com is a little more to the point with, “a number greater than one.” So, one is not a plurality of anything but two or more is. We must have two for there to be a plurality. The number two… Read More »
A New Congregation
[Editor’s Note: Editha Kern passed away this week. Her husband Olin Kern (1934-2009) married my parents (Norman and Jane Sage), eulogized my mother, and was the preacher for the Central Church of Christ in Charlotte, Tennessee at its birth. Brother Kern wrote the following article for Searching The Scriptures in October, 1963. It details the… Read More »
A Time For Choosing, 2022
“And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.”-Acts 14:23 In January of 2021, this congregation completed an 18-month process of selecting men to be ordained as overseers in the church of Christ at North Second Street. The… Read More »
Show Yourself To The Priest
[Editor’s note: Please read this article in its entirety. It is intended as equal parts salt and grace. If the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t wear it. Love ya!-JS] “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”-Luke 5:14 Our world changed 18-months… Read More »
The Last Of What Is Green
As I looked out my window this week, I saw a small bird hurriedly plucking off the last of the green shoots from our crepe myrtle. Summer is gone and the dry season comes on quickly. Shorter days, falling leaves, and empty nut shells left by industrious squirrels lead us toward the dark days of… Read More »
The Word Of God Is A Blessing
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”-Hebrews 4:12 What would the Christian church be without the word of God? Certainly, much of the religious world… Read More »
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