Unprecedented. For reasons good and bad, no one will forget this year. If you ever doubted the power of the gospel or the influence of lives full of the fruit of the Spirit, just look around. God’s power and grace are visible. Not only has this church survived, she has grown and glorified Christ along… Read More »
New Testament Quiz
New Testament Bible Quiz How many books are there in the New Testament? ___ 39 ___ 27 ___ 66 ___ 12 What is the common name given to the first four books of the New Testament? ___ the Revelations ___ the Synopsis ___ the Gospels ___ the Acts Which of the following is NOT… Read More »
Bible Quiz 2.0
Faith And Worship Basics Quiz 2.0 What Scripture(s) would you use to teach someone they should contribute to the work of the local church on every first day of the week? What Scripture(s) would you use to teach that the life of Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy? What Scripture(s) would you… Read More »
May God Put Us In Order
If the Lord wills, the North Second Street Church of Christ will ordain elders in our congregation by March of 2021. This article is designed to explain and remind us of the process laid out and agreed to by the men of the congregation in November of 2019. We pray that everything, “should be done… Read More »
The Lord’s Supper Is Out Of This World
What do you do if you are a Christian and find yourself 250-miles above the earth on the first day of the week? You remember the body and blood of Jesus and declare the death of your Savior and Lord (I Corinthians 11:23-26)! That is what astronaut Victor Glover is doing on the International Space… Read More »
Wonder And Gratitude
“As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.”-Ecclesiastes 11:5 Americans celebrate an annual holiday of Thanksgiving on the final Thursday of November. Early European settlers gathered to thank God… Read More »
Don’t Be A Debbie Downer
I was reading my monthly edition of Pressing On1 magazine this week and realized every congregation is handling the coronavirus pandemic very differently. The theme of this month’s publication is, Corona Virus – Now What? It contained several articles detailing the many changes and hardships associated with this year and how local churches are coping. … Read More »
Funeral For A Friend
Editor’s note: I am screaming as I write this. Forgive me if it goes astray.-JS She was twenty-years younger than me. She could have been my daughter. I preached her funeral Thursday. There are still tears in my eyes. What a beautiful child. Not perfect but a Christian. She was raised in the church and… Read More »
Coming Out Of The Great Tribulation
The scientific prophets of our age paint a very troubling picture of the next five months. The novel coronavirus has already infected nine-million people in the United States and killed 230-thousand since March of 2020. With winter coming, combined with a regular increase in seasonal flu cases, current projections put this country’s death toll between… Read More »
In A World Of Information, Are We Any Smarter?
In 1986, Antonin Scalia smoked a pipe during his confirmation hearings to become a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. What society considers an acceptable indoor fire container isn’t the only thing to change over the last four decades. During this week’s questioning of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, much has… Read More »
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