One of my favorite things is when people ask Bible questions. Some are nearly impossible to answer (How many angels can fit on the point of a pen?). But any biblical question displays a desire to know about spiritual things. What is better than that?!?!? Last week, Shirley Hundley asked me if going to space… Read More »
Why Study Genesis?
For many, the Bible really starts with the first verse of Matthew chapter one. Any time we study from the Old Testament, someone will come up to me and say some version of this, “I hope we don’t stay in this long. We need to hear about Jesus.” They will complain the Old Testament isn’t… Read More »
Listening To God (How to Understand the Bible)
“To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”-Luke 4:6-7 Is the verse above from the Bible? Is it inspired, accurate, and divinely revealed? Can it be… Read More »
Put In Order 2022
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 »
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