There is an undeniable, God-given instinct to sit by a fire on the brief days of winter and snuggle loved ones during those seemingly interminable nights. For thousands of years, human society followed the seasons in an effort to stay alive and feed their families. When a family had planted, tended, harvested, and stored the… Read More »
Am I Seeking To Please God?
How I answer the question in the title has a huge impact on my understanding of God’s word. Doy Moyer, minister and professor with the Florida College Biblical Studies department, asked a similar question on his Facebook page this week, “Are We Looking for Questions or Answers?” The person looking to please God will take… Read More »
Nothing New Under The Sun
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”-Ecclesiastes 1:9 My friend, Brooks Cochran, gave me a book consisting of a series of David Lipscomb’s answers to reader’s questions from the years 1866 to 1910. Lipscomb was the editor… 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 »
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 »
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 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 »
The Instrument and Societies
I ran across an article describing the introduction of an organ into the worship service of the Broadway Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky. The instrument was “voted in” in November of 1902. This came despite the objection of a famous and beloved preacher and elder in the congregation named J.W. McGarvey. This incident brings up… Read More »
Welcome To Our Weekly Easter Service
Welcome to the worship service of the Christians who assemble at North Second Street. If you are a visitor, you may be surprised to know we do not observe Easter as a religious holiday. If you came to see a passion play acted out by our members, you may be disappointed. If it seems like… Read More »
The Lord’s Supper: Command, Example, & Inference
Eating the Lord’s supper on a weekly basis has been a distinctive feature of congregations dedicated to restoring New Testament practices to the church. While Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches have consistently observed weekly communion, the Lord’s Supper was relegated to a quarterly or even bi-annual observance in America’s Protestant denominations. In fact, the… Read More »