Church of CHRIST

Benjamin Franklin once described a man of his acquaintance as “so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”  Here was a man long on knowledge but short on wisdom.  He knew all the answers, but in reality failed even to understand the question. Too… Read More »

Our entertainment-crazed world, both in the world and in the pew, has made clear its demands:  preaching the “connects,” that “feels good,” that “entertains while meeting emotional and social needs”; preaching that isn’t “preachy,” with more jokes and less Jesus, more stories and less substance, more positive thinking and less mention of personal sacrifice; in short,… Read More »

How do we go about the business of uniting our divided, fragmented religious world?  We know that Jesus prayed to the Father asking for such unity (John 17:20,21), but just how do we bring it about? Should we ignore our faith-based differences, disregard our conflicting doctrines, and simply agree to disagree?  As appealing as this approach might… Read More »

The darker the night, the dimmer the day, As embers of memories flicker away, When the brightening goodness of life seems long past, When the worst from the best of us leaves us aghast, This truth I continue to settle upon, My choices are mine and I choose to shine on.   I know I… Read More »

We live in a strange age of short cash, easy credit, and out-of-control covetousness.  Confusing wants for needs, too many of us race through life in a mad scramble for more and more of less and less, leaving us never never fully satisfied, never completely content.  Ours has become a world governed by greed. Jesus… Read More »

Some folks just can’t seem to get along with anybody.  And more than a few of these trouble-makers are proudly wearing the name of our Lord.  Forgetting or ignoring Peter’s admonition to “love as brothers,” these Christ-less Christians continue to cause “divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which (they) have learned.”  (1 Peter 3:8;… Read More »

I understand that when General Eisenhower was running for the presidency in the early 50’s, he often told a story of an old farmer who was trying to sell a cow.  The farmer was asked about the cow’s pedigree.  He replied that he didn’t know what a “pet-er-gree” was.  The farmer asked about the butter-fat… Read More »

Artemus Ward, a well-known humorist during the time of this country’s Civil War, once playfully boasted, “I have already given my two cousins to the war, and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.”   Needless to say, Ward is not remembered by historians as playing a major role in that conflict. According to the… Read More »

“Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.”  (1 Timothy 1:13.) The church designed and built of heaven was never meant to be an envoy of compromising diplomats, but rather an army of battle-ready Christian soldiers.  The spirit of compromise may be… Read More »

Today’s flippant attitude toward marriage is nothing new.  According to Edward Gibbons, the renowned historian, the divorce problem was one of five underlying causes contributing to the fall of the Roman Empire.  Seneca spoke of Roman women as married to be divorced and divorced to be married.  Many citizens of Rome were said to have… Read More »