Some of you Twitter. Some of you probably don’t know what that is. (Twitter is a “mini-blog” service that lets you post status updates of 140 characters or less. Each one of these short status updates is called a tweet. Incidentally, the green “retweet” button you see on our posts lets you re-post — “re-tweet” [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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The Southern Hills Church of Christ in Buda TX today began a daily Bible reading plan. In conjunction with that plan, they also launched a new blog, SHCOC Daily Bible Reading. They will be making a short post every day with thoughts on that day’s reading. I’d like to recommend this blog not only for [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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My longtime friend Jim Martin is a minister of the gospel in Waco TX, and writes what is, according to recent stats, the #9 “Church of Christ blog”. Jim began a series of articles yesterday titled 41 Things Married People Ought to Know. In part 1 he lists the first 10, including these 5:
Married people [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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Much of what encouragement I receive from the Bible comes in the New Testament. Since Paul wrote a great percentage of the New Testament books, he has been a great encouragement to me. I thought about how to share that encouragement with you, and decided to let Paul speak for himself. Not all of the [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by doc
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13Consider the work of God;
For who can make straight what He has made crooked?
14In the day of prosperity be joyful,
But in the day of adversity consider:
Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other,
So that man can find out nothing that will come after him.
Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
I don’t have much to add to that; [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed — not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence — continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. Philippians 2:12-13
Outside of a [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
Filed under: Faith, Growth, Salvation, Works | 1 Comment »
You don’t have to search very far to find some “doom & gloomer” tell you the church is dying. You also don’t have to go very far to see a church in which many of its young people “give their lives to Christ”, then a year or two after they leave home, most of those [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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30Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him. 31He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. 32He [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Bob Mathews
Filed under: Bible Characters, Forgiveness, Grace, Growth, Humility, Love, Old Testament | No Comments »
By guest blogger, Jim Martin
We all begin the week in much the same way. We have 7 days this week. Each day has 24 hours. Whether you are sitting in front of a computer all day, teaching first graders, or traveling across the country for meetings this week, each day has the same number of [...]
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Jim Martin
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I’ve been a Christian for 47 years. In that amount of time I’ve had several “Aha!” moments, which I like to call “hermeneutical epiphanies“. I’ve written about some of those in previous posts. One passage that particularly sticks in my mind from years past is Psalm 32:1-2, as quoted by the apostle Paul in the [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2009 by Bob Mathews
Filed under: Faith, Forgiveness, Growth, Humility, Security | 2 Comments »
