Even in the church, things are not always as they should be. The world is too much with us, and we do not always notice until it is too late. With the condition America is in today, and the things that are so readily available…in stores, on TV, or the computer…it is too easy for [...]
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by doc
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I have heard many preachers affirm that anger is never an attribute of God; therefore, it is a sin for a man to become angry. I believe we need to rethink that. I do agree that anger is not a trait that men need to cultivate, but I do not agree that God has never [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2010 by doc
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Right. This is another topic that is hotly debated and regarding which, for some strange reason, most Christians don’t want to be counted. Time after time, I have seen situations where Christians have avoided voicing their opinion because it was not “politically correct.” Maybe one of the reasons is that the average Christian knows that [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2010 by doc
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Are there people in the world who teach things not in accordance with God’s will? Are there those who teach error that could cause one to be lost? Are there “false teachers” in the world today? Does it make any difference what we believe, as long as we are sincere in our belief? The answer [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by doc
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While driving from Dallas to Austin recently, I saw a banner with that phrase on it — 30-minute worship. My reaction was, Really? So who’s this targeting? People who just can’t be bothered to give more than 30 minutes out of their busy life to Jesus on Sunday morning? I’m pretty sure Jesus didn’t respond [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 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 [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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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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Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Saviour? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the [...]
Posted on July 4th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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That’s the title of a book I started reading over the weekend. It’s actually a fairly short book, but with other things stealing my time, it’s taken me a while to finish it. Part fiction, part nonfiction, it’s taken a good bit from the experiences of the author, who lost both parents as a teenager [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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A post yesterday on the Christian PF blog got me thinking about a fairly common practice. Let me ask you this: When someone offers to do something nice for you or to give you something, what’s your first response? If you’re out to dinner with a friend, and she picks up the check, do you [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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