By Garreth L. Clair Today much emphasis is placed upon getting a good education so that we will be able to make a good living, advance in socially accepted circles, be informed, live relevantly to the now-age, etc. I sometimes wonder if we are not educating ourselves into Hell, when men consider their wisdom and intellectual …
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Quit Starving Them
By Rick Smith I remember it so vividly! The radio dispatcher assigned a signal 7, which is a death call. I parked the squad car in front of a tumbledown house situated in the slum area of our city. I recall the feeling I had walking into a house burdened with death. Ironically, the burden was …
It Has Happened According to the True Proverb
By Mike DuBose In the May 28, 1972 edition of the Nashville Tennessean newspaper an article entitled “Church Choice Cost 3 Jobs at Lipscomb” made front page news. The article explained how three faculty members at David Lipscomb College had been “dismissed” because the teachers worship at Belmont Avenue Church of Christ in Nashville. As I …
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Suggestive of a New Name
By Fred A. Shewmaker Since 1957 I have had in my possession a tract entitled “What Is The Church of Christ”. The following Statement appears on the inside back cover of this tract: “The material in this article was presented in a sermon on January 23, 1955 at the Hillsboro Church of Christ, 2206 Hillsboro Road, …