By Dick Blackford Among preachers there is a wide variety of interests, preaching styles and abilities. The desires of brethren to listen to a particular preacher is often gauged by these. One is either turned on or turned off by one or more of them. It is of interest to notice that none of these says …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
My Drug Problem
It’s not easy owning up to this. I am very reluctant to expose a problem that started in my childhood, but it if confession is good for the soul, maybe I’ll feel better. I can’t really say when my problem started because it seems it’s always been with me. When I was less than a …
1950s: Seedbed for Current Liberalism
By Richard Boone What has brought us to the present day? What lies ahead in the future? To answer these and other important questions, it is wise and useful for us to study our past. That is what this article is all about. For the last 40 years a division has existed among churches of Christ …
The Problem Of Church Cooperation
By David Hartselle A year ago, while sitting in a Chinese restaurant in Czechoslovakia, I spoke with another American preacher. I asked if he believed that Christians could scripturally worship God with mechanical instruments of music. He said, “Yes.” He then suggested that the Bible was not really a pattern at all but rather a “general …