By Mike Willis The national news networks recently used long segments to report the ordination of Barbara Harris as the first Episcopalian bishop. Ms. Harris’ appointment was more a statement to the world of the doctrinal stance of the Episcopalian Church than the filling of a need by the best qualified person to serve. Ms. Harris …
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Bad Companions of a Different Sort
By Joanna Peterson All my friends are Christians, therefore I am safe from corruption, I smugly thought to myself. Didn’t I see these friends every Sunday and Wednesday at worship as well as social gatherings on weekends? Staying at home with my two little girls, I no longer had to listen to fellow workers cursing and …
Have Ye Not Read?
By Hoyt H. Houchen Question: In Matthew 27:36 we read: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My Got, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Did God actually forsake Jesus while he was dying on the cross? Reply: This statement of Jesus is one …
The Way It Was — 1865 – The Way It Is – 1989
By Barney Keith History has a way of repeating itself, doesn’t it? In April 1865 Moses E. Lard, one of the “Pioneer” preachers, was disturbed as he saw various things happening among churches of Christ. Writing in Lard’s Quarterly (Vol. II, p. 257) he referred to certain developments as “ill-omened symptoms in our ranks.” Among other …
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