This is a pretty hard hitting article but he makes his point well. Here is the link. If you are a male Christian especially it might be wise for you to read this....

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard in a sermon or Bible class Romans 12:1-2. I am not certain how many times I have quoted this verse at different times to different people. It is a powerful verse on its own. But it is an even more powerful verse when heard in its original context. In Rom...

In case you missed it, Mike Cope is leaving Abilene and the Highland Church of Christ to work with Heartbeat ministries and Landon Saunders. Keep the Cope family in your prayers and pray that God can use Mike in a new way for the kingdom of God. Read Mike’s post about it here. Read about it at...

There are many dates that are etched into our memory. We hear July 4, 1776 and think indpendence, December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor, and on and on you could go. Then we have arbitrary dates that mark historical events that are difficult to date like December 25 and Christmas. But there is another date...

A couple of verses that have been used in the anti-baptism argument come from Romans 10. The first is found in Romans 10:9 - “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” That seems pret...

Romans 11 is probably the most difficult chapter in the entire book. As was mentioned in previous posts Paul is writing a letter to the church in Rome, which was a church he had never visited in person. In this letter he is dealing with divisions between Jewish Christians and Gentiles Christians and...

For those of you raising infants with the Babywise method, there is a great blog called Chronicles of a Babywise Mom that you will defintely want to check out. Babywise is a great method and has been really good in helping Jonah get on a decent schedule and at least sleep through the night. The prob...

I think this is a very thought provoking blog post over at Parchment and Pen. Here is the link. There is a sense in which God is happy when what we belief produces action. On the other hand, as mentioned in the last post on Romans 10, it is possible that we have lots of actions but can do so for all...

At the end of Romans 9, Paul writes about how some Gentiles have obtained righteousness by faith, while some Jews did not have faith in God that resulted in righteousness. Instead of building on Christ as the rock and chief cornerstone, they stumbled over him (Rom 9:30-33). As in the beginning of ch...

I recently ran across Harold Shank’s new blog. Dr. Shank preached at the Highland Church of Christ in Memphis for over 20 years and is now teaching Old Testament at Oklahoma Christian. I had Dr. Shank for the second semester of Hebrew at Harding Graduate School of Religion. He is an excellent ...