Barbs …. With A Point

Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles

The following barbs of wisdom come from The Sword and Staff publication, 2012, Volume 50, Number 2; pg. 13 (appropriate Scriptures and related articles have been added):

Dead wood doesn’t produce any fruit.

If you live life on the edge, you may go off on the deep end.

A thankful people do not murmur and complain.

Life can become pretty demeaning when we don’t live within our means.

If we have had our sins “blotted out” (Acts 3:19) and then go back into sin, not overcoming, we will have our names “blotted out” of the book of life (Revelation 3:5; Revelation 20:15).

We need to “wise up” for when we “dumb down” the religion of Christ, it is no longer Christianity.

Nations decline because the morals of their citizens have declined.

When we come face to face with God, we will come face to face with ourselves and realize just how awful our sins and shortcomings really are (Isaiah 6:1-5).

If we try to justify our children in their sins, we will be condemned with them (1 Samuel 2).

Fasting and praying were much in evidence in the early church, whereas feasting and playing conspicuously characterize the modern church.

Many times, life throws us a curve ball when we are not even up to bat.

A church that compromises the truth of Christ, does not comprise a faithful church of Christ.

If the perverted practice of homosexuality is not wrong, there is no such thing as right and wrong.

If we do not learn from the mistakes of the past (ours and others), the future will further be filled with them.

Fast living will move you toward death and the judgment a little faster (Hebrews 9:27).

When the high tide of worldliness engulfs the church, we can expect many lives to be spiritually shipwrecked.

Many times, we are not getting anything done because we are not doing anything.

In our zeal to return to the church of the New Testament, let us not preach a church-centered message instead of the Christ-centered message (1 Corinthians 2:2).

If we would be the church in the Bible, we must have the Bible in the church (and that alone as our rule of faith and practice).

Real success in life is not determined in terms of dollars and cents (Joshua 1:1-8).

When we exalt people a little too high, it will only be a matter of time until we see that they have feet of clay.

We live in a day when people want to work less and less for more and more.

To forsake the assembly (Hebrews 10:25), which is the body of Christ (Colossians 1:18; Colossians 4:16), is to forsake Christ.

If God is not our “common denominator“ in life, life can become pretty common (Acts 1:15-20; 2 Timothy 4:9-10).