Just suppose for a moment that a mother gives her child a beautiful flower-plant in bloom, and tells her to carry it to a sick friend. The child takes the plant away, and when she reaches the friend’s door, she plucks off one leaf and gives it to her, keeping the plant itself.

We’ve all heard the popular saying, “Go with the flow.” To some people that saying means behaving as most other people do without trying to swim against the current of the

Let’s say that you’re a Christian and people decided they wanted to be just like you — a perfect carbon copy. Would you urge them to do so? Paul did not hesitate. He pleaded with the Philippians, “Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us” […]

We’ve all met scoffers who thoughtlessly parrot the phrase, “The church is full of hypocrites!” But let’s not be thoughtless in our response and dismiss such pronouncements without taking heed lest they be true.

Brother Stan Mitchell (scroll down for bio), one of the writers for Forthright Magazine, provides us some excellent characteristics of biblical love in his recent article entitled, “Hypocritical?“:

This morning, I was looking at the B.C. Comic strip, in which one of the characters was putting what looked like a ten dollar bill into a “swear jar” because he rolled a piano over his toes. In other words, the greater the infraction, the more money the guilty party would throw into the jar.

Chemosh (see article) is not your average household name. In fact, you probably have never heard of him. Why would you? He doesn’t belong in the 21st century….or does he?

Do we believe that God exists because of some “leap of faith” or is there evidence for God’s existence? God “did not leave Himself without witness” (Acts 14:17). There is

On July 25, 1911, a circus stuntman named Bobby Leach went over Niagara Falls in a specially designed steel drum and lived to tell about it. Although he suffered minorinjuries, he survived because he recognized the tremendous dangers involved in the feat, and he had done everything he could to protect himself from harm. Amazingly, […]

On June 2, 1960, there was a news story about an eight-year-old boy by the name of Walter Sedor being found

As I wait at our local grocery store checkout stand, I sometimes scan the covers of the magazines displayed there. It seems that if they aren’t about the sexual escapades of the rich and famous, they’re about diet, fitness, health, and outward beauty. The sad thing is, there’s nothing available in the above magazines for […]

A querist asks, “There are sincere religious folks who believe in the doctrine of soul-sleeping. They use Ecclesiastes 9:5 as a proof text for their doctrine. They believe that the dead are oblivious to their surroundings and know absolutely nothing. Is the doctrine of soul-sleeping true? If not, please provide us scriptures to refute it.”

The Roman Emperor, Caesar, was once sailing with his armed men on a campaign against Greece. They encountered a severe storm and fears were great. Caesar attempted to calm the fears of the sailors by reminding them with these words: “Remember you carry Caesar and his fortunes.”

Death often steals from us the ones we love, but as followers of Christ — the separation is only temporary. The resurrection of Jesus assures us that just as death could not hold Him (Acts 2:22-24), so too the tomb cannot cling to the children, parents, relatives, and friends

About eight years after I was born, my father met a stranger who was new to our small Texas town. From the beginning, he was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our

In raising our children, we may be inclined to give them everything and ask nothing from them in return. On the surface, this may seem to be an expression of genuine love, but in so doing, we are actually teaching our children to expect everything and to give nothing.

Do we remember when telephones were for making simple phone calls? Today, cell-phone applications, or “apps” as they are called, allow us the capability of reading daily news reports, sports scores,

A querist asks, “If a person has been disfellowshipped by a congregation, should that congregation notify other area congregations of their action so they are aware of the

From the Braggs church of Christ in Braggs, Oklahoma, comes the following article written by Brother Ron Boatwright. His article provides us with twenty-six sources for reaching people with the

There was time when I thought the word “compassion” had to do with self-giving and the outpouring of one’s spirit. However, when I looked the word up in the dictionary, I discovered that compassion is not so much an outpouring, as it is a “strong desire to alleviate the suffering” of an individual or individuals.