Monthly Archives: January 2009

Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: Living Water (En Gedi)

In the wilderness, water is very special. The Jews see God as the One who brings water. In the desert, water is life. Episode is filmed in a wadi canyon near the Dead Sea in the Judean wilderness — En … Continue reading

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A Lover’s Quarrel: Knowing Who the Enemy Really Is

Garrett’s eighth wish for the Churches of Christ is – Let us realize who the enemy really is. I doubt that I need to explain this one. We savage sister congregations that are trying their best to honor God. We … Continue reading

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Brother Fairasee

Thanks to Bob West, creator of Theophilus. By the way, Edward Fudge notes that Bob West is producing a comic-strip style set of serial Bible stories that he is offering to email as each new strip comes out. The series is … Continue reading

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A Lover’s Quarrel: More Responsibly Biblical

Garrett’s seventh wish for the Churches of Christ is – Let us become more responsibly biblical. We have supposed that the New Testament produced the church, when in fact it was the church that produced the New Testament. … The … Continue reading

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One Church

Thomas Campbell’s “Declaration and Address” was written in 1809. This is one of the founding documents of the Restoration Movement, written for the purpose of calling people away from division and sectarianism to join in a common communion, a single … Continue reading

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10 Stupid Things that Keep a Church from Growing

I read a review of this book — not yet released — and thought the partial list offered in the review worth mentioning – *  “Trying to do it all.” A comical quote at the bottom of the chapter page cleverly … Continue reading

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A Little Help?!

Okay, I’ve come to this self-realization. I need help.  You see, I just don’t have the patience to maintain this website like I should. I mean, I just updated my indexing system going back to November. I’ve been meaning to … Continue reading

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Woohoo! One In Jesus makes top 10 Church of Christ blogs

Over at Kingdom Living, Matt Dabbs has used the Alexa service to rank the 25 most popular Church of Christ blogs (and blog-like sites). Not surprisingly, the top 3 are Al Maxey, Edward Fudge, and the late Cecil Hook. Astonishingly, … Continue reading

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A Lover’s Quarrel: Radical Congregationalism

Garrett’s sixth wish is – Let us reject our radical congregationalism and become more responsibly organized for the tasks before us. No local church, nor group of area churches, can do what the church as a whole can do. We … Continue reading

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Why I Do This

I get emails – Jay,  In your “2008 Update” posting you included the following:  ”And (do you believe it?) David Graves will be teaching a class on my The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace at the Union Valley Church of … Continue reading

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