[Moved and expanded from a comment I made in Part 1]
For some reason, I’ve been consulted in a number of church conflicts in the last few years, sometimes as a lawyer, sometimes as an elder, sometimes because of my blogging here. Some of the disputes have been outside the Churches of Christ — Baptists and Christian Churches, for example. And I’ve learned a few things.
First, regardless of denomination, churches get into fights and sometimes split. Some splits are accomplished by part of the church leaving and joining another church down the road, but it’s still a split even though no new congregation is created. Continue reading
Several months ago, the Abilene Christian University bookstore found a stash of old inventory and put it on sale for next to nothing. I ordered one of everything, and to my delight, got Leroy Garrett’s autobiography, A Lover’s Quarrel, for 50 cents. What a bargain!
We call this the “Lord’s Supper,” but we often forget why. You see, Jesus not only instituted this meal, he promised to be with us when we eat it.
Sepphoris was a wealthy city about 3 miles from Nazareth, under construction at the time Jesus was working as a carpenter. Nazareth may have had 300 people, while Sepphoris may have had 20,000 or 30,000 residents.
This month’s issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review has 
