By Tyler Edwards Your church may be small. Your God isn’t. Smaller churches will typically have fewer resources than their mega-brethren, but that doesn’t mean their mission is different. The Great Commission wasn’t given to churches with fancy buildings and large staffs. It was given to high school dropouts who hardly had enough talent […]
Daniel’s prayer–The Uniform Lesson for March 10, 2013
By Sam E. Stone “The events of Daniel 9 were triggered by the reading of Scripture,” explains James E. Smith. “Daniel had access to a collection of prophetic literature which included the scroll of Jeremiah. He noted in Jeremiah 25:11 that the desolations of Jerusalem were to end after the termination of the seventy […]
In the World — March 3, 2013
By Christy Barritt Americans at 13-Month Low Earlier this year, Gallup’s Life Evaluation Index, which measures how Americans feel about their current and future lives, fell to 47.2 on a scale of zero to 100. The number has been in decline for months. The index also showed a partisan split in the scores, verifying […]
Taking Christ to the Community
By Kayleen Reusser In 2011 seven schools in the East Allen County School district of Fort Wayne, Indiana, closed. The 120 members of Colony Heights Church of Christ were concerned for the children who were affected by the closings. “The main focus of the Colony Heights Church of Christ is to encourage Christian unity,” […]
Lessons from an Unlikely Source
By Ava Pennington Christians are to be light in a dark world. Salt in a corrupt society. In the world, but not of the world. Our culture has much to learn about the one true God and what it means to belong to him. It seems almost sacrilegious to think the world has something […]