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07 Feb 2021

Step Up to the Plate

February 7, 2021
Lifeline Publications
112 Views
Elderships, Leadership

Some years ago I helped coach the Little League baseball team on which our son, Robbie, was playing. As an assistant, my place was in the dugout with the boys when we were at bat. I remember one game in which we were getting beaten pretty good. The other team […]

16 Aug 2020

The Woman’s Head Covering

August 16, 2020
Lifeline Publications
179 Views
Head Covering, Leadership, Practical Living, Women In The Bible

1 Cor. 11:2-16 is the passage where Paul deals with the woman’s head covering. Underlying this entire discussion is a foundational statement recorded in verse three: “But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and […]

30 Dec 2018

Consider Carefully What You Can Do

December 30, 2018
Lifeline Publications
157 Views
Congregation, Giving, Leadership, Practical Living

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God has dealt to each man a measure of faith, (Rom. […]

23 Dec 2018

What Makes A Great Church

December 23, 2018
Lifeline Publications
161 Views
Congregation, Family, Leadership, The Lord's Church

Each of us should want the local church to be as great as it can be. Even when things are going well, the congregation is growing, and times are exciting for us, we should strive to improve wherever we can. There is always room for improvement, and there are some […]

09 Dec 2018

Presidents And The Bible

December 9, 2018
Lifeline Publications
167 Views
Leadership, Practical Living, The Lord's Church

For each of the last 30 consecutive weeks I have published in the Bulletin a quotation from one of our nation’s presidents. These quotations have all been supportive of the Bible as God’s word and Christianity as the preferred way of life. They have shown what our highest leaders have […]

18 Nov 2018

Extremist Thinking In The Church

November 18, 2018
Lifeline Publications
152 Views
Congregation, Leadership, The Lord's Church

Maybe you have heard about the distracted driver who was getting into the edge of the road, when he over-corrected and swerved directly into the path of oncoming traffic. We have a tendency to go “from one extreme to the other.” Some brethren are like that. They seem to have […]

29 Jul 2018

Cutting The Roots – But Still Expecting Fruit

Here’s a quote from the U.S. Supreme Court which may surprise you: “Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament? Where are benevolence, the love of truth, sobriety, and industry, so powerfully and irresistibly inculcated as in the sacred […]

20 May 2018

Things Visitors Notice

May 20, 2018
Lifeline Publications
174 Views
Congregation, Leadership

I have visited the services of a great many congregations. We have long made it a point to visit when we travel. Over the years, I have been in literally hundreds of assemblies of other congregations, in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Canada, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, […]