Category Archives: Church

Does Acts 6 Authorize Church Committees?

Author : Ronny Milliner used by permission from Faith & Facts, January 2007 There was a time when brethren spoke against the idea of churches having committees. Several examples can be given. Brother Foy E. Wallace, Jr. wrote in the … Continue reading

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Congregational Benevolence

Author : Keith Sharp Robert Jackson tells how he walked into the dry cleaners one day, and the owner, a long time friend, said, “Brother Jackson, I’ve just got to ask you something. Someone told me a little baby was … Continue reading

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Discipline

Author : Les Maydell The word discipline literally means “to save the mind” or “to have a sound mind,” 2 tim. 1:7: For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. The … Continue reading

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The Old Testament and Christian Worship

Author : Jeff Asher used by permission via The Preceptor, May 1988 Then he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the … Continue reading

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How to Deal with Needs Among Brethren

  Beloved brethren. I write these words because I am truly concerned about your needs. As many of you know, I have raised help for different needs in the past. In some cases, time revealed that there was dishonesty in … Continue reading

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How Small Congregations And Poor Brethren Can Do Great Things For God

Author : Les Maydell We are not the first ones of God’s people to be overwhelmed by the work God has given us to do. When a small remnant of God’s people came back to Canaan after being slaves in … Continue reading

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The Kingdom of God is Here (Part 1)

Author : Emannuel (Manny) Ebong The Kingdom of God is the Church (of Christ) It is true that some people are still expecting the kingdom of God to come. But the kingdom has already come and was established on the … Continue reading

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Thy Kingdom Come

Author : William J. Stewart (via lookinguntojesus.net) Matthew 6:9-13 records for us what has been called by most “The Lord’s Prayer”. The Lord had no intention for this prayer to be collectively repeated (as is done in some assemblies), but … Continue reading

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Should A Christian Join A Local Church?

Author : Keith Sharp Scripturally, there is such a thing as a local church (congregation) in distinction to the universal church, which is the one body of Christ (Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 1:22-23; 4:4). Paul wrote “the church of God which … Continue reading

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Congregational Cooperation For Evangelism

Author : Keith Sharp Once I spoke by phone to an institutional preacher who works with a large congregation in South Texas. As we conversed he asked if I was “anti-cooperation.” I told him I knew what he was talking … Continue reading

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