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What do atheists look like? Do they have tattoos and piercings? Do they look rough and rebellious? Do they drive cars with ACLU bumper stickers? Or do they have a look of smug arrogance and intellectual superiority? What if I told you that many atheists look just like the couple in the picture to the …
This past week, I had a rather interesting experience while teaching 20 maximum security inmates at the Knox county jail. I thought I’d share it with you. For the most part, the men we teach in cell block 1-A have reached rock bottom. Just the day before our last study, one of the men was …
(Yesterday morning, a brother told me that this news story would make a good article. He even gave me the title for the article. I’m just filling in the blanks). Just yesterday, I learned of the death of Jamie Coots. Jamie died after being bitten by a poisonous snake during a “snake handling church service.” …
Social injustice, homosexual marriage, divorce, cohabitation, adultery, premarital sex, pornography, abortion, casual drug use, the rejection of absolutes, the immorality of the entertainment industry…these are a representative sample of some of the things our culture embraces today. Can the church survive such moral degradation? Can it survive 21st century American culture, or will it become …
Today, I drove 50 miles from the campus of Freed-Hardeman University to take a picture of an old abandoned church building. This building formerly housed the Hickory Plains Church of Christ. In 1982 and 1983, I took turns every other Sunday preaching at this congregation while I was a student in college. Every other Sunday, …