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“When I think of the moral decline on display in California today, the only word that comes to mind is ‘avalanche,'” Dudley Rutherford wrote in 2014. He presciently warned, “I hope you get the idea, because it’s coming to a town like yours” . . .
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“Bernel Getter, a young Wisconsin missionary who is home on furlough after five years in India’s Central Provinces because of a severe case of malaria,” told Midwestern church audiences in 1953 that, “denominationalism is Christianity’s greatest enemy in India” . . .
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In his well-known sermon “Playing Hurt,” Wayne Smith asked, “Will you stay in the game . . . even if you’ve been hurt? God had only one son without sin, but no son without sorrow. . . .”
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“For over forty years Mark Collis has ministered with Broadway Church, Lexington, Ky. Here he lets us into the secret—unblemished reputation, scrupulous use of time, patience, sense of humor, faithfulness to the New Testament teaching, and unselfishness.” . . .
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“What do you want to be known for?” Michael C. Mack asked in this article from 2010. “What would you want people to say about you when you die? What do you want written in your obituary?” These questions are all the more appropriate and poignant because Mike, our editor, died one week ago today. . . .
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“[M]ost ministers in practicing their calling pick up such bad habits in pulpit technique that after ten to fifteen years, most of them stand in need of professional help.” . . .
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In 2012, Daniel Overdorf and two friends examined 250 Christian Church and Church of Christ websites to determine how they presented their view of baptism to the public. Overdorf offers good suggestions for churches.
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In 1927, L.A. Chapman, minister in Bedford, Ohio, compiled this listing of Scripture verses that “answer the question, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ presented without note or comment.”
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Thirty years ago, Tom Claibourne posed several “what if” questions from the Bible. Examples: What if Mordecai had bowed down to Haman? What if Paul’s tent business had taken precedence over his ministry? . . .