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Greek scholar Owen Crouch was mentioned earlier this week in an article about Del Harris’s induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Dr. Crouch served several Christian colleges and wrote 10 books. Today we share an article from 1953 that Dr. Crouch wrote about Acts 2:44-45.
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Forty years ago, Christian Standard’s editor polled readers on the “most crucial” issues facing the Restoration Movement. He promised to steer editorial content toward the themes considered most important. The results were announced June 13, 1982 . . .
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— UPDATED WITH TRIBUTE VIDEO INFORMATION — Dwayne Good, 85, who performed in the gospel duet The Good Twins with his identical twin brother, Dwight, for more than 55 years, died on April 10, 2022. The brothers graduated from Lincoln Bible Institute together in 1958, and ministered through music to churches around the world as The Good Twins for more than 55 years. We interviewed The Good Twins for this 2008 feature article.
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“Have we outgrown the plea?” Will Sweeney is still right. The answer is, “No.” For to outgrow the plea, we would have to outgrow the Bible. . . .
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“I cannot remember when I first decided to enter the ministry,” James B. North wrote in 1978. “It seems the decision has always been with me.” Later in life, he learned the rest of the story. (Dr. North died earlier this week.)
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Here is a column about aging by our friend Dr. Robert F. Hull Jr., a longtime seminary professor who passed away on Saturday. Hull wrote: “It is more important to live wisely than to live long.”
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“We have so long listened to prattle about the sermon being a work of art that we have come to believe it,” Joseph H. Dampier wrote in 1941. “The sermon should not be a work of art; it should be a tool and the art should be the work it accomplishes.”
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Blanche Claycomb wrote in 1972, “A memory I shall always treasure is a mental picture of our eldest son. Jim was about fifteen months old, and the sights and sounds of Christmas filled his little eyes and heart with joy.” . . .
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Luke takes us to Bethlehem and gives us a glimpse of the events that transpired on that memorable night when Jesus was born. No other message in all literature has so blessed men, women, and children as this account of the birth of Jesus as recorded by Luke, the physician.