10+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1598+ words) SEVIERVILLE, TENN. — Jesus is the Great Physician, but he has many fields of expertise, keynote speakers preached at Polishing the Pulpit. David Crutchfield leads PTP attendees in a cappella worship. “He went to the university of hard knocks,” said Dan…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1187+ words) Like Jesus urged his followers to do, Dolly Parton loved her neighbors. But what about loving her enemies, another biblical commandment? I’m guessing the entertainment icon, whose death Tuesday at age 80 sent shockwaves around the world, found that more difficult…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (547+ words) At Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., where I teach history, we begin each class with a verse of the day to encourage students and give them a grounding, reorienting start to the morning. N.T. Wright. “The Vision of Ephesians:…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1062+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Many Christians know the routine. Church service ends, and it’s time to visit, but really there’s not much time to visit. They might have children to round up. They might need to hurry home to prepare lunch,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (629+ words) Churches of Christ in Colombia expressed gratitude Wednesday for the support they received after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the South American nation, killing more than 300 people and destroying some 29,000 homes. “Brothers and sisters, you don’t know how grateful we are…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (915+ words) ‘I’m sorry to tell you, but your church is on fire.” Manuel Florescu was up at 3:15 a.m. Thursday with his wife, Leslie, and youngest of six children, 2-year-old Sorin, when he got a call from the Troy Police Department…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1461+ words) BOURBON COUNTY, KY. — By the thousands, the believers came — Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians among them. In covered wagons and carriages, pioneer settlers traveled to the backwoods of Kentucky for a weeklong camp meeting orchestrated by a 28-year-old Presbyterian clergyman named…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (688+ words) ‘Church of Christ. Established A.D. 33.” Most of us have seen such a sign outside a building where the Lord’s church meets. We know what it means: God established the Church of Christ when Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost,…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1699+ words) NAPLES, IDAHO — An eye-catching sign featuring a Christian school’s Rams mascot greets logging trucks along heavily traveled U.S. 95, about 40 miles south of the Canadian border. Just off the highway, tamarack and ponderosa pine trees dot the landscape as K…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1326+ words) NASHVILLE, TENN. — “I’m part of the irrelevance.” Those words, from an older adult at the Harpeth Hills Church of Christ, stopped Robyn Arab in her tracks. As director of the church’s Resource Center on Aging, Arab had spent years promoting…...