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Kelly Edmiston is now the “Lead Pastor” of the Vineyard in Sugar Land, Texas. She has a longstanding background in the churches of Christ and claims to be influenced still by us. In the previous article, we challenged that by calling attention to the differences she herself brought up in
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We all saw it coming. In 2016 medical marijuana was made legal in Florida. Does it help some people? Yes. Your congenial editor had a friend who used it. He did not enjoy it and never had designs of getting high on it, but it did help with his health
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What is “the Vineyard”? According to the Internet, The Vineyard Movement is a charismatic evangelical Christian denomination with over 2,400 affiliated churches worldwide. The movement is rooted in historic evangelicalism and charismatic renewal. The Vineyard seeks to combine the best of Evangelical traditions with the best of Pentecostal and
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Your congenial editor and his wife visited the Bellview congregation in Pensacola on July 10th. It is comforting to know where to find a sound congregation while traveling. Michael Hatcher taught a class on How to Study the Bible. As an illustration of the wrong way to study, he referred
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Recently, your congenial editor came across a 13-year-old article titled, “Church Music Wars: Some Hear Satan’s Beat,” which appeared on page 6A of USA Today (November 17, 2011). A previous controversy along these lines involved organ music versus guitars and drums four decades earlier. This one involved
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In Part 1, we saw how a man reared in the teachings and traditions of the Baptist Church forsook all of that training because he (essentially) grew weary of telling homosexuals that they were wrong. He felt better by telling them their behavior was acceptable to God, which was based
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A woman asked a close friend (in a different religion) if she thought she would go to hell even though she was kind, loving, and unselfish (see part one for additional details). Her friend said that she would "in no uncertain terms." Her response was: "Logically, I
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Recently, two articles were posted concerning Baptists. On May 24 Monica Hesse posted the article, "How a southern Baptist Minister Came to Lead an LGBTQ-Affirming Church." On June 17, Tom Wade posted reasons which explain why he is no longer a member of the Baptist Church—because
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Your congenial editor confesses that he once subscribed to the daily newspaper, which has become passe for most people these days. Recently, in an effort to clean and organize materials, the following article surfaced from the Orlando Sentinel (June 6, 2013). It was one of the letters that appeared in
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Decades ago, members of the church could travel to various locations and find churches of Christ that were very similar, if not identical, to their home congregation. Then came the rise of liberalism; now one finds various shades of difference between sound congregations and those who bear little resemblance to
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As members here know, their congenial editor and his wife were gone recently for eleven days. We visited with three different congregations on the two Wednesday evenings and one Sunday we were away. While this statement is accurate, it is misleading. The first motel where we stayed was less than
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On May 11, 2024, Harrison Butker (field goal kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs who won this year's Superbowl) gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas, and some have been incensed ever since. He spoke boldly and forthrightly to the students, who