The Gooch Lane church of Christ is a group of people in Madison, Alabama seeking to study the Bible and put God’s teachings into practice. We’d love to have you join us for Bible study and worship.
God’s great mercy is bestowed on the undeserving, powerless, helpless sinner who is willing to accept that mercy on the simple terms of the gospel. Jesus died and paid the price for us. We must accept His free gift to us through faith and obedience to the gospel.
Psalm 37 is a beautiful poem of encouragement for God’s faithful. Throughout the poem, David provides gems of wisdom to keep one’s life fine-tuned to godliness. However, the psalm’s main theme exhorts the faithful never to fall prey to envying the wicked.
COVID-19, quarantine, and civil unrest have tested Christians in ways unimagined. Though these things seemed unfathomable in the beginning days of the year, they have provided real-time tests to evaluate personal resiliency.
The foundation for the life of the Christian is Jesus Christ. We must indeed believe He is the Christ the Son of God, and that faith must lead us to obey Him and to pattern our lives after Him.
And what kind of example did He leave for us to follow?
There are many good people in the world who are honestly mistaken, but when a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, one of two things must happen…
The Bible is full of patterns that repeat themselves throughout the course of history. This idea of patterns can be extended to many other things we see in the Bible, most prominently Jesus. Jesus fulfills (in this sense, makes full or complete) the patterns of many people and stories in the Bible.
Christians have a responsibility that never needs to be put on hiatus: Praying for those in government to make godly decisions.
Even Christians are sometimes anxious about death as the unknown can cause apprehension. However, we can be reassured when we realize that the angels of God will be present when we die to carry us to Abraham’s bosom.
