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.
“Many things about tomorrow, I don’t seem to understand; but I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand.”
If a man will divest his mind of all thoughts of this church or that church, this creed or that creed, and simply open the Book and do what it teaches him, God will “add” that man to his church.
What they did in repentance and baptism, however, gave them no ground for boasting or claim of credit for their conversion, for without God’s grace they would not have ceased the practice of sin (Titus 2:11-12) and without His love there would have been no forgiveness.
This attitude has somewhat naturally led to a “buy now, pay later” mentality that has landed many Americans in financial peril. In this, Christians must take great caution
They see “a sinner,” someone who doesn’t belong, someone who has interrupted an important dinner for important people, someone who a prophet of God could never care about, someone who should not be making a scene. But they don’t see her.
The Apostle Paul certainly believed this and encouraged the Christians at Colossae to have a life permeated with thanks. Throughout this short and powerful epistle, the apostle admonished these first-century Christians to live a life that overflows with thanksgiving.
Christians are in a position to understand and apply the “Golden Rule”, as are none others.
Psalms is far more than a book from which to pull pithy statements for greeting cards; it is a divinely inspired model of approaching God and dealing with life’s problems.
