Christmas and Obedience

You better watch out / You better not cry / Better not pout / I’m telling you why / Santa Claus is coming to town He’s making a list / And checking it twice / Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice / Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when you’re sleeping [...]

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Is your profession of Christ genuine?

Often persons think that being a member of a local assembly of Christians makes them right with God individually. If that were true, the apostle Paul would not have admonished: “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in [...]

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Disciples and Self-Discipline

The word “discipline” doesn’t create a great deal of joy when it is offered. Kynette and I have close friends in Kentucky who have a son named Jacob. A couple of years ago, Jacob was on a “I hate discipline” kick. “‘Discipline’ is a dirty word,” he would moan. His moaning would evoke my truthful [...]

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Religion: an emotional crutch?

With his sights focused upon Christianity, noted 19th-century revolutionary Karl Marx famously railed that “religion is the opiate for the masses.” Psychologist Sigmund Freud contemptuously opined, “Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a [...]

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