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Churches, Quit Losing the War in Order to Win the Battle
Churches want to grow. It would be difficult to find a congregation that doesn’t at least say they want to grow. Now, some may not actually want more people, but that’s a different article. However, in an effort to add to the numbers, too many churches are forgetting that there is a war to be fought, and not just a battle for increasing numbers in the bulletin. Churches need to stop making their first question, “How can we get more people?” Yes, we need to care if more people attend. Yes, we need to desire for more people to come to a saving knowledge of Christ. Yes, we need to…
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Voices of Dissent
It is said that history has a tendency to repeat itself. If this is truly the case then we should not be surprised when we see ourselves right smack dab in the middle of an age-old problem, facing the same results that the people of the past had to face. Years before there ever was a reformation there were voices. These voices paved the way for what Luther and Calvin and the rest continued to pursue. But the price they paid in failing to conform to the political and religious powers and influences that ruled in their time led in each and every case to their eventual deaths. Peter Waldo…
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Why Did He Use That Word?
It was an important college football game. The winner of this particular game would play for the national championship. One would think that every imaginable detail would have been addressed by coaches and players and that there would be no room for what some call a “bonehead” incident. However, such an incident did, indeed, occur. Somehow there was enough confusion to cause the team with the ball to take too long between plays. The referee threw the flag. He made the appropriate signal. He turned his microphone on and announced what everybody already knew. The penalty was for “delay of game.” The head coach was not happy. That was to be expected. What was not…
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Episode 116: Reading Long-Form Literature as a Family [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_116.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS(Player not displaying or working? Click here.) For a number of years, Adam and Leah have read long-form literature with their kids as a family. On this week’s episode, they talk about why they do this, and give some tips about reading these with your family. Below, you will find a helpful list of books, as well as those they have talked about in the episode. Resources 1000 Good Books List [Classical Christian Education Support Loop] “The Wizard of Oz” Collection [All novels in one set; Amazon] “Black Beauty” [Amazon] “Swallows and Amazons” [Amazon] “Caddy Woodlawn” [Amazon] More from A Legacy of Faith…
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10 Years Later
We have been at it for a little over ten years. Faithfully, every Tuesday afternoon at 1:00, a group of ladies of various ages meet in the large classroom at the Central Church of Christ to study the Bible. I’m sure there are a lot of you reading this who are now thinking – “so what, we do the same thing, just at a different time on a different day.” I’m sure that’s true, and I am certainly not trying to say that our class is more beneficial that yours. I’m writing this post hoping that it will encourage many more to just study the Bible. After taking about…
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JUST Family Time
Last weekend, a Christmas gift finally “paid off,” sort of. On Christmas morning, I had surprised our family with plans for a quick weekend trip to St. Louis to watch a basketball game and to go eagle watching over the Mississippi River. Well, the weather did not cooperate, so we headed south, instead, and just enjoyed visiting some old favorite spots in Nashville. It was still a great trip, even if it did not have any new experiences. It was something that was said on the way there that has had me doing a lot of thinking, though. As we were nearing Nashville and talking about what we were going…
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One Word Makes a Difference
As I was worshiping this last Sunday and listening to B.J. Clarke preach from 2 Corinthians, I thought about how one word in a passage of Scripture sometimes makes all the difference. In Paul’s opening remarks to the Corinthians, in the third verse of chapter one in this second letter the apostle writes, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.” Concentrate on that word “all.” Paul did not say that God was the God of comfort. He said God is the God of all comfort. For me personally, that passage means so much more because of that…
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The Man I Never Knew
He was one of the players on a baseball team posing for a picture. He was kneeling on the front row. He was the one holding the bat. His first name was the same as my middle name. I was told that my mother wanted me to be named after him, but that he didn’t want to saddle his son with the name “Delmar.” When I consider the kind of man he was, I can think of a lot of things that would have been a whole lot worse. [Editor’s note: The picture is the one used above for the header of this article.] I knew Delmar Faughn from the time I became aware of…
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How Long?
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do wicked people seem to thrive? These are just two of the hard questions people ask when they are hurting. It often seems that faithful servants of God are hurting while wicked people of the world are enjoying all the pleasures of sin. This has been a question for hundreds of years. Consider that even the psalmist in Psalm 94:3 asked, “Lord, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?” As I was recently reading 2 Peter it struck me anew that while our human perspective frames these situations this way, nothing that happens surprises God and He is fully aware of who deserves…
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Some Very Early Thoughts on Owning a Disney Circle
I know we are late to the game, but we finally bought a Circle from Disney for our house. As our kids get older and the use of devices just seems to go up, we knew it was time (past time, to be honest) to get something to help protect our family in various ways online. If you aren’t familiar with Circle, there are two different kinds to know about. The type we bought simply pairs with your home’s WiFi router and covers all devices that are connected to that WiFi. The Circle “Go” is a paid system (month-by-month) that covers all devices no matter where they are. Since our…
