Well, it’s the first week of January 2026, it’s that time of year when we fill the pressure to sit down, look forward in anticipation at the remaining 361 days we have left in the year and determine goals we want to reach for the year, tasks we want to accomplish, and bucket list items we want to fulfill. We call it a New Years Resolution, and it is something we are sometimes guilt tripped into doing because all our friends and family do it and commercials on TV make you feel guilty if you don’t. Now don’t get me wrong, making a resolution to do something is a good, positive thing, that is as long as the resolution you are making doesn’t involve doing something questionable, illegal or sinful. But the thing is, resolutions can come with pit falls, especially if the person making the resolution lacks the strength of integrity, the desire or the ability to stick to the plan to fulfill those resolutions. Personally, I don’t make New Year’s...
Based on a sermon attributed to Bobby Stafford at the church of Christ in Granby, MO and adapted for delivery by Charlton Wiggins at the Axton church of Christ in Axton, VA Today we live in an era marked by spiritual diversity and the recognition, acceptance and celebration of many different religious beliefs, all of which coexist in our society today. Our society today view these multitude of paths to salvation as valid and demanding of mutual respect, dialogue and understanding, rather than supporting a single Bible-based faith. This has resulted in hundreds if not thousands of different religions today. Even in the churches of Christ there are erring brethren who hold to beliefs that are not found in the Bible. In those moments when someone asks me about the church of Christ and why it is we do the things we do or don’t do the things they do, my response is “if it ain’t there, then it ain’t here.” Meaning, if it isn’t in God’s word – the Bible – then we don’t do i...