The Statistical Craze
Almost every time I feel a strong urge to write on an issue that really needs to be talked about,I later find that someone else said it before any of us were born. Recently I had been thinking about our obsession with statistics when I found this article. This is a...
Will They Come Back?
An article entitled “Where did the people go?” appeared in the Christian Chronicle of May 2022. It sounded a familiar alarm: declines in church attendance. The article gave this observation: “When it comes to closed churches of Christ, that may be the hardest question...
Exhortation Needed
All Christians need encouragement (Heb. 3:13). Christians should be known for their love and good works, but from time to time exhortation is needed. Exhortation to attend is needed (Heb. 10:25). Why? Because showing up matters! It’s important to be present every...
New TBC Press Book on Disease and Church Assembly
Since early 2020, Kerry Duke has had a lot of conversations – conversations with Christians reaching out in fear, frustration and discouragement regarding COVID-19 and church assembly. Those concerns motivated him to write a book, “Church, State and Disease ‒...