Southside church of Christ in Mt. Pleasant Texas

Preaching has fallen into disrepute in our age. Portrayals of preachers range from the charlatan to the bore. But God will have none of it. Preaching is something he has used for centuries to get his word into the hearts…

Genesis 15:7-21 contains one of the strangest scenes in scripture. Abram cuts animals in half, falls into a trance, and then a smoking fire pot passes between the halved animals. But the true strangeness of story is in the lengths…

The road from promise to fulfillment is not always an easy one. Abram had received great multi-generational promises, but had no prospects of even being able to pass them on to one generation. But when he expresses this uncertainty in…

What are we meant to take from a Genesis 14 account of competing Middle Eastern kings, guerrilla military operations, and meetings with people with strange names like Melchizedek? At least 2 things: 1) an encouraging assurance that we’re at the…

Covenant people must be careful to remain pilgrims. This is the task before Abram & Lot in Genesis 13: to live in Canaan without becoming Canaanites. And this pilgrim task remains the same for covenant people to today: to live…

Abram’s story captures the complexity of human life. The faith he’s commended for in Hebrews 11 is not an unbroken line in an upward direction. There are starts & stops, ups & downs. Within the first chapter of his story…

God’s big plans always start with someone small. His plan to bless every family on his earth begins with a call to a polytheist from Babylon.

Are the Linus of 2 Timothy 4:21 and the Clement of Philippians 4:3 the men from history known as popes?