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Thoughts To Ponder

When one door closes, another one opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

 


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A Study of the Local Church
Wed. Night Adult Bible Class by Larry Rouse
Download the outlines:
Lesson1 - Attitudes Towards Open Study and Resolving Differences
Lesson 2 - The Need to Find Bible Authority
Lesson 3 - The Local Church and the Individual Christian
Lesson 4 - The Work of a Local Church
Lesson 5 - The Organization of a Local Church
Lesson 6 - The Fellowship of a Christian

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A Friendly Discussion on Mormonism

Held at the University church of Christ -
February 17, 2011

 


Following the Footsteps of Jesus
Bible Class by Larry Rouse

Download the current outlines:
Lesson1 - Follow the Footsteps of Jesus in Baptism
Lesson 2 - Follow the Footsteps of Jesus in Praying
Lesson 3 - Follow the Footsteps of Jesus in Teaching
Lesson4 - Follow the Footsteps of Jesus to the Cross

Lesson 5 - Follow the Footsteps of Jesus to Heaven

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Building a Biblical  Faith

College Class

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A Study of Evangelism
(Studies in the Cross of Christ)
College Bible Class by Larry Rouse

 

A Study of the Life of Joseph



Adult Bible Class by Larry Rouse

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Building a Biblical Home Bible Class Series

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"Who Have No Hope"

by F. Yater Tant

Many primitive people have a custom of making a great show of grief over the death of their loved ones. In ancient times they even hired mourners to lament and bewail the loss of a relation. The idea here was that the grief of the family was so overwhelming it simply could not be expressed by any normal or ordinary outpouring of mournful cries, and must needs have the help of "professionals" to make lamentation.

This was the kind of "sorrow" Paul admonished against when he wrote the Thessalonians, "that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope." (I Thess. 4:13). The Christian does not need hired mourners; in fact, he really does not mourn at all in the sense in which the heathen mourns. For he recognizes that his separation from a loved one is only temporary, and will be followed by an eternity of complete happiness in company with the one who has now gone.

This will be the case if (and what 'a terrific "IF" it is!) both the deceased and the bereaved die as faithful children of God.

Motives For Obedience

Nobody ever acts from a single motive. All the factors lying behind any decision or action have their influence on an individual. His action (or lack of it) is a TOTAL situation. Some of the strongest motivations, of course, can become so dominant in a given situation as to make it seem that a single motive controls the action, but this is not so. Fear of punishment and hope of reward are two of the strongest motives activating the Christian in his service of God. (Psychologists have long since determined that the former is much stronger than the latter — hence, the folly of those teachers who would eliminate all references to hell and eternal punishment from their speech.) But along with these two basic motivating factors, surely the deep feeling of gratitude to God for the gift of his Son is of no small importance. And the blessed relief from the galling burden of guilt and self-reproach for wrongs done all of these are potent factors in a man's obedience.

But a very valid motivation is often overlooked the love a man has for his family. It is perfectly right and proper to appeal to this as ONE influence that should lead a man to obey the gospel. If he does not, and goes into eternity without any promise of salvation at all, think what a crushing weight of grief this brings to the family he leaves behind! It is bad enough for them to be deprived of his person and association through the lonely years ahead. But to know that the separation is FOREVER, and that there can be no hope at all of any kind of reunion — surely, no man who loves his family would want to lay that heavy load upon them!! He will compel his family to "sorrow as those who have no hope."

The much controverted expression "baptized for the dead" in I Corinthians 15:29 may well be another reference to this very motivation. Many scholars (probably most) believe that this means "baptized in the hope of reunion with the dead." If there is no resurrection, obviously such a reason for baptism is meaningless. And any Corinthian who was "baptized in the hope of reunion" with some dead loved one, and then denied the resurrection of the dead, was obviously not thinking very straight!

Those "who have no hope" are the forlorn and broken people whose loved ones have died out of Christ. Theirs is a bitter sorrow, indeed. How brutal and callous the man who would run the risk of subjecting his family to such torture. The faithful Christian who dies leaves his sorrowing family a comfort, a consolation, a "blessed hope" more precious to them than anything on this earth. Their sorrow, truly is not the hopeless despair of the heathen.

This, of course, is not the only motive that should lead a man to Christ. But it is one; and a very powerful one at that. Powerful, that is, for the man who loves his family. - Gospel Guardian – August 5, 1971 

 

Other Articles by F. Yater Tant
Authorized by a Well-Defined and a Clear Majority of Churches of Christ in Texas
Mental Incinerators
Going Home

 

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Student Sunday Night Home Study and Singing

 

 

Our God He Is Alive! (Evidences From DNA by Buddy Payne)
PowerPoint
Audio of Lesson

 

Making God Real to Us by Joshua Carter - Nov. 27, 2011
Outline
Audio of Lesson
Audio of Singing

The College Christian by Harold Carswell - Nov. 6, 2011
Outline
Audio of Lesson (Part 1)
Audio of Lesson (Part 2)
Audio of Singing

My Struggle as a College Student by Kyle Gibson- Oct. 23, 2011
Audio of Lesson
Audio of Singing

"I Press" by Dee Bowman
Aug. 21, 2011
Audio of Lesson
Audio of Singing

When Evolutionist Tell the Truth by David Tant
Outline
PowerPoint
Audio of Lesson
Audio of Singing

Situation Ethics by Caleb George - March 30, 2011
Audio of Lesson
Audio of Singing

 

 


Studies by David Tant at the University church of Christ

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How to Study the Bible
College Class

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Monthly Bible Study in Lagrange
at the Eastside church of Christ in LaGrange, Georgia

Overcoming the Present Apostasy by Larry Rouse

 

Saturday October 9, 2010


9:30 AM
- How do We View the Bible?

Outline
PowerPoint
Audio

 

Saturday December 11, 2010

9:30 AM - How Do We View the World?

Outline
PowerPoint
 

Saturday May 14, 2011

9:30 AM - How Do We View God's Order for Leadership?

Outline
PowerPoint
 

Saturday June 11, 2011

9:30 AM - How Do We View the Local Church?

Outline
PowerPoint
Audio

 

Saturday July 9, 2011

9:30 AM - How Do We View God's instruction on Fellowship?

Outline
PowerPoint
 

 


Messianic Prophecies in the Book of Isaiah
Adult Bible Class by Larry Rouse
Sunday Mornings at 9:30
Download the current outlines:
Lesson 1 - The Time and Reign of the Messiah
Lesson 2 - The Servant Songs (Isaiah 42)
Lesson 3 - The Servant Songs (Isaiah 49)
Lesson 4 - The Servant Songs (Isaiah 50)
Lesson 5 - The Servant Songs (Isaiah 52-53)
Lesson 6 - The Virgin Birth (Isa. 7)

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Sermon Series on the Book of 1 John
by Robert Harkrider

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Themes From the Life of David
Sunday Adult Bible Class by Larry Rouse

 

A Study of Religious Beliefs

Wednesday Night College Bible Class

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Lesson 1 - Introduction and Approach
Lesson 2 - The Roman Catholic Church
Lesson 3 - An Overview of Islam
Lesson 4 - An Overview of Mormonism
Lesson 5 - An Overview of Pentecostalism
Lesson 6 - An Overview of Calvinism

 


Student Sunday Night Home Study and Singing

 

 

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