The Faughn Family of Four

Tuesday, David Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted a conference dedicated to the breaking down of religious barriers among world religions. There was a Muslim leader and a Jewish leader, along with Lipscomb professor Lee Camp. Sadly, when reading the report from the Tennessean (Nashville’s newspaper), it becomes clear that the “Christian” is trying to downplay the fact that Jesus is THE way (John 14:6). The article, written by Anita Wadhwati, follows: To live peacefully with Muslims and Jews, Christians[...]

[NOTE: The following article was originally published in the Messenger from the Memorial Parkway church of Christ in Huntsville, Alabama. I thought it lent an interesting perspective between Barabbas and us. I hope you enjoy it and learn from it. I know I did.]As we read Luke 23:19, the Bible doesn’t give us any room for debate on the type of person Barabbas was. He was a bad man, put in prison as an insurrectionist (one who disturbed the peace).[...]

For generations, children have wanted parents to be more “hip,” and not hang on to the “same old” rules and regulations. Sadly, many parents have changed and tried to be a “friend” to their children instead of being a parent. We who are parents need to realize that our children will come to respect us more when we draw lines and hold to them. With that in mind, allow me to share two items that will make me seem very[...]

We’ll be away for a couple of days for Thanksgiving, so I thought I’d just share some short items that have been building over the past few days that might be of some interest to you. First, the United Nations recently announced that AIDS is spreading again. In fact, some 39.5million people have the dreaded disease. The numbers are increasing in some countries which had seen some major improvement, including the United States. They estimate that someone in the world[...]

Maintaining this blog requires quite a bit of work, but it is also fun. We hope you continue to find it helpful and interesting. Every once in a while, though, we try to do something just for fun. We’ve added another feature that will be some fun to monitor in the coming days and weeks. On the right-hand side of the screen (about half-way down), you will find these words: “I’m a __ in the TTLB ecosystem.” “TTLB” stands for[...]