We were glad to have Josh King as a guest speaker.  He spoke on Ecclesiastes 7 in a sermon called "Wisdom and Folly".

Ardmore Church of Christ - 6/21/20 (PM)

Wisdom and Folly (Ecclesiastes 7)

Father’s Day is a special day in our country that we dedicate to fathers. While Father’s Day does not get the attention of Mother’s Day, it is good to honor fathers.

When we studied the role of mothers, we clearly emphasized how special and how valuable mothers are. Fathers are equally as important but perhaps in different ways.

In this lesson we will share some thoughts about the role of a father.

Ardmore Church of Christ - 6/21/20

A Lesson About Fathers

The institution of marriage is perhaps one of the most beautiful parts of God’s creation. Hebrews 13:4a says, “Let marriage be held in honor among all…” As we’ll see, marriage is one of the first things mentioned in the Bible. It’s foundational. Christians need to be concerned with honoring God’s design for marriage; when we don’t, we’re dishonoring something God created.

Aside from what we as Christians stand for in regards to marriage, people of the world are also trying to change God's design of marriage. The fact is, man and ultimately Satan is attacking God’s design. It could certainly be said about our culture that as was the case for the Israelites in the book of Judges, “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:25)

In our society, there is certainly a lack of concern for God and His will. Over the past few years, an issue that has really hit this subject hard is gay marriage. I’d also like to impress on you that this isn't the only area many are challenging. Man has been attacking God’s design in many other areas as well.

Essentially there are two main goals of this lesson. First, this lesson will seek to point out God’s design for marriage. Secondly, I also want to discuss how man is trying to pervert God’s design.

Ardmore Church of Christ - 6/17/20

Man’s Attack on God’s Design for Marriage

With all that’s going on in the world, I’ve found that news channels can provide a wide variety of information. In many cases I’ll turn on the news and it’s nothing but bad news. In addition to bad news, there’s also the reality that there is sometimes "fake news".

One thing that I’ve appreciated from this pandemic is that people’s creativity in quarantine seems to have really come out. We’ve seen a lot of churches find creative ways of sharing the Gospel online for example.

However, one thing that I’ve enjoyed was the creation of a famous celebrity named John Krasinski.  He created an online short news show called “Some Good News”. His intent is to draw more attention to the good news happening in the world. He’ll do news stories about people that do kind acts. He talks about those that are finding ways to be helpful during this crisis. He’s also found ways of cheering people up who have had bad times. It’s a refreshing concept because as I said, a lot of our news is unfortunately either overly negative or a good bit of fake news mixed with the truth. It’s news like this that gave people hope during times of concern.

In the religious world we have a mixture of all the types of news that I mentioned. There’s some bad news that we ought to be made aware of. Unfortunately though, sometimes there’s a lot of fake news that’s said in regards to spiritual things. Ultimately, we need to realize that there’s also some good news that needs to be shared.

Ardmore Church of Christ - 5/24/20

Some Good News

This lesson is called "What I Missed About the Assembly".

You know the old saying, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.” In some ways this applies to our assemblies and what we’ve been through recently. As we lost our normal assemblies for a while, I think we’ve probably realized some things that we miss about being away from our brethren.

I want to spend a little time telling you the ways I missed our assemblies…

After two months of quarantine and holding our services in the parking lot, today the brethren at the Ardmore Church of Christ met in their building for the first time.

Ardmore Church of Christ - 5/17/20

What I Missed About the Assembly

In Rom. 1, Paul is discussing how mankind for the most part has rejected the truth about God. They don’t recognize the need to honor God and have given into their own desires. Paul says that they are without excuse!

Paul tells us that creation reveals a lot about God. Paul says his eternal power and his divine nature can be seen in it. Therefore, there’s a lot we can learn about God from Creation.

Let's consider some things that we learn about the nature of God from Creation.

Ardmore Church of Christ (6/28/20 - AM)

The Nature of God in Creation (Genesis 1)

One theme that we see clearly in the book of Ephesians is that God’s people are to be different from the rest of the world. They’re called to be imitators of God. Christians are taught in the Bible to walk in wisdom.

Here at the end of James 3, James discusses a lot concerning wisdom.

The reader has just been warned against the sinful use of the tongue.
However, in this section of the text the reader is instructed in the way that we ought to be in a positive sense.  This is an action or behavior that we’re to emulate in other words.