Lipscomb on Congregational Worship, or a critique of seeker-sensitive services from early summer 1866

This appears in the 5 June 1866 issue of Gospel Advocate,  Vol. 8 no. 23, pages 360-361: CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP There seems to be, with our brethren, a most fatal mistake with reference to the object of congregational worship on the Lord’s day.  There is an idea that seems almost ineradicable, that meetings of the congregation on Lord’s [...]

Read Full Post »

Book review forthcoming, and a little catch-up

I have at hand Eric Dishongh, From Campbell to Katrina: A History of the Churches of Christ in New Orleans. Heritage Press: Florence, Ala. 2011.  I intend to post a review soon. Some months have passed since I last posted to this blog.  Truth be told, I haven’t even looked at this blog more than six times in [...]

Read Full Post »

Merry Christmas from the Ice’s

Read Full Post »

M. D. Clubb remembers J. W. McGarvey, part 1

First Affirmative At the beginning of this discussion, which is to appear simultaneously in the gospel Advocate and the Christian-Evangelist, I suppose a word of explanation would be in order. The discussion grows out of conditions which are peculiar almost entirely to the South. The music question is of no concern whatever in any other [...]

Read Full Post »

eScriptorium 2009 in review

The stats for 2009 are as follows: Total views: 8030 Top three referrers: Referrer Views ccotten.wordpress.com 314 mcgarveyice.blogspot.com 163 johnmarkhicks.wordpress.com 92 Top 3 posts: Title Views   Understanding Non-Institutional Churches of Christ: Some Suggestions for First Reads 380 Helpful Lectio Divina quotes 230 About 168 Top 3 search terms: Search Views lectio divina 101 mcgarvey [...]

Read Full Post »

Safe travels, Holloway family

Today as you go about your tasks I ask that you remember in prayer my friends Clint and Adele Holloway.  They are en route, as I type, to China to finalize the adoption of their son, Jin. I’ve known Clint for about ten years.  Clint is Associate Director of World Convention and Adele is an [...]

Read Full Post »

A quiet life, good deeds, gentle humility

Thanks, John Mark. Read the full post here.

Read Full Post »

That Which Is Perfect

Christian Leader columnist George A. Klingman has this to say in reply to query number 20,005: “What is that which is perfect and when is it to come?” That which is “perfect” is the eternal, the infinite, the absolute; the state in which we shall see “face to face” and no longer through a glass [...]

Read Full Post »

Kromer Columbus Ice

Kromer Columbus Ice was born June 27, 1876 in Center Point, Doddridge County, West Virginia, the fourth of Andrew Jackson and Mary Ann Roberts’ Ice’s six sons.  Born in a log cabin, he lived with his brothers in the home of his grandparents, Isaac and Elizabeth Ice after his father died.  He also lived for a time with [...]

Read Full Post »

View from CCU

Here’s the view of downtown Cincy from Cincinnati Christian University. The building in the foreground is Restoration Hall.    With Jim Fields of Standard Publishing.  In the eschaton, when all is made right with the cosmos, we will wear bow-ties…will you be left behind?

Read Full Post »