Posts from February 2018

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Rented Wedding Rings

by Don Wright

The divorce rate has gotten so out of hand in this country that there is a jewelry store in L.A. where you can actually rent wedding rings. The message is that your marriage is probably only temporary anyway, so why invest in a ring that you call your own. Just rent a ring and when […]

Individual or Organization

by Don Wright

The Brown Street church of Christ is what brethren refer to as a non-institutional church. What that means is that we oppose human organizations doing the work that God gave to the church specifically, that is, to individuals who make up the universal church and to local churches made up of individual Christians. There has […]

The church of Christ before the Restoration

by Don Wright

The Restoration Movement began in the early 1800s but that was not the beginning of the Lord’s church. The Lord’s church started in the first century when Peter preached the first gospel sermon on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:14-47). To claim that the Lord’s church started with, or emerged out of, the Restoration Movement, […]

Shirt Wearers

by Don Wright

Fraternities and Sororities have been around for a long time. Phi Beta Kappa Society, was founded on December 5, 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was the first fraternal organization in the United States of America. There were many more such societies to follow. On December 4, 1906, Alpha […]