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Keith D. Stanglin Dr. Jim Martin presenting at Walnut Hill Church of Christ There is no success without successors .  Well, that may not be strictly true, at least not in every case.  And it depends on the measure of success.  There can be successes here and now, regardless of what tomorrow holds.  However, to the degree that success is measured by the continuance  of a good thing, then, indeed, there are no guarantees, and there is no substitute: There is no success without

In the introduction to his treatise on the Sermon on the Mount, Augustine wrote: “If anyone will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life: and this we do not rashly venture to promise, but gather it from the very words of the Lord himself. For the sermon itself is brough

by Todd Hall What’s in a name? Well, it turns out that the answer to that question is “a whole lot.” Names can be venerated and names can be tarnished. They can follow someone around, and they can come to symbolize character and personality. Names matter.   I came across an interesting fact several years ago when thinking about this commandment: Adolf was a popular name in Germany prior to World War 2, with several notable rulers of Germany as well as Saints and others appear