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April 13, 2023

 

 

Podcast: Celebrate the resurrected Savior

Be inspired by congregational singing from the Highland Church of Christ in Memphis, Tenn., the poetry of Sara Barton of Pepperdine University and the preaching of Chris McCurley of the Walnut Street Church of Christ in Dickson, Tenn.

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Taking tests, transforming lives
 

Taking tests, transforming lives

 

Children, teenagers and adults packed into the Onstead Center at Bandina Christian Youth Camp on a recent Saturday morning with an unusual goal: To take a six-part, 250-question exam testing their knowledge on the New Testament book of Matthew.

Audrey Jackson reports from the Texas Bible Bowl in Bandera, Texas.

 
 

 
Looking for helpers, catalyzing hope
 

Looking for helpers, catalyzing hope

 

As parents and grandparents, we will continue to tell our little ones to look for the helpers. But as the adults who must figure out how to stop Evil with an AR-style firearm from ripping through the body of another child, we must mobilize our hope.

Cheryl Mann Bacon offers her perspective on the Nashville school shootings.

 
Around the World: Remote Bible studies in Somalia, a couples seminar in Guatemala and more quick takes
 

Around the World: Remote Bible studies in Somalia, a couples seminar in Guatemala and more quick takes

 

Baptizing John Bosco was no easy task.

He had studied the Bible remotely through World English Institute, a correspondence ministry associated with Churches of Christ. When he told his teacher, Suzie Winham of Las Cruces, N.M., that he was ready to be baptized, she spent months trying to find someone to immerse him in the majority Muslim country of Somalia.

See our roundup of international news.

 
Nearly 12,000 ‘awesome’ people gather for CYC in Tennessee
 

Nearly 12,000 ‘awesome’ people gather for CYC in Tennessee

 

“This year’s massive crowd was the second-largest in our history — and probably the largest gathering of members of the Churches of Christ under one roof anywhere,” one speaker said.

“The thing that I take away every year is how good our young people are in the church,” another speaker said. “You truly see how invested the young people of the church are in the church. I just think that’s incredibly encouraging.”

Read Erik Tryggestad’s report. 

 
 

 
Voices only: ‘To God be the Glory’
 

Voices only: ‘To God be the Glory’

 

God’s love restores us, atones for us, redeems us and “opens the life gate that all may go in.”

See the video and learn why it inspires the Chronicle’s Daniela Neves.

 
 
 

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