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JWJeffery.com http://www.jwjeffery.com The Blog of Joshua Jeffery Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:44:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Diagram of the Stone-Campbell Movement: A Diagram of Churches Hello all: The other day, I was trying to explain to a friend the history, differences, and relation of the Churches of Christ to the United Church of Christ. After I was done with my admittedly confusing lecture, my buddy remarked that a diagram would be more helpful. I ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=109 A Change of Plans, and a new direction. Hello Everyone: I've been planning for quite a while now to finish my bachelors degree at Lipscomb. However, my wife is in the middle of getting accepted into nursing school here in Portland, which means that we will be here for another 2 - 3 years. I am graduating ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=107 My Family History Hello all: I recently bugged my mother into finally finding our family genealogy book. After much prodding, she finally found it. My original intent was to try and update it... in our branch of the family tree, it stops at my Grandfather. The book was compiled in the ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=105 Cypress Chapel Christian Church I've been doing quite a bit of reading about the Christian Connexion. As mentioned previously, I read Barton Stone's memoirs, then moved on to Abner Jones, and then Elias Smith. I am currently reading Milo T. Morrill's History of the Christian Denomination. The Christian Connexion united themselves ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=101 The thoughts of Elder Abner Jones on disorder in the church. Hello all: While reading the memoirs of Abner Jones, I came across this nice little tidbit, which reminded me of various incidents (sometimes ongoing) in different congregations I've been a member of over the years. I couldn't help but laugh at the thought of how many things stay the same, ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=86 Searching for Stone Hello Everyone: In the past two months or so, I've read a decent amount of pages regarding Barton W. Stone. I started with his latest biography, Barton Stone: A Spiritual Biography, by D. Newell Williams. Williams answered small, nagging questions I've had since reading many of the general histories ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=83 Histories and ramblings… Hello all: I have been very sick for the last several days, which has kept me home from work, and allowed me catch up on reading...and in fact, has enabled one of my bad habits, that of reading more than one book at a time. Right now, I am actually ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=76 Some thoughts about the nature of scripture. A friend of mine yesterday told me about a book that several of his friends are reading that questions the validity of the historicity of the Old Testament, and that basically makes the claim that we shouldn’t attempt to make claims about history, science, etc. based on scripture, but that ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=73 Cigarettes and Temptations. This afternoon, after going to church and having lunch, we stopped at the 76 station in town to get some gas. The gas attendant (we can't pump our own gas in Oregon, its illegal) was feeling especially lazy and made me go inside with my 76 card... As I ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=70 Venus of Urbino: Inspiration and Influence. One of Tiziano Vecellio’s–or Titian, as he is well known–most celebrated works is his Venus of Urbino. Titian, a master of the high renaissance, created a masterpiece that echoes that of his mentor’s, Giorgione, but surpasses it in both beauty and eroticism. While Titian’s work was inspired by that of ... http://www.jwjeffery.com/?p=64