I was searching for VBS materials on-line and typed in \u201cfishers of men\u201d on my search.\u00a0 Your web site came up.\u00a0 How refreshing to see a church of Christ web site that is more interested in promoting Bible truths than social activities!\u00a0 I just wanted to say that I appreciate your messages and am so glad to see that there are congregations out there that are sound when there are so many that are not.\u00a0 Keep up the good work!<\/p>\n\t
Thank you for your kind words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I was searching for VBS materials on-line and typed in \u201cfishers of men\u201d on my search.\u00a0 Your web site came up.\u00a0 How refreshing to see a church of Christ web site that is more interested in promoting Bible truths than social activities!\u00a0 I just wanted to say that I appreciate your messages and am…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,152],"class_list":["post-16016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-social-activities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36273,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/it-is-refreshing-to-see-that-someone-thinks-that-the-bible-does-show-that-israel-did-cross-the-red-sea\/","url_meta":{"origin":16016,"position":0},"title":"It is refreshing to see that someone thinks that the Bible does show that Israel did cross the Red Sea","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: It is refreshing to see that someone thinks that the Bible does show that Israel did cross the Red Sea.\u00a0Thanks for posting this on the Internet. 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