Walnut Street Church of Christ Dickson, TN

We were made for God, and until He is our greatest pleasure, all other pleasures in life will be empty. It’s not that recreation, play, or leisure time is wrong. We make it wrong when pleasure, amusement, and entertainment become our greatest pursuit. Play is important. It just can’t be most important.

Being busy doesn’t necessarily mean progress. You can be busy every waking minute of your life and still not accomplish anything worthwhile. In this sermon, Chris reminds us that you will never accomplish more than when you stop and spend time with God.

Chris McCurley continues his Sunday evening sermon series examining some of the more misused and abused passages of scripture. In this installment, he takes on Romans 8:28 and the erroneous conclusion that every tragedy is really good if you wait long enough.

Who we are is because of who God is, and the work we do, no matter how difficult, mundane, important, or insignificant it may seem, should be about making God proud. Imagine the difference we could make if all Christians allowed their work to be shaped by the Gospel. What if we looked at everything in life, including our work, as a ministry? What could we accomplish for the kingdom if we made our...

Walnut Street's Connections Minister, Chad Garrett, shares a message from Isaiah Chapter 6, encouraging us to have the attitude of the Messianic prophet.

In this final installment in the Body Language series, Chris McCurley touches on the the WHY behind the WHAT. Rather than focusing on singing a cappella vs. with instruments, we should be clear on why we sing in the first place.

One of our shepherds at the Walnut Street Church of Christ shares a meesage focused on the Apostle Paul's encouragement to the Christians in Philippi.

In this lesson, Charles DeBerry walks us through Proverbs Chapter 30.

Who, in your life, do you need to be more patient toward? When they test your patience, think about God then think about your life. Are you as patient with others as God is toward you? You may be thinking, "That’s not even possible. I’m not divine. I’m not God.” True. But, to know God is to be more like Him. It is to exercise those attributes that are so clearly seen in His character and the chara...

Chris continues his series examining some of the more misused, misinterpreted, and misapplied passages of scripture with a look at James 1:19. Plenty of people hear the word of God. They read it. They study it. They memorize it. They can recite it upon command, but do they live it? At some point, hearing must turn into doing. Head knowledge doesn’t mean a thing without heart doing.

Our unity is a valuable testimony. Who else could make us one? But if our unity is a testimony, that would mean that the opposite is true as well. Our disunity can be a repellent.

One of our shepherds at Walnut Street shares a lesson on evangelism and how we, as children of God, have been saved to save.

Not only do we grieve with hope, but we also grieve with family. Grieving can be made so much easier when we know that we have the Lord on our side. And the pain we feel can be lessened by knowing that we have a church family that weeps with us. Comforting those who are hurting is a work of the church that all Christians should buy into.

In this message, one of our shepherds, Troy Williams, shares the meaning of being in Christ and the affect of such on our lives as well as the lives of others.

The word “serve” or “to serve” comes from the Greek word doulos , which means “slave” or “to be a slave.” Think about that for a moment. Christ set us free from the slavery of sin only to make us slaves to one another through the love of Christ. Instead of being masters with many servants, we are called to be servants with many masters. Christ didn’t just remove the chains of sin and condemnation....

The Lord’s church is a body—something Paul makes clear in 1 Corinthians Chapter 12. We are all a functioning part of this body, and our functionality gives the body life and power. And the connective tissue prayer. So, if we want to be a strong body for the Lord, then we must be a praying people. And if you want to pray with more power, then pray with more people.

Why should we love one another? Other than we’re told to. We do it because we can’t help it. It’s who we are. It’s in our DNA. It all comes down to identity. The Apostle John stresses this over and over again. If this is not who you are, then how can the love of God be in you? If love doesn’t define you, then are you really following Jesus? Do you love God? If so, that inherently means that you lo...

There was a little girl who was late getting home from school. Her mom was starting to worry and had started out the door to go look for her when she noticed her coming up the sidewalk. The mom asked her daughter, “Where have you been?” The little girl replied, “Janie dropped her art project, and it shattered into a thousand pieces.” The mom said, “Oh, well, that makes sense. You stopped to help h...

You are defined by your relationship with God, and that relationship defines all other relationships in your life. Every damaged relationship in your life points back to your closeness with God. Every barrier to love in our horizontal relationships is a reflection of a problem with love in our vertical relationship. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that the vertical is straight if the horizontal...

The language of Hebrews 10:24 seems rather negative on the surface. It’s paroxysmos and it means “to incite” or “provoke.” It’s derived from the Greek word for rebellion. This is the language of rebels and revolution. It’s the language of insurrection and uprising. We are instructed to consider how to start a riot! Not a riot that produces violence and hatred and oppression and destruction. The He...