Posted in adversity, apostacy, church, Emergent, encouragement, faith, Gospel, holiness, Organized church, troubles, Uncategorized, understanding on Jan 29th, 2012
Why does it always sound so hypocritical when Evangelicals bash Gays and so worldly when the other side embraces them? Could it be that they are both wrong! In LGBT congregations the wrongness of the position is so apparent; they openly allow and advertise their sin. On the other hand, in the “Gay bashing” congregations, [...]
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Posted in Church Life, conscience, discernment, encouragement, faith, Organized church, seeing, trials, troubles, Truth on May 29th, 2011
The thoughts within our heads move in certain trained ways which make it easy for us to jump to conclusions or make assumptions. For instance I assume that when I use the word “God” that everyone understands that I mean the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, [...]
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Posted in church, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, encouragement, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, hearing, Hell, heresy, hypocrisy, new age, Nicolaitan, offense, Organized church, peace, Preachers, prophecy, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on May 7th, 2011
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Where do we start an examination of “truth,” well, at the beginning would be a good place, so let’s go back to Genesis and the Garden of Eden. The common story of the “beginning” seems to always start and finish with the disobedience of eating the forbidden fruit. That is all well and good, but [...]
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Posted in church, deception, discernment, faith, false teachers, hearing, heresy, holiness, hypocrisy, offense, Preachers, prophecy, seeing, Truth, understanding on Apr 5th, 2011
In a time, not so long ago, a man of character would be referred to as a man of his word. It might be said of him, “His word is his bond”. This was the era, now gone, when it was a compliment to call some one God-fearing. Now is the era of the likeable [...]
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What Color is Your Truth? Part 2 Buy truth, and do not sell it; and as a bonus get wisdom, instruction, and understanding. Proverbs 23:23 Why does truth even matter? We throw the word around as if it is important, but rarely even consider the futility of the search. Yet, [...]
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This is a very good question since we all want to be strong, healthy, and enjoy many good days of peace and comfort. Many a man has spent his whole life in the fight against indwelling sin, in a constant battle, and has never seen a day of comfort, and feel all the time [...]
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Posted in books, Church Life, Communion, encouragement, faith, holiness, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, understanding on Feb 6th, 2011
THE HARNESS OF THE LORD by Bill Britton I SAW THE KING'S CARRIAGE On a dirt road in the middle of a wide field stood a beautiful carriage, something on the order of a stagecoach but all edged in gold and with beautiful carvings. It was pulled by six large chestnut horses: [...]
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Posted in adversity, books, Church Life, cross, encouragement, faith, holiness, Organized church, Preachers, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, sin, suffering, trials, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Jan 16th, 2011
George Warnock say so gracefully and plainly what I have been trying to say, in my stumbling way, that we need an awakening to the deep things of God. What we have learned to be content with, in our forms and programs, George brings to the forefront and shines the bright light of truth [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, cross, deception, discernment, Emergent, faith, false teachers, following christ, Government, hearing, humanism, Judgment, peace, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, suffering, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Jan 14th, 2011
Definition of PACIFIST 2: strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war Does that definition describe Jesus? No! Although He never engaged in or even defended Himself against violence, and charged His followers to do the same, He did not strongly and actively oppose conflict or war by unbelieving nations or people. On the contrary the Bible [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, deception, discernment, Emergent, entertainment, faith, false prophets, false teachers, following christ, hearing, humanism, hypocrisy, Judgment, Organized church, Preachers, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Dec 17th, 2010
I belong to a club of bass fishermen. In that club, there are some good and talented anglers. We all make a display of talent, even if we have only modest ability, and boast among ourselves about trophy catches, but at the end of the day it is the Kevin Van Dam=s and the [...]
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