The Bible contains “all things that pertain to life and godliness” (2 Pet. 1:3), but God certainly hasn’t told us everything we might like to know. Deuteronomy 29:29 says, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children…
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Keys to Perseverance
Perseverance is the ability to maintain a steady course of action in spite of obstacles, pains or discouragements. Perseverance is the farmer who tills his field, plants his seed, cares for the tender sprouts, and fights the daily battle with insects and weeds that threaten to destroy his fruit until…
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Invite God to the Funeral
Funeral traditions are as diverse as the cultures of the world. For example, Tibetan Buddhists believe that when a body dies the personality goes into a trance for four days. The person does not know they are dead, but they remain fully conscious. Buddhist monks believe they can communicate with…
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Why I Left the Baptist Church
In the fall of 1973 I had no intention of leaving the church in which I was raised. On the contrary, I had recently publicly professed my faith in Jesus Christ and was baptized on the same day. I could well be described as “on fire” for the Lord. I…
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Angels
Angels are spiritual beings created by God (Psalms 148:1,5), who are on a higher order than man (Hebrews 2:7), and neither reproduce nor die (Luke 20:35,36). They are mentioned some 273 times in the Scriptures and often functioned as agents of destruction or blessing (Genesis 19:13,16). As such, they were…
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All Or Nothing At All
How ingenious do we need to be to understand Scripture? How complicated has God made it for us to get the truth from the Bible? Has God played a trick on us and hidden His truth somewhere inside our Bibles, saving us only if we can find it? Is God…
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Knowing the Love of God
Understanding the Love of God
Today when we think of love, we usually have the western culture idea. We think love is kissing and hugging. We say we are in love because he or she looks attractive. Or we have this giddy feeling inside and we think this is love.…
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What it Means to be Just Christians
The term “Christian” is found three times in the New Testament (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16). It means “Christ-like”, “training with Christ”, one identified with and follower of Christ.” In each case there is much said about those to whom this term was applied. The context of the passages…
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The Grace of God
What do you really know about the grace of God? What does the term grace mean? Do you think it means as some might say “prayer at the dinner table?” Or is there a greater significance placed on this all important concept? Such as: is it for everyone? Are there…
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The Dangers of Denominationalism
Many of you are aware of the many different churches that exist in our society and across the world. All of them cannot be right. Many of them are known as denominations. There are a few of them called denominations but are practicing truth. For example, there are churches called…
