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A number of years ago, I received a letter from a congregation saying they had withdrawn fellowship from a fellow preacher and his wife. The reasons were set forth in a letter and sent to me in order to discourage me from holding a gospel meeting in the area where
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Having discovered the authors' biases early on in a book written to help others learn how to read the Bible profitably was disheartening, nor were those first two errors all that proved to be at fault. After erroneously championing the idea that man has a sinful nature and insisting
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I had only been preaching about two years when a military family moved to the area and began worshiping with us. They were wonderful people, but we observed that they did not attend Bible classes. After they had visited a couple weeks, she mentioned that they came from a "
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Rehoboam replaced those shields with brass ones, which had to be a constant reminder of his stupidity in forsaking of the law (v. 10). A Divine assessment is given of him in verse 14: "And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.
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I had heard of the title of this book, and it has sold almost a million copies; so I thought it might have some good material in it. It only took to the third page to find out otherwise. In an effort, therefore, to keep anyone else from spending their
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Background This article came about by accident—or providence. I was sitting in a tire store while some routine maintenance was being completed and (as usual) was reading a book. A woman entered the waiting room and sat down in one of a row of chairs perpendicular to the row
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One of the most preposterous notions ever to be published by anyone can be found in the July 5, 2021 issue of Scientific American by Allison Hopper. No one could even imagine the level of absurdity that this article contains; truly, it is worthy of the Babylon Bee, which publishes
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A request was mailed in to comment more about Acts 8:12 and how much knowledge of the kingdom (church) is necessary for a person’s baptism to be valid. It is difficult to be precise in giving an answer because our situation today is so much different than the
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The title of this book comes from Ecclesiastes 1:9: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Certainly, there is nothing new under the sun when
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Released on June 8, 2021 was the newest poll regarding the attitude of Americans toward same-sex marriages. Before mentioning how many approve such a situation, it ought to be noted that every percentage point favoring homosexual marriage is also one against the Bible—whether people realize it or not.
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Recently, the following e-mail was received: "Good morning. I really don't know how to say this, but I need a good prayer. I keep falling back into sin. I really don't like that I continue to do this! Let me know how to change
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Considering Ahab in the north and some of the wicked kings in the south, such as Jehoram (the king who never was faithful) and Ahaz (the "never learn a lesson" king), how can Manasseh possibly be considered the worst and most evil of all the kings of Judah?