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We noted last week the comments of John MacArthur, from his book, Twelve Ordinary Men, concerning the church. He wrote: "Peter preached at Pentecost, and three thousand people were added to the church" (69). It is absolutely a fact that Peter preached on that day (Acts 2:14,
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Who made these comments about salvation? He preached at Pentecost, and three thousand people were saved (Acts 2:14-41). Peter preached at Pentecost, and three thousand people were added to the church. The church, now some two thousand years old, exists today because these men launched the expansion of
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Back on September 6, 2021, Michael Hatcher re-published an article written previously by Ken Chumbley (date unknown), titled, " The Church and Change." In this article he mentions a book written by a former president of the Southern Baptist convention. His name was Wayne Dehoney, and the book
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As we conclude this series of articles on why not to buy and read the book under review, we want to notice not only what was included in the book—but also the significant things that were omitted, such as the importance of Biblical authority—how do we know what
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Acts One of the usual ways members of the churches of Christ check any book is to observe the handling of the truths set forth in the Book of Acts. Here, Jesus ascends into heaven (Acts 1:9-11) to receive the kingdom promised to His father (ancestor) David (Acts
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A number of years ago, I received a letter from a congregation saying they had withdrawn fellowship from a fellow preacher and his wife.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