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"Crisis Over LGBT Issues Grips United Methodist Church" informs the headline at the top of page A16 in the Sunday, February 24, 2019 edition of the Orlando Sentinel. However, this is just the beginning of what proved to be an interesting series of articles. One might say that
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"Does baptism have the power to save people?" The inspired apostle Peter answers, "Yes." The uninspired apostate, Max Lucado, answers a resounding "No!" according to the Oak Hills Church website. Now someone will surely think that his answer was taken out of context. No,
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The words apostate and apostasy do not appear in the King James Version of the Bible, but the Greek word from which they are derived does. In fact, there are two Greek words—apostasia and apostasion. This latter word is translated “divorcement” and refers to the falling away of a
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JOURNEY (NO, NOT THE BAND) What does it take to get the attention of the Religion Department at the Orlando Sentinel? Not the Scriptures; they haven't presented any messages from the Word of God lately, although if you pay them, they will publish it. If you send in
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This article is not about political parties. Anyone with a sense of history knows that we began with two major parties known as the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist political organizations. Since that time have emerged the Whig parties, the Know-Nothing, the Bull Moose, Communist, Green, Socialist, and mostly
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"SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW US" Every so often someone comes along with a saying or an argument that has been answered many times. So, we answer it again. One of those relates to Mark 9:38-40 or the even shorter account in Luke 9:49-50.
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Despite the fact that no authority exists to use instruments of music in worship during the Christian era, some keep trying to justify their use. Over the past 150 years, some of the wildest and most illogical schemes have been concocted in an effort to do what some are going
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Many people do not think in terms of worshiping in spirit and in truth. They may wonder, "Won't God accept any worship?" The Bible answers, "No." The phrase under consideration is Biblical; Jesus used it in a conversation with a Samaritan woman at a
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Many motorists in Dallas, Texas, probably had to look twice to make sure their eyes had not deceived them. But, no, one billboard in the area actually says: Black women take care of their families By taking care of themselves. ABORTION IS SELF-CARE. Isn't this billboard, sponsored
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LOSING OUR RELIGION Those who have lived in America for more than 50 years do not need statistics to back up the fact that our nation's interest in religion has waned—sharply. According to the latest Gallup poll released on December 24, 2018 (according to a Townhall post
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So, how did the old year end? About like it began. In the world, people are still being, uh, worldly. Oh, yes, and those purporting to be Christians are being worldly, also. Here’s a news brief from December 20, 2018 (in the Orlando Sentinel), which states that Catholic clergy
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JESUS' BIRTH We depend on our physical senses for information. What we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste profoundly affects our lives. These aspects of living we call real. We are also familiar with thinking and reasoning, which are less tangible, but they allow us to