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This 2016 lectureship book, edited by David Brown, contains the material presented at the Contending for the Faith lectures, hosted by the Spring Church of Christ. It serves two valuable purposes: 1) It provides fundamental Bible teaching on such important matters as baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues,
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HOUSTON, TX – Beth Moore, wildly popular Southern Baptist teacher and fawning friend of American Christian icons Joel and Victoria Osteen, is encouraging Christians to apprehend the Holy Spirit – the third Person of the Trinity – by using a butterfly net. This clarification comes in light of a recent tweet in which
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Mankind looks at the future, and it appears to be bleak. This theme has surfaced in dozens of literary works. One of those was The Time Machine, written by H. G. Wells in 1895, which involved a future society in which there were only two races: the Eloi, who lived
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Joel Osteen is one of the most well-known and popular religious personalities in the nation. In 2004, he wrote the book, Your Best Life Now, which was #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. It remained on that list nearly four years and sold more than four
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Ask Amy is an advice column with which Spiritual Perspectives has taken issue (and rightly so) because the author of it frequently contradicts Biblical values. However, the March 6th column was intriguing—not so much for the advice but for the problem itself. A woman in her 30s was sitting
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"I'M NOT HERE TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY'RE DOING WRONG." Does it really matter what the subject is when a leading religious figure makes a statement such as the one in the above title? After thinking about the meaning of that sentence, different words come
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In 2 Timothy 3:1, Paul warns of perilous times to come, after which he describes what ungodly men will be like. One of the last descriptions says that they "creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always
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To Whom It May Concern: I read in the Winter-Spring issue of ACU TODAY that ACU will be adding the papers of Max Lucado to an honored place in the Milliken Special Collections and Archives of the Brown Library. As a Christian, a preacher of the Gospel, a student
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THE EXISTENCE OF HYPOCRITES Almost everybody knows someone who refuses to become a Christian because, he says, "There are too many hypocrites in the church." Frankly, there are some. Does that observation qualify as a new revelation? Hardly. Jesus denounced some of the leading scribes and Pharisees as
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Paul wrote 1-2 Timothy and Titus to two preachers. For a long time many scholars have referred to these letters as the "pastoral epistles," which is weird, since Timothy and Titus were evangelists ot pletters were addressed Paul wrote 1-2 Timothy and Titus to two preachers.
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A few centuries ago, some began to notice the disunity of denominationalism and the confusion that it caused; they realized that this situation was not the way God desired it to be. Some suggested restoration—that Christians ought to forsake the division that had taken centuries to develop and simply
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Peter, an apostle of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, not only preached the first sermon on the Day of Pentecost; he also wrote letters to brethren, one of which contains the words, Love the brotherhood (1 Peter 2:17), which is the equivalent of loving the church, the body