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• QUAIL SPRINGS AND MARK HENDERSON

  By disciplerami on April 3, 2009 • ( 16 )

  

  The Oklahoman, Newsok.com Recently I received an email from an individual who had some information about the Quail Springs church in Oklahoma City. I will not give the individual’s name, and I know nothing about him but his name, and… Read More ›

• NECESSARY INFERENCE, Prof. D.R.Dungan

  By disciplerami on April 3, 2009 • ( 6 )

  Dungan says in his book on Hermeneutics that “Inference may be used, if legitimate.” On page 91, he writes, “This is done by associating the whole number of things which are known, as to what else was done or said… Read More ›

• HERMENEUTICS: PRESUMPTUOUS SINS

  By disciplerami on April 3, 2009 • ( 10 )

  “Also keep back Thy servant from presumptuous sins;…” (Ps 19:13) To be presumptuous is to presume and to presume is “to suppose to be true without proof.” People are presumed innocent until proven guilty as a safeguard to individuals liberties… Read More ›

• AVOIDING LEGALISM AT BOTH EXTREMES

  By disciplerami on March 30, 2009 • ( 53 )

  Legalism has always been a problem for man. It’s a problem for men who seek to skirt around the Word of God in order to justify sin. They apply their lawyerly skills so that repentance doesn’t happen and more people… Read More ›

• ELDERS, OVERSEERS, AND SHEPHERDS

  By disciplerami on March 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The Elders, Bishops, Presbyters, Overseers, Shepherds and Pastors are all the same people who meet the same qualifications as outlined in Titus 1:5ff and 1 Timothy 3:1ff. The different terms used for the same office relate to the different aspects… Read More ›

• WHAT YOU REALLY WANT

  By disciplerami on March 26, 2009 • ( 2 )

  I heard the story of an overweight woman who signed up at a fitness club. She wanted to be more attractive to her husband and felt her weight was putting a strain on the marriage. The fitness instructor brought her… Read More ›

• LOVE & FORGIVE LIKE GOD

  By disciplerami on March 26, 2009 • ( 0 )

  “And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” – Matthew. 6:12 (cf. Luke 17:3,4) From time to time the topic of forgiveness comes up and invariably the denominational idea of unconditional forgiveness arises – as if… Read More ›

• AGAINST CALVINISM – JESUS DIED FOR ALL

  By disciplerami on March 25, 2009 • ( 32 )

  

  Jesus died that He might taste death for all. “But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that… Read More ›

• ASK FOR MERCY

  By disciplerami on March 24, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  “In wrath, remember mercy.” – Hab. 3:2 People need hope. But many place their trust in themselves instead of God. This is futile. All worrying is destructive because the worrier is too self-absorbed to trust in God. Others don’t turn… Read More ›

• FOLLY OF IDOL WORSHIP

  By disciplerami on March 21, 2009 • ( 3 )

  Man is so instinctively predisposed to give worship that even the obstinate atheist worships something – exalting himself, his strength, his intellect, or his money. It is folly that he bows to “superstitions” he claims he has risen above. Nations… Read More ›