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• EXPELLED – BEN STEIN MOVIE

  By disciplerami on February 21, 2008 • ( 0 )

  _____________________________________________ “Expelled” documents how teachers and scientists alike are being ridiculed daily, denied tenure and even fired believing there is evidence of “design” in nature and challenging the current orthodoxy that life is entirely a result of random chance.”1_____________________________________________ What… Read More ›

• TENDING THE EYES

  By disciplerami on February 20, 2008 • ( 1 )

  The eye is sophisticated and powerful able to discern the difference between 256,000 Wal-Mart paint swatches. With a gazillion rods and cones, they discern light and dark, distance, and color. When my eyes are open, they are taking in all… Read More ›

• THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB

  By disciplerami on February 12, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Once the tent of meeting was erected as the Lord commanded, Moses was given instruction in Leviticus 1ff on the sacrifices to be brought to the Lord. God describes what the sacrifices were to be and the purpose for which… Read More ›

• CHURCH DISCIPLE: DISCIPLINE IN THE CHURCH

  By disciplerami on February 11, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Many churches do not practice the church discipline that is seen and commanded in the Bible (Matthew 18:15-20; 1 Cor. 5). Perhaps they think it is an outdated practice or maybe they are afraid to confront sin. What organization does… Read More ›

• BE CAREFUL ABOUT GIVING PERMISSION

  By disciplerami on February 9, 2008 • ( 1 )

  Do we give permission for people to go where God has not given permission? Do we give our stamp of approval for people to do and say what God has not given permission to do and say? I heard someone… Read More ›

• MOSES IN THE PROMISED LAND

  By disciplerami on February 9, 2008 • ( 2 )

  Not until a brief visit on the Mount of Transfiguration did Moses get to step foot into the Promised Land (Mt. 17). Actually, during Moses’ lifetime he was not permitted to enter because “during the strife of the congregation, you… Read More ›

• GREEK PREPOSITION AND OUR RELATIONSHIP TO ELDERS

  By disciplerami on January 31, 2008 • ( 0 )

  The Eldership, called the “Presbytery” or the “board of Elders”, is invested by God with authority to oversee and shepherd the church. The diagram (from here) shows some relevant Greek prepositions related to the topic of Elders’ authority. The prepositions… Read More ›

• EMBRACE THE DISCOMFORT?

  By disciplerami on January 30, 2008 • ( 3 )

  The members of the Quail Springs Church of Christ were recently challenged to “embrace discomfort” for the sake of breaking down barriers and for the mission of reaching the lost. It wasn’t the “discomfort” of uncushioned pews or poor ventilation,… Read More ›

• IN CONCERN OF CHURCH "GROWTH"

  By disciplerami on January 29, 2008 • ( 0 )

  I lament the things being adopted in churches today in the name of church growth. The early church grew because saved people were added to Jesus’ church.1 “And God was adding to their number day by day those who were… Read More ›

• WHAT IS THE CHURCH DOING TODAY?

  By disciplerami on January 29, 2008 • ( 0 )

  When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was disappointed at the laxity of the white churches who acted as spectators in that struggle for freedom, he wrote the following from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Hearkening back to a time when… Read More ›