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Sermon: Accept Pure and Undefiled Religion, 12/23/18
https://archive.org/details/EmbracePureAndUnderfilledReligionJames1DanMayfield Audio file, 33 minutes, preached Sunday, Dec 23, 2018 at the Owatonna church of Christ.
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HOW CAN YOU ‘HATE’ ALL RELIGION?
If you hate all religion, then you hate the “pure and undefiled religion in the sight of God which is to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:26-27. I do… Read More ›
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PRECIOUS LIFE: THE UNBORN, DM
Years ago I saw a movie about an african tribal dude who after hunting a gazelle talked to the dying animal with compassion. It was a little strange but I have a feeling that many American hunters could identify with… Read More ›
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THE IMPORTANT NURTURING, DM
We hear the stories of children abused and abandoned. And they are terrible. Children should be loved. But mostly my experience is that parents love their own children. They dote on them. They give them things and put them in… Read More ›
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FALLACY OF EXCLUDED MIDDLE: IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION
For some reason it has become popular to characterize all ‘religion’ as carnal and to insist that Christianity is about relationship with God. This fallacy itself is of man. It might be rooted in Luther’s error of faith alone doctrine…. Read More ›
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CHRISTIAN AND CONSERVATISM, DM
“My son, fear the LORD and the king; Do not associate with those who are given to change,” Pro.24:21 Someone said in defense of conservatism that it is not the worship of ashes, but rather is the preservation of the… Read More ›
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HONOR THE WOMAN, Dan Mayfield
“7You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers… Read More ›
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WASTING TIME, Dan Mayfield
“15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5 “Cherish is the word I use to describe”. These are the beginning words of one of the most… Read More ›
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THE DEVIL’S PURPOSE IS NOT GOD’S PURPOSE, DM
I heard two very intelligent Catholic men talking on Firing Line from decades ago where William F. Buckley was interviewing Malcolm Muggeridge who made the comment that the devil’s purpose is often the same as God’s purpose. That struck me… Read More ›
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THE DEVIL’S PURPOSE IS NOT GOD’S PURPOSE, DM
I heard two very intelligent men talking. It was Firing Line from decades ago where William F. Buckley was interviewing Malcolm Muggeridge. Both were Catholics and Muggeridge made a comment that often the devil’s purpose is often the same as… Read More ›