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• DO YOU TEACH REPENTANCE IS REQUIRED FOR A PERSON TO BE FORGIVEN?

  By disciplerami on March 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Does God save those who repent, or is a person forgiven by believing and accepting Jesus with forgiveness following? Examine the following passages. “and that repentance FOR forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations,… Read More ›

• DON’T DEVALUE FORGIVENESS: GETTING FORGIVENESS RIGHT, Dan Mayfield 

  By disciplerami on March 9, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  “bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.” Col. 3:13 Do you respect everyone for what they do? If you respect what everyone does,… Read More ›

• To You Who Bring Small Children to Church

  By disciplerami on March 9, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  There you are sitting in worship or Bible study. Your child, or toddler, is restless. Perhaps they’re even a little boisterous. You try to silence them, and nothing. You try to pacify them with food or toys, and nothing. Eventually,… Read More ›

• PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE BASICS, Dan Mayfield

  By disciplerami on March 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  “Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For this, ” you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder , you shall not steal, you shall not covet… Read More ›

• FELLOWSHIP NARROWLY DEFINED, Dan Mayfield

  By disciplerami on March 7, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  “14Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?” 2 Cor…. Read More ›

• THE SIN OF COMMISSION AND OMISSION

  By disciplerami on March 7, 2018 • ( 0 )

  There are many specific ways of sinning. These all fall generally under two ways; the sins of commission and the sins of omission. All sins fall under one or the other. The first, sins of commission, is a category of… Read More ›

• Salvation by gracious choice and not by flesh

  By disciplerami on March 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  “In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is… Read More ›

• PROVERBS 5, SEXUAL SELF-CONTROL

  By disciplerami on March 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  “3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech; 4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. 5Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol. 6She does not ponder… Read More ›

• NEW TESTAMENT MUSIC: WHAT DOES PSALLO MEAN?

  By disciplerami on March 6, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Psallo in the ancient classical and secular Greek suggested plucking on strings. Same with the Septuagint Gr (LXX) 150 years before Christ indicated plucking on strings. But by the time of N.T. Gr., meant to sing only. See Lexical sources.

• HIDING SIN ONLY HURTS MYSELF

  By disciplerami on March 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  ​”3When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long. 4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer.” Psalm 32… Read More ›