_____________________________________________ “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 ›
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TENDING THE EYES
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
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
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 Perhaps they think it is an outdated practice or maybe they are afraid to confront sin.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
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
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
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 ›
IN CONCERN OF CHURCH "GROWTH"
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?
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 ›
CHRISTIANS AND THE STATE
“Yet today there is discomfort among many in America at the spectacle of presidential candidates waving their Bibles alongside their flags. In civics lessons long ago, we learned that there is supposed to be a boundary between church and state…. Read More ›
A Conquering Faith 