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Do any of these bother you?
Mark Twain famously said, “Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.” While Mark Twain (Samuel Clements) seems to have not been overly religious, … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, christian faith, confession, courage, discipleship, disobedience, evangelism, faith, faithfulness, forgiveness, grace, hope, love, meaning of life, obedience, only way, religion, repentance, sacrifice, salvation, sin, theology, truth, wisdom, works, worship
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Following Jesus into Places We Might Not Expect, Back to the Scriptures
We still sing “Anywhere With Jesus” in our hymnal and I’m thankful that we do. It’s a wonderful reminder of what discipleship has always supposed to have been about— following. It’s easy to forget these days, you know. In a … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged Bible, Christ, commands, commentaries, discipleship, faithfulness, false teaching, Gospel, grace, hope, judgment, leadership, obedience, pattern, promises, religion, salvation, Scriptures, theology, traditions, truth
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About Prophetesses
In a post a short while ago I spoke about women’s roles in the church. It generated some good questions, one of them was about the prophetesses of 1 Corinthians 11. The answer to this question deserves something more than a … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament
Tagged authority, church, discipleship, faith, faithfulness, false teaching, gender, justice, leaders, leadership, obedience, pattern, Paul, prayer, preaching, prophecy, purpose, religion, roles, sacrifice, sin, submission, teaching, wisdom, worship
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Getting “20/20 Foresight”
I’ve been listening to a class from Yale on the history of western civilization. It’s been interesting on a number of history-geek levels, but one thing that really has struck me has been how certain pivotal events in history didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, church, courage, discipleship, faith, faithfulness, hope, judgment, meaning of life, obedience, pattern, religion, repentance, salvation, sin, suffering, wisdom
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“…But what Does the Bible say about that?”—Leadership and Gender in the Church
Many in the religious world around us now include women in leadership of their churches—in both worship and day to day leadership. The world, of course, applauds this taking this path as an enlightened evolution of religion; but the world has … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament
Tagged Bible teachings, church, discipleship, doctrines, equality, fair, fairness, faith, faithfulness, false teaching, judgment, leadership, men, obedience, pattern, purpose, religion, roles, sin, theology, truth, wisdom, women, worship
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To God, the Things That Are God’s
“And He *said to them, ‘Whose likeness and inscription is this?’ They *said to Him, ‘Caesar’s.’ Then He *said to them, ‘Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.’” (Matthew 22:20, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, church, courage, discipleship, faith, faithfulness, fear, forgiveness, Gospel, grace, hope, judgment, love, meaning of life, obedience, religion, salvation, worship
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Who Are We, and What Are We About? (part 2)
In my last posting I reflected on an important question for the church (not just individual Christians) to think about: “Who are we and what are we about?” We looked at Scripture to get a glimpse of who the Bible says … Continue reading
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Tagged benevolent, commands, commission, discipleship, equipping, evangelism, false teaching, feed the hungry, fellowship, forgiveness, generosity, Gospel, helping the poor, hospitality, love, mission, obedience, one another, religion, sacrifice, scripture, sharing the Gospel, teaching, the church, the church of Christ, theology, worship, worship of God
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Who Are We; And What Are We About? (part 1)
A youth minister that a few of our old-timers will remember, Reid Moon, was fairly famous for his questions that seemed to come right out of left field—that would make you think a little deeper. One of his more famous … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament
Tagged body of Christ, bride of Christ, church, false teaching, family, household of God, identification, identity, love, Messiah, new Israel, obedience, pattern, philanthropy, priesthood, priests, religion, social club, the saved, theology
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The Same, but Different
Romans 6:3, 4 “Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Leadership, Christianity
Tagged attendance, baptism, baptize, Bible, changes, courage, dealing with temptation, different, family, generosity, grace, life changes, love, meaning of life, money, prayer, purpose, religion, salvation, stresses, suffering, time usage, trials, use of time, wisdom
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Following Jesus to unexpected places—Samaritans
“How did a pit stop for lunch in Sychar turn into an evangelistic harvest of despised Samaritans?” Continue reading →