Wednesday 10/02/13 Topic: The Fear of the Lord & Healing Series – And He Healed them all: The Fear of the Lord and Health XIII.mp3 Key Text: Prov. 3:7-8 Eph. 4:1-16 The Fear of the Lord and Healing… Tonight we continued from my suggestion to our church last week, that our giftedness will separate us all by itself. It will establish you in your place if only you will follow your natural inclinations. The difficulty comes when, we become self-aware. Like those grade school children, something happens over summer break for most 5th/6th graders and when they return, […]
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Grace, the law & Tithing I
Podcast: Download (33.8MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Grace, The Law & Tithing I The Law and the Believer I.mp3 A question came up in one of our small groups this month concerning tithing. I had recently been addressing this very same topic with the elders of our “sister church”, A Grace Place and with Dave in particular over the course of the last year. So it seemed almost fortuitous that this question should come up now while all the facts are so clearly in my mind to deal with them. One thing I have found, and in all honesty it has […]
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1 John 1:9 What the Bible REALLY says
Does 1 John 1:9 address Christians who are in need of forgiveness or was it addressing the lost? An article on 1 John 1:9, would, at one time, have been excessively brief, but truth always requires more explanation than lies, and with all the misinformation out there needing to be addressed – this article is MUCH longer than I would have liked. Let me begin by outlining a few simple facts that may keep many from having to read the entire article. 1 John chapter 1 NEVER tells anyone to come to Jesus by faith in His finished work – […]
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I do not enjoy writing about false doctrines, but I suspect that neither did Paul. Nevertheless, any serious reader of the New Testament cannot side-step the fact that Paul, Peter, John & James spent much of their letters addressing issues of false doctrines and the need for spirit-led teachers, grounded in the Word teaching sound doctrine. So with that in mind… I am addressing both Docetism and Gnosticism predominately because I refer to it in another article addressing I Jn. 1:9 & the believer. So I thought that rather than turning THAT study into two studies, I should write this […]
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