Elders

Why Elders?

Podcast: Download (3.6KB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS NOTE: If you are not a reader, we have an extensive series on this topic which is available in our ‘Message Archive” section. Even though it is audio it is NOT for the faint of heart. Back in those days the messages were nearly all an hour and a half long and were very, very detailed. This was necessary to bring our church out of a firmly entrenched tradition spanning many years into a scriptural view of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let me first say that we are not a mainstream […]

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Is God Sovereign?

Let’s begin by establishing what we mean by the word “Sovereign”. There is no generally accepted meaning to this word even though Webster seems to make it clear, religious people (both Christian and otherwise) have deliberated needlessly over this word for millennia. As for OUR purposes in this study we will establish the  meaning as – to possess the exclusive right to exercise, within specific jurisdictions, the functions of a potentate and within such jurisdictions – to be answerable to no higher authority. In the case of God, this is perhaps realized in no greater way than in His position as Judge. Consider […]

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Eternal life salvation

What are Eternal Life and Salvation?

The modern church has done a huge disservice to the world and the Kingdom of God by the way in which we have presented the gospel.  To quote a familiar idiom, “We have majored on minors and minored on majors”.  The preaching of the gospel or “good news” in the modern world has focused almost entirely upon a single aspect of what humanity is being saved from, and hardly focused at all upon what man has been saved to!  You may want to remember this as we go forward in this article because I will refer back to it. In […]

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