ARE YOU “FILTERING” OR “ORGANIZING” THE TEACHING OF JESUS?
ARE YOU “FILTERING” OR “ORGANIZING” THE TEACHING OF JESUS? Every morning I make a thermos of my favorite Chinese Puerh loose tea. After letting it steep in boiling water for about three minutes I pour it though my strainer, pollute it with honey and…
Pentecost is for Today and for YOU!
A Letter About Pentecost Sunday I attended an Anglican church this morning with a friend, to celebrate Pentecost Sunday. I had been talking and studying with him about the New Testament teaching that “Pentecost” is an event that is supposed to be a part…
He was SERIOUS when He said “This is my body…”
I do encourage you to let it be the Lord Jesus who guides you in this matter, and I pray that you earnestly seek for Him to do so, in the same intensity with which you probably did when praying about that “baptism in…
“If YOU don’t kill yourself, then I’ll have to do it FOR you!”
“If YOU don’t kill yourself, then I’ll have to do it FOR you!” “38 You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I tell you not to resist an evil person….
Are All Versions of the New Testament Equally Reliable?
THE IMPORTANCE OF A LEGITIMATE TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT Most versions of the New Testament and Bible teachers declare something like, “No matter WHAT version of the New Testament you use, no substantial doctrine will be affected by it.” That statement is largely…
Faith alone, Works alone, Faith AND Works?
A new and young friend asked for my input about the issue of faith and works as they pertain to salvation. Here is my reply: *********************************************************************** You wrote, ‘…some people claim, “salvation by faith alone”, but they didn’t seem to consider scriptures where we…
Honoring Incomplete Christians Who Went Before Us
Honoring Incomplete Christians Who Went Before Us In our FB discussion groups dealing with restoring the Church to her original condition, there are obviously a number of you who highly critical of what you see within Christendom today. And you can count me…
Good Organizational Principles Take A Look At Infant Baptism
GOOD ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES TAKE A LOOK AT INFANT BAPTISM It may seem strange to evaluate a religious practice by looking at it from a secular viewpoint. But GOD’s idea of “religion” is much more inclusive than the picture which most of us have. And,…
You may well need to yet receive the Holy Spirit
Is the Holy Spirit WITH you, or IN you? “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him…
God CAN become your friend
DO YOU “KNOW” JESUS? “7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the KNOWLEDGE of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered…
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