My longtime friend Jim Martin is a minister of the gospel in Waco TX, and writes what is, according to recent stats, the #9 “Church of Christ blog”. Jim began a series of articles yesterday titled 41 Things Married People Ought to Know. In part 1 he lists the first 10, including these 5:
Married people [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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If you are anything like me, you have been taught that you must always forgive everyone everything. No exceptions. No qualifications. Is that a correct teaching? I have come to believe that it is NOT. Let me present my thoughts on this subject.
I was studying the Bible recently when I noticed a few verses that [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by doc
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I saw that quote on a church sign recently. You know the ones — these are the signs that have quippy sayings that are intended to make you think, and sometimes make you groan. Like most quotes, some are better than others. This one got my attention though, because I wasn’t sure if I agreed [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.…10If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives. 1 John 1:8, 10
That seems pretty clear — we all sin. That’s exactly what Paul [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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30Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him. 31He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. 32He [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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At the cross? Allow me to suggest that’s only partially true.
Ask many Christians about the sins of the Israelites, and they’ll explain that the sins were “rolled forward”, and forgiven at the cross, as if each Israelite kept adding sins to his account until the day he died. I’d like to also suggest this to [...]
Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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That’s the title of a book I started reading over the weekend. It’s actually a fairly short book, but with other things stealing my time, it’s taken me a while to finish it.
Part fiction, part nonfiction, it’s taken a good bit from the experiences of the author, who lost both parents as a teenager and [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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I’ve been a Christian for 47 years. In that amount of time I’ve had several “Aha!” moments, which I like to call “hermeneutical epiphanies“. I’ve written about some of those in previous posts. One passage that particularly sticks in my mind from years past is Psalm 32:1-2, as quoted by the apostle Paul in the [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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