Are there people in the world who teach things not in accordance with God’s will? Are there those who teach error that could cause one to be lost? Are there “false teachers” in the world today? Does it make any difference what we believe, as long as we are sincere in our belief? The answer [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by doc
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While driving from Dallas to Austin recently, I saw a banner with that phrase on it — 30-minute worship. My reaction was, Really? So who’s this targeting? People who just can’t be bothered to give more than 30 minutes out of their busy life to Jesus on Sunday morning?
I’m pretty sure Jesus didn’t respond to [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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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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You don’t have to search very far to find some “doom & gloomer” tell you the church is dying. You also don’t have to go very far to see a church in which many of its young people “give their lives to Christ”, then a year or two after they leave home, most of those [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Saviour? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the [...]
Posted on July 4th, 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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A post yesterday on the Christian PF blog got me thinking about a fairly common practice. Let me ask you this: When someone offers to do something nice for you or to give you something, what’s your first response? If you’re out to dinner with a friend, and she picks up the check, do you [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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I thought I had heard just about everything! I was truly amazed when we, as a country, began to debate same-sex marriage. I could not believe that a country founded on Christian principles (and we were) could ever sink so low as to even think about marriage being anything but one man and one woman. [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2009 by doc
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Sin is always a great deceiver (Hebrews 3:13), and those who promote it are also deceivers (Romans 1:32). Sin always promises happiness but only provides temporary pleasure while doing damage to the soul and to society.
Just as fornication damages the family and its consequences of children of unwed mothers, poverty and disease affects our society, [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2009 by trp
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Yes, it is that time of the year, and , all over the world, people are celebrating Easter. What, in reality, are they celebrating?
When the Catholic Church began to try to convert the entire world, they soon found that , while people may have converted to nominal Catholicism, those same people were very reluctant to [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2009 by doc
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