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I don’t blame him entirely, since he too was a product of his father’s rearing, which, as I understand it, was identical in method. A hard working, hard drinking railroad man who thought his work earned him the right to drink and fight on weekends, was my grandfather, Blackie. He walked off a...

When I was a young boy, my father hung a black iron sign with white letters that read, “I used to cry when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.” Those words were meant to keep us thankful for less while living in an underground, windowless block basement. My father’s initial...

One of many places that we lived prior to my naval enlistment set our family in a two story wooden home. I was probably 15 years of age then. The back yard, after several yards, sloped down a short hill. At the bottom of that incline was a two-car garage. The previous owner of the property dug...

These threads have so very long at times, I will merely go with the first point and make a comment. Maybe this point was covered by another member, maybe not. Here goes. 2 Peter 1:5-7, "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge...

The point of having a temple in the OT was for God's presence to abide, where sacrifices would take place. The body of a believer is today the temple of the Holy Ghost, not structures made with hands. We are each stones of that building, but the way churches operate today, we never get the...

Most of the Charismatic sect of the church are either sitting under prosperity, positive thinking, seeker sensitive, sheep/shepherding, or Oneness extremes. There are few inbetweens. Oh, I do know of a church whose leadership says they are evangelical, charismatic and liturgical. How possible...

_________________________________ What we have today within the prosperity gospel is nothing like what it is you wrote, FHI. They have missed the mark with their get rich quick seed faith nonsense. The emphasis has to, once again, be to raise up believers through Biblical training...

I was saved while in the Navy, on April 23, 1972, at the ripe old age of 19. How appropriate it was that I was at sea, in the Caribbean, when, as I was lying on my rack that evening, I asked for forgiveness. So often, in Scripture, the words that suit well a seaman’s life are used to define...

__________________________ My point is in relation to how today's ministries are run. Today, we have wealthy televangelists, one of whom boasts of his great wealth, Kenneth Copeland, whose fortune is valued at $746 million. He cannot, in any way, be emulating the ministers of the Bible. Sure...

2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. If we don't believe or are not acting in faith, still the Lord abides with us, because He is faithful. The stedfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. Great is His faithfulness...

________________________________________________ I enjoyed the recording you put on, Ep. I never learned to slap the bass, mostly because we didn't play that sort of music. For thirty years, I was the bassist in a five piece, then four, then trio, then duo, but our music was 50s-80s country...

As Christians, possessing or working for money is definitely not the issue. The temptation is "money possessing you", especially to the point where it becomes one’s underlying motivation in life. Some people are very motivated by the accumulation of money. In 1922, in Egypt, King Tut’s tomb...

__________________ Good question, bbyrd. The way some folks view the music of our youth, thinking that anything secular, especially if it's entertaining, and therefore devilish, is what Jelly meant. I'm new to this board, so I don't yet know the instigators. Maybe that was a taste.

________ I read A.S.'s Harvard address many times and have cited from it in articles I've written in the past. It is one of the most profoundly accurate statements on the condition of our country. I recall him making the statement that the spiritual quality of his people was much deeper due to...

Christians sometimes are slow to realize that their real riches are in Christ, not material things. How sad it is for the church today to be inundated with a prosperity emphasis in so many repetitious sermons. One of the most revealing lessons in Scripture is found in Mark 10:17-27, where the...

_________________________________ There is a sweetness about you, ByGrace, the cause of which, I am convinced, is Jesus. It's nice getting to know you.

________________________________________________ Thanks for the input, Lady. I graduated with a BA in literature, owned a bookstore for some time, and wrote for five newspapers. I love words, and have completed the reading of several books by Solzhenitsyn. His description of Stalinist...

Thank you for being so welcoming, stunned. I write from the notebooks I filled while being taught in the 70s by some very capable teachers. The content of their training came out of the first principles found in Heb. 6. To complete the course would take about 1.5 years, meeting twice daily...