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    Another horrendous story in the news

    If you're still one of those people who haven't recognized the times that we're in or even if you have, the news is running a story from Indonesia which is at once both bizarre and frightening. I haven't seen an explanation in terms of this being a "natural" event or a man made one, but these...
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    The Nature of God

    I enjoyed your posting, but take issue with your presentation of Christ's need for the Holy Spirit. Jesus was indeed fully man, but also fully God. His virgin birth was by the power of the Holy Spirit, so He was born of the Holy Spirit as much as He was born of the Father, and men always have a...
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    The Nature of God

    sorry, more problems with the editor functions. God doesn't have a nature (He created nature) so theologians talk about His character and His attributes. We are forced to describe the infinite with terms derived from the finite. The following post will contain my only real objection to your...
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    Something praise worthy: A church that doesn't bend to trends

    I've gotten no comments, good or evil, to my post, so I'll add one now that I've been in attendance for over a month at Grace Bible church (formerly Grace tabernacle). My first impression of the congregation since my return remains strong. I don't know if Pastor Randy's preaching has grown so...
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    Dear Church, Here’s Why People Are REALLY Leaving You

    You're not alone. Elijah felt this way when he was on the run from Jezebel, a queen who wanted his blood. This actually came after his greatest victory against the prophets of Baal. Keep trusting in Christ and He will guide you by His Spirit to a place where the Bible is taught, where Christ is...
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    Dear Church, Here’s Why People Are REALLY Leaving You

    The online editor isn't working properly for me again, so I hope this post comes out the way I intend it to. If the documentaries that I've been watching are true, it would seem that the gospel has been preached by others than the RCC throughout the history of that church, and that most groups...
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    We Need a HEROIC President—to save our (once Christian) nation

    The Free Masons recognize the supremacy of God though I'm not too sure about the rule of law, but this certainly doesn't make them a Christian organization. England was the seat of Free Masonry in Europe and its not such a big surprise that her colonies would go that way. Consider that every...
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    We Need a HEROIC President—to save our (once Christian) nation

    We don't agree on a whole lot, but thank you for some plain and simple truth.
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    We Need a HEROIC President—to save our (once Christian) nation

    Well we can't ask Marilyn Monroe to come forward and talk about her relationship with John or with Bobby Kennedy, though if you take the time to search a little you'll find at least some of the photos taken of them together. There's even some doubt as to whether she died accidentally, by...
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    The Catholic Church gets put down a lot, but it was all that could help

    I'd rather be foolish for Christ than stand with the world . I hate to be the one who breaks it to you, but the RCC will suffer horribly for its rebellion (consider what happened to the 10 tribes of Israel that followed Jeroboam.) However, the Lord knows His own, is completely able to keep them...
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    We Need a HEROIC President—to save our (once Christian) nation

    With regard to the OP. I've chosen to give some small financial support as well as my voice to Evan Mcmullin as candidate for President. The man has a late start because he was serving administratively in the Republican party and became disenchanted with the choice of candidate, but has already...
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    We Need a HEROIC President—to save our (once Christian) nation

    I thought that JFK was a good president and still do, but I wouldn't call a philanderer a good person and John Kennedy's less than moral behavior is well documented.
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    We Need a HEROIC President—to save our (once Christian) nation

    This is a current events and politics forum, not a worship forum, or a doctrinal forum and this is exactly the correct place to express political opinion and hopefully from a biblically informed point of view.
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    Dear Church, Here’s Why People Are REALLY Leaving You

    Who exactly would you define as "the mainstream Church in America"? Biblical Christianity is in line with conservatism, as God's way is not found in rebellion to authority and the establishments of this world, but rather submits to them in hope of a good testimony before God. Jesus taught His...
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    Removed!

    Christ brought down the wall of separation, but some folks will always try to build it back up. Its just wasted labor without reward, and reaps a harvest that they wouldn't want if they understood the consequences. The good news with respect to this is that one of the newer and faster growing...
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    The Catholic Church gets put down a lot, but it was all that could help

    As a recovering Catholic I'm certainly able to give you one. I stopped attending masses and other "sacramental" services the day that I was "confirmed" (at the age of 13,) for such reasons. Jesus said, 9. "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10...
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    The Catholic Church gets put down a lot, but it was all that could help

    This was pretty much basic catechism stuff and I'm pretty sure that you couldn't be confirmed without knowing it, however knowing it and believing it are two different things. Furthermore believing it doesn't make it true (I knew a girl once, a long time ago, who was convinced that the earth is...
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    The Catholic Church gets put down a lot, but it was all that could help

    I think that's a safe bet, but in this deceived and deceiving world I looked to "spiritual experience" when I was young as a means to know who God actually is. All the things that I examined showed themselves to be dead ends and of no real value in understanding the world or God. Yet it was the...
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    Republicans voting for Hillary?

    I hear this sort of thing a lot. I refuse to vote for Donald Trump and I refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton. I think that we're in a pretty sorry state of affairs when everyone I hear is talking about voting for the lesser of two terrible candidates offered up by the Republicans and Democrats. I...
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    The Catholic Church gets put down a lot, but it was all that could help

    He didn't actually condemn the practice, but identified it as vain and pointless, not recognizing God's omniscience nor His character.