Tag: Christians
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Talking for hours with the prophet Paul
.. when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them.. Acts 20:7b ESV Talk of Jesus into the late night hours Our focus on this late-night incident in Troas is Paul’s midnight talk of JESUS and its impact on the Church. My secondary focus is a role of Paul we may not…
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GOD’S WORD for His Church
IN THE BEGINNING God created the heavens and the earth. IN THE BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’ Gospel…
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Syncretism – a little leaven added to Christ’s Church
Leaven & Syncretism In an earlier Saturday Post in this series I coined the teaching, preaching and study of Everythingology – definition: 1. Endless study of everything; 2. Theoretical theology of humanity as god. Today our focus turns toward the ‘isms‘ applied to the Church. Specifically, syncretism is form of everythingology stirred into the beliefs of Christians…
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An Antioch Blueprint of Church Evangelism
Antioch – a Crossroads Church of the Gospel And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. Acts of the Apostles 11:26 ESV – [CLICK HERE for other versions] ‘Christians’ – an all-too-familiar label ‘christians‘ don’t understand Hundreds of disciples of Jesus Christ were first mocked in Antioch as ‘Christians.’ The Church now claims this…
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Let’s cut the crap! Are we under Construction?
What Crap? ‘Our CHURCH has no crap to deal with,’ you say. Nonsense! In a brief post by a reader he addresses such crap using an illustration from Nehemiah. Definition usually vulgar : FECES usually vulgar : the act of defecating slang, sometimes vulgar : NONSENSE, RUBBISH also : STUFF (O.K. Maybe we don’t take…
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Families of Faith: Preacher’s Kids – 3
Appeal to a P.K. Paul makes clear his intention of duplicating righteous leadership to the child of his own mentoring, Timothy. In advice to his church it seems that P.K.’s (Preacher’s Kids) are all who are raised in Christ by the teaching of the Gospel. Conclusion of 3-part series to the stray sheep of the…
