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I Am A Good Person
“You don’t have to be a member of a church to be good. You don’t have to be a regular attender of the church assembly to be good. There are good people and bad people everywhere.” This is the way … Continue reading →
Posted in church, Grace, Judgment, Man, Sin, Word Study, worship
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Tagged Acts 11:22-24, Acts 20:7, acts of worship, barnabas, Christ is the savior of the body, church assembly, Colossians 3:16, Ecclesiastes 7:10, edification, Ephesians 2:8-9, Ephesians 5:19, fair, fair and kind, forsake not the assembling, Galatians 2:21, God does not weigh good deeds against bad deeds, good, good hearts, good men, good servants, good trees, grace found in Christ, Hebrews 10:24-25, I am a good person, James 2:10, joseph of arimathea, judgment and goodness, just and fair, kind, Luke 23:50-53, Mark 10:18, none good but God, none saved by own goodness, relationship with truth and God, Romans 3:23, the word good used in different ways, worship with other Christians
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The Jerusalem Council
The Jerusalem council (or conference) occurred c. 50 or 51 A.D. The reason for this meeting concerned a controversy in the church. Did gentiles need to be circumcised and keep the law (of Moses) to be saved? (Acts 15:1-5). Some … Continue reading →
Posted in church, Church Organization, Fellowship, Textual study
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Tagged 50 ad, 51 ad, abstain for these four things, abstain from bood, abstain from fornication, abstain from sexual immorality, abstain from things polluted by idols, abstain from things strangled, Acts 15, Amos 9:11-12, antioch, barnabas, blood, cephas, christian system, church autonomy, church conventions, church councils, church synods, cilicia, circumcision, cornelius' house, eating blood, evidence of gentile inclusion, false teachers, fellowship, first missionary journey, fornication, four things the gentiles should aviod, gentile inclusion, idols, james, james burton coffman, jerusalem, keeping law of moses, miracles, mosaic system, orin root, patriarchal system, paul, Paul accepted by apostles, paul and barnabas, Paul's authority, peter, right and wrong not determined by vote, right hand of fellowship, sexual immorality, show of unity, syria, the jerusalem conference, the Jerusalem council, things strangled, three dispensations, wonders
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Miracles (Part 2)
There are different words used in the Bible to describe super-natural work: (1) “Miracle” (e.g. Luke 23:8; Acts 2:22). The word is from the Greek, “dunamis” (it is from this word we derive our word “dynamite”). The word refers to … Continue reading →
Posted in Miracles, Pentecostalism, Signs, Textual study, Word Study
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 12, administations, apollos, apostle, barnabas, deacons, different words for miracle, diversity of gifts, dunimus, dynamite, elders, Ephesians 4, ergon, evangelist, exhorting, gift of discernment, gift of faith, gift of interpretation of tongues, gift of prophecy, gifts of communication, gifts of confirmation, gifts of healings, gifts of revelation, gifts of tongues, Granville Sharp, helps, in working of power, interpreters of tongues, kinds of tongues, liberal giving, miracle, miscellaneous works, not all had same gifts, pastors and teachers, philip, positions of communication, positions of leadership, positions of miracle worker, positions of revelation and teaching, prophet, Romans 12, scripture uses three groups of gifts, semeion, show mercy, sign, speakers of tongues, specific gifts, specific ministries, teacher, teras, the working of miracles, timothy, use of gifts for prfit of all, wonder, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, work, workers of miracles
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ETHICS: Life (Part 3)
Definition: “Abortion” in this study does not refer to spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) or accidental abortions. The word in this study refers to the voluntary termination of pregnancy. Abortion is common around the globe. Since Roe v. Wade decision (Jan. 22, … Continue reading →
Posted in Abortion, Ethics, History, Stats, stewardship, Suffering
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Tagged Abortion, anthenegaos, barnabas, beethoven, china, clement, crime and abortion, didache, ethics, freakonomics, hippocratic oath, hypocrates, incest, india, josephus, kathy ireland, life, pat buchanan, plato, quality of life, rape, roe v. wade, stephen dubner, steven levitt, stewardship, tertullian, the death of the west, tom dempsey
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