The Top Seven Hurdles
Clear answers ready for these questions will help to arm you for the fight. 1. If there is a God, and if He is good, why is there pain and suffering in the world? Why did God create the devil? Why...
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Purpose-Driven Best Seller
Take a very careful look before you leap. A large number of people from assemblies are reading an influential and impossible-to-ignore book called The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren. Here are some figures about the book: • It received the Book of...
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Which Model?
The author appeals for honesty in talking about the New Testament blueprint. As Paul went into Corinth he had a goal to build a temple for God. He had a plan to follow. He later wrote, “According to the grace of...
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The Gift of Criticism
What big teeth you have! “If you bite and devour one another…” A critical spirit is killing us and some of our assemblies also. I feel qualified to speak on this subject because I’ve done a fair bit of it myself—far...
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Serving Our Generation
The clock is quickly counting down on the Boomers. The Boomers are dying. I ought to know. My boyhood friend, one year my senior, is gone. Just like that. Gone. We rode our bikes together, went swimming on hot summer afternoons,...
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The Paralysis of Analysis
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding” (Prov. 3:5). “Stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which...
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Questions about Questions
Is there such a thing as a bad question? The Book says Yes. Webster defines a question as “an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge” or “a subject or aspect in dispute or open for discussion.” While these may be...
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A United Strategy
Without cell phones, email, or faxes, the early believers kept in touch. It seems from his writings that Paul knew the spiritual state of most if not every assembly within his sphere of influence. Although constantly harassed by civil and...
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