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Who Moved the . . . Bread of Life?

Bread Round by Webandi from Pixabay

I heard a sermon a while back given by Dr. DA Waite of The Bible for Today ministries out of Collingswood, New Jersey.

He was discussing the battle for the Masoretic Hebrew text and the Greek Textus Receptus. The texts that were the foundation of the Bible long before 1881. Which was the year that two men, Brooke Foss Wescott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, introduced a new text upon the world.

A text that would introduce corruption in the church by destroying confidence in the purity of God’s words.

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A “Tsunami Warning” for the U.S.

tsunami city by samhalder from pixabay

Over the years, it has become a bit of an obsession with me to watch footage of the Tsunami that hit Japan back in 2011. Especially now, with the new earthquake that just Japan around the first of this month.

There always seems to be a new video that has been released covering that 2011 tragedy which hit many of the eastern coastal towns.

This obsession is due, in part, to my fascination with the power of water. The ocean is both beautiful and terrifying. It cannot be underestimated.

And it causes me to think that the Japanese people were just unprepared for what took place. They trusted that the tsunami walls were built high enough to hold back the surge.

Yet, their entire lives were devastated in an instant. Lives that they had built, over many generations, were wiped out in just a few minutes.

So, I wonder how we, in the United States, would react if such a tragedy struck here?

How would we, who live right smack dab in the Midwest (for example), face such a disaster? We who live in the small towns and farm communities that generally don’t face any serious threat of earthquakes, floods, hurricane’s, Tsunami’s, or comet strikes.

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The Gift Rarely Opened

Frost and Snowflakes by Pezibear from Pixabay

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (II Corinthians 3:18)

As we grow in the Lord, we will have a deeper sense of our own failures, our own weaknesses, and of our own sinfulness.

This is in direct contrast to what we are often taught in our churches. As with the idea that we will become better and better and more aware of our own ability to overcome sin and temptation.

The young believer, who generally lacks experience and discernment, is very prone to this false way of thinking. Because successes are often easier and more dramatic in the lives of the young. Especially those who’ve come out of some deep experience of immorality, drugs, or rebellion. Some, even experiencing an immediate and outwardly-miraculous deliverance from sin, temptation, or addiction.

But, in the lives of older believers, this is not the normal experience.

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Contending with Spiritual “Kung Fu”

kung fu tiger by inspiredimages from Pixabay

Frankly, I think that most churches, regardless of the church, are staffed with leadership that don’t truly understand the need for the application of the Cross in their own live

Even while those same leaders preach of the Cross, taking up your Cross, bearing your own Cross, and a hundred other biblical phrases dealing with the Cross, they fail to understand what that truly means.

I know this is true.

Because, right now, I am preaching (in my own head) to a 19-year-old young man who was in desperate need of this information. Who didn’t believe he needed to hear it.

That young man was me.

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The Church “Tone” Police

Man finger on lips by Sammy-Sander

Bible churches having been changing their attitude toward truth, doctrine, and the defense of the faith.

That is not a charge that is easy for me to make. Believe it or not, I tend to resist such ideas.

I want to think the best thoughts about those who are in leadership. Not only of local church leadership, but also of those in our Christian universities and seminaries.

To give leaders and teachers the benefit of the doubt.

Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that our churches are consistently, though subtly, switching from proclaiming truth as their first priority to elevating experience, good works, and outward unity as their highest priority.

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When Christian Leaders Deny the Word of God

Niagara Amer from River by valves from Pixabay

I look carefully at the Bible atlases that are sold in the Christian bookstores.

And, sadly, most of them are predictably wrong on a couple of the same things.

Such as the route of the Exodus and the general point where Israel crossed the Red Sea. And even the location of Mount Sinai.

However, I pretty much expect mainstream Christian publishers to take the “party line” on these things.

Especially since mainstream Christian theologians tend to have specific axes to grind about biblical miracles. About miracles they simply refuse to believe.

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Are You Walking by Works Instead of Faith?

Rusted Old Plane

“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:” (Colossians 2:6)

Perhaps the most common error we make as born-again believers, is to deviate from the path of simple faith in God’s word. Which means we are drawn aside to follow some rabbit trail in pursuing some unbiblical way of living this new life.

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Did Jesus Die for YOU?

Male in Waste Basket

 

The doctrine of the supposed “Limited Atonement” of Christ is held by many religious groups within “Christendom”.

But it is not a biblically-sound belief.

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