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Take Your Vitamins! Sermon Audio Available
My sermon Take Your Vitamins is now available in audio format. Look for the word FEATURED or the name of the file on Sermon Audios, in the NEW Assorted Sermon Audios.
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Who Can Come to Church? ... and Snow!
Words of Wisdom Articles are mini articles that have been printed in the Oneida, TN, Independent Herald newspaper since September 2019. “Words of Wisdom” is published online weekly and available on: www.ihoneida.com/words-of-wisdom . Last week’s contribution was Who Can Come to Church? for January 23, 2024. This week’s contribution is Snow for January 30, 2024.
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QA: Why Should We Attend Services?
My QA: Our Elders teach that our whole life is "worship". Why should we attend services? is now available in Bible Content on Misunderstood Scriptures. It is also available in Questions Answered from November, 2018.
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Recipe For Building a Better Church
Gerald Cowan's articles, Recipe for Building a Better Church and How We Can Build a Better Church, are now available in my NEW PAGE dedicated to his unpublished works, Publications from Gerald Cowan.
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Words of Wisdom Radio, February 14 - 18, 2021
My Words of Wisdom Audios are 1-minute radio lessons which are studies from the Bible for our current times. They are broadcast on www.wecoradio.com / FM 101.3 after the noon news; and they are also available in Words of Wisdom Radio, with transcripts available at Words of Wisdom Radio Transcripts. This week's lessons are:
- 14/2 Love Is Not a Valentine
- 15/2 Love the Church of Christ
- 16/2 Those Who Love God
- 17/2 Wisdom of Words
- 18/2 The Woe of Roe
Older Words of Wisdom radio minutes are found in Words of Wisdom Archive.
Donnie Barnes' Happy New Year
Donnie Barnes' Happy New Year Resolutions is now available in Publications from Guest Authors.
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QA: Do Devout Friends Have to be Baptized?
My QA: Do devout friends have to be baptized and go to the same church to be saved with me? from September 1, 2019, is now available in Questions Answered.
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Forgiveness and Faith
Jesus Christ said: "’Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him.’ And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith" (Luke 17:3-5).
(1) Who are you to judge another person’s heart? Legislation determining what are “hate crimes,” and Media rejecting confession of wrong-doing are contrary to God’s Word.
(2) Jesus said, “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). We must assume that spoken words are “heart-felt.”
(3) Sin is a violation of God’s Word. Who are you to add arbitrary, man-made “works of penance” to make someone’s repentance to your liking? It is “godly sorrow [that] produces repentance leading to salvation” (2 Corinthians 7:10). Repentance is between the sinner and God. - 6-15-2021
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Are You Part of the 5G Network?
Edd Sterchi's Are You Part of the 5G Network? is now available in Publications from Guest Authors.
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QA: Where Did Mother's Day Come From?
My QA: Where did Mother's Day come from? dealt with in May, 2019, is available in Questions Answered.
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The Golden Church: Sermon Slides Now Available
In light of Patrick's Day, my sermon The Golden Church, taken from Ephesians 3:8-12, is now available in Sermon Powerpoints.
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Together Again - Sermon Slides Now Available
In light of continued COVID measures, my sermon Together Again, taken from 1 Corinthians 14:23-35, is now available in Sermon Powerpoints.
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QA: Are People Wrong If They Love God?
In light of the holiday season, QUESTION: Are people wrong who love God? - February 9, 2020
ANSWER: Jesus Christ is the discerner of who does, or does not, love God. (John 5:42) Since He knows the hearts, the rest of us must be determined by the following: "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments." (1 John 5:2) "If anyone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar. (1 John 4:20-21) ... Read More of this and other QA on my Questions Answered page.
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The Danger of a Potluck - Sermon Slides Available
My sermon slides for The Danger of a Potluck, based on 2 Kings 4:38-41, are now available in Sermon PowerPoints.
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Bob Turner's "Abilities, Motivation, Attitude"
Bob Turner's short article, Abilities, Motivation, Attitude, focusing on Ephesians 4:11-16, is now available on Publications from Guest Authors.
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Choices of Difference: Sermon Now Available
My sermon from July 12, 2020, Galatians 6: Choices of Difference, is now available in Sermon PowerPoints.
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QA: Why Does Anyone Need to Assemble?
QUESTION: If the church exists in homes, why does anyone need to assemble? - May 17, 2020 [Full answer is available in Publications On COVID Quarantine 2020]
ANSWER: Because Scripture teaches the need for assembling as saints. Our worship is NOT determined by the place, but by the action and attitude. Our word "worship" comes in two parts: 1. When Jesus quoted Isaiah 29:13 in Matthew 15:9, ... "worship" is a reverential attitude (sebomai) in our hearts. However another word translated "worship" (proskunew) refers to direct action(s) expressing that reverence. ... 2. Paul wrote to the "church of God which is at Corinth", whether or not they were assembled. He called attention to the need to assemble together when giving instructions about miraculous spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 14:23-26). ... Read More
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QA: Why Are People Who Believe in Jesus, and Already Saved, Not Christians?
Question: Why do you feel people who believe in Jesus, and have already been saved, are not Christians? - January, 2019
Answer: What I “feel” has nothing whatever to do with what I preach and teach. And no one has been saved by their own understanding, but without doing what Jesus commands. “Feelings” do not establish “doctrine.” Jesus said: “And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Mark 7:7). ... Without “sound doctrine,” we would be “tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting” (Ephesians 4:14). No one in the churches of Chist determines “the word” to be preached. Read the complete answer on Questions Answered.
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