November 12, 2021
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Category:
HOMOSEXUALTY
| Tags: CULTURE, CHURCH, HOMOSEXUALITY
There is a growing movement within Christendom to have an acceptance of homosexuality while still holding to historical Christian sexual ethics. The Revoice Conference in 2018 was a significant step in advancing what are being called Side B Christians. Side A Christians fully embrace all tenets of LGBTQ practices, while Side B Christians see marriage as only between a man ...
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November 5, 2021
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Category:
DOCTRINE
| Tags: theology, Bible Study
Our theology breakfast book reading has been tackling the difficult issue of election and the various doctrines of grace. One of the issues that arises during these kinds of discussions is the matter of God's justice. How it is just for God to choose some and not others? How it is just for God to create so many people only to send most of them to Hell? How is it just for G...
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August 13, 2021
| Tags: Bible
A few years ago, the publishing world was hot with a very specific topic: trips to heaven. It became so common that it basically spawned its own genre that some called Heaven Tourism. The problems with this genre however were not too difficult to spot because there was information that could easily be known about this topic from the Scripture, while other details contradic...
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July 31, 2021
| Tags: GOD’S WILL
Knowing God's will is an ever-present issue in Christian living, and rightly so. We are called to follow Christ, to submit to his will, and to obey. These commands make it necessary to know what God wants us to do. This much is clear. But after that clarity, the chaos begins. There is no end to the wild ways people have pursued knowing God's will. People have done everythi...
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July 24, 2021
by Jay Lickey
| Tags: CHURCH, Leadership
Ways to know that membership is becoming more than it is supposed to be. ...
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July 4, 2021
by Caleb Morell
| Tags: CHURCH
This is a guest post from Caleb Morell who blogs at 9marks.org. It is brought in because we have been discussing this matter and this article is particularly helpful for a historical perspective.
These days, it's common for people to get baptized at 10 or younger. This is true across many credo-baptist traditions, but perhaps especially so among Baptists. How does our c...
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June 11, 2021
by Jay Lickey
| Tags: Relationships, CHURCH
Did this blog get hacked? What's happening here? Is pastor Jay finally losing it? Just last week there was a post about why Pastor Jay did not watch the show The Chosen, and now a post about watching it? Do we need an intervention?
What's happening here is a good opportunity to address something that will be a regular occurrence. God's people must always be ready to dea...
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May 28, 2021
by Jay Lickey
| Tags: CHRISTIAN LIVING
It seems that Christendom is starting to be delivered from the cheesy movies that seemed ubiquitous a few decades ago. The production quality and acting are getting to a level that can at least be stomached. This is a good and blessed thing. While excellence and faithfulness are not a necessary pairing, there should be a desire for excellence, and a pursuit for it should...
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May 15, 2021
by Jay Lickey
| Tags: Bible, CHURCH
Our church has been thinking a lot about baptism, the Lord's supper, church membership and how all of them tie together. One of the areas where this raises big questions is concerning children. Should children be baptized and brought into membership and the Lord's supper? As always, we turn to God's word for our answer. Were children baptized in the New Testament? There ...
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