The Christian Foundation

Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal: The Lord knows those who are his, and let everyone that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. -2 Tim. 2:19 Today I had a friend tell me that he hates seeing how doctrines divide the church today. Then he added: “I know there [...]

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Honest and Historic Christianity

I’ve spent the last couple days working on a potential ebook that I want to call Honest, Historic Christianity. If you’re a reader of this blog, I wouldn’t mind you helping me with it. It is not linked to on my web site, only here. It’s only started, but it is about 17 pages of [...]

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Our Very Real God

The quotes used below are from the Jan. 15 posting at a blog at http://www.beautyfromtheheart.org/index.html. Great blog, and I’ll add it to my blogroll as soon as I get a chance. Back in 1982, at the tender age of 21, I had become an atheist. I wasn’t an atheist very long, just over a couple months, but [...]

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The Presence of God

The comments are turned back on. I found a much better spam filter that I was able to add as a plugin. They had great instructions, so it wasn’t too hard to figure out how to do it. I have a couple recent prayer stories I could add to my prayer answers series, but I [...]

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God’s Not a Legalist

The high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless, Asa’s heart was perfect all his days. ~2 Chronicles 15:17 God’s not a legalist. Other kings were commended for getting rid of their high places, but Asa didn’t do it. Nevertheless, Asa’s heart was perfect, says the Holy Spirit through the Scriptures. If you’ve [...]

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Righteousness Is Its Own Reward

We will not require that you punish our accusers; they being sufficiently punished by their present wickedness and ignorance of what is right. ~Justin Martyr, c. A.D. 150 Yesterday my son, upon hearing that a fellow student had ignored a teacher’s instructions without consequence, decided that he had been a fool for his own obedience. [...]

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Try Jesus

Note: comments are enabled again; I found a better filter.  Today we passed a church marquis that read, “For a happier year, try Jesus in 2009.” I understand the mentality that wants to ask people to try Jesus, but something about that statement really bothered me. Contrary to popular belief, Jesus is not pleading or [...]

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Prayer Answers #7 – Last Post of 2008

I visited a local church tonight with three other adults and about 10 of our teenagers. We were only there for about an hour and a half, which was completely filled by the testimony portion of their New Year’s Eve service. There, a man I know a little bit told one of the neatest prayer [...]

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