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What Does It Mean to Believe?
by Edward W. H. Vick The question is: What does it mean to believe? The following sentences express some themes of the thirteen chapters of the book. Ask yourself these questions: What do I believe? Is it the same as what I say I believe, or think I believe? Is my belief reasonable? Is it…
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How is the Bible authoritative?
by Edward W. H. Vick The question is: How to explain that the Bible has authority? That the Bible is unique is not the question. But why is it unique? Ask different people and you will get different answers, for different people read the Bible for different reasons, approaching it in different ways according…
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Is Jesus coming "soon"?
by Edward W. H. Vick Here is the question for you: What do you make of the following sentences taken with the qualification, ‘But we cannot tell you when’? The end of the world is nigh. Jesus is coming again soon? God is about to judge the world and bring in his kingdom. ************************* I…
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A REAL PROBLEM IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
by Rev. Dr. Robert R. LaRochelle To be honest with you, my original intent in writing this article was to do a followup look at the visit of Pope Francis to the United States. I was planning to look at Catholicism and Protestantism in relation to one another at this point nearly 500 years after…
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What is a proper response to the Paris attacks?
by Chris Eyre (Reprinted from his website: http://eyrelines.energion.net/?p=884) The attacks in Paris last night are horrifying in their death toll, the number of those injured and that fact that there was no conceivable offense which the victims had committed, apart, that is, from living in France. My prayers go with the families of those killed…
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Getting Along with the Exes
by Henry Neufeld, Publisher No, no, no! Not the ex-spouses. The ex-faiths! You see, while Jody and I were both members of a United Methodist congregation when we got married, we had both come to that place by leaving other churches. Jody was ex-Catholic, and I was ex-Seventh-day Adventist. These are both groups that have…
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Going Deeper in Bible Study
by Henry Neufeld, Publisher Recently I was listening to an explanation of a Bible passage by a writer who shall remain nameless. In the course of this explanation it became clear that the writer had an overriding agenda, and by that I mean an agenda that overrode the story told in the text. It became…
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Church | Discipleship | Evangelism | Testimony | Witnessing
How do we treat testimony and the witness?
by Doris Horton Murdoch John 9:24-25, NASB: So a second time they (Pharisees) called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man [Jesus] is a sinner.” He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know that…
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Church | Discipleship | Evangelism | Testimony | Witnessing
The risks of testifying in one's own congreation
by Doris Horton Murdoch John 8:31-32, NASB: So Jesus was saying to these Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.” Is it culturally risky to share one’s testimony? Is it more…
