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Bounds - Praying Pulpit begets a Praying Pew is a single chapter work on prayer in the pulpit causing prayer in the pew.
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bs53 The Hope of the Christian explains hope in the spiritual life of the Christian, how it relates to salvation.
Topics: What does “hope” mean? | Faith and Hope | How does Hope function in our Lives? | What do we do while we are hoping? | The Relationship between Hoping and the Word of God | The Person of God is our Hope | What is the effect of hoping? | Those without Hope.
From the Tracts: Hope is a state of mind that arises when what is desired is presented as attainable. Hope is the expectation of soon receiving something one wants... But between believing and having salvation actually fulfilled, there exists time, and in this time, we have to hope for the time when God will fulfill it, when He wants to close history... We can say that faith, believing, began with hope within us that we wanted this good thing that God promises to us.
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pc09 Homosexuality is an abomination In this tract examines the Bible view that homosexuality is an abomination. We examine what the Bible really teaches about homosexuality and lesbianism.
Topics: What is a Sodomite? | Is homosexuality a sin and an abomination? Yes. | The Pornography | The Homosexual Character | God's solution.
Excerpt from the Tract: The concept came to have the idea of a person rejected from society because of their perverse and vile habits, and these habits were involved with their worship of sex. Keil and Delitzsch add the idea that they are a type of person who refuses to remember their sins before God, being arrogant, proud, and rebellious, and therefore bring God's wrath upon them.
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Helping Returning Missionaries are my thoughts and suggestions for missionaries returning on furlough to the States, also those on deputation. Topics: How are we helping returning missionaries? | Let me put forth my mindset. | Coming Home and Culture Shock | The Problems of Cyber Space and Missionaries | Stick to Standard Forms of Communication | You can Help Returning Missionaries by understanding their lifestyle | More Lifestyle Differences | Helping Missionaries with Dental, Eyecare, Medical Care | Churches can help Returning missionaries - Housing | Small stuff | Get expert Advice | My Best Experiences with Visiting a Church as a Missionary Speaker.
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pc06 Suicide or something worse? We look at the causes of depression leading into suicide, and help from God and the Bible.
Excerpts: In Mark 5.2-5 there is a demon possessed person who day and night “cut himself with rocks.” In Matthew 17:15 we also see another demon working which seeks to force the person to commit suicide. The desire to harm yourself is a force of darkness, not from God. But the solution then is only found in God, in His love for you, and in His salvation. We should cast our cares upon Him, “for he careth for you” (1 Peter 5:7). By building a strong relationship with God we can get out of our problems. God will also give us strength and endurance through our problems. The only place of true happiness and joy is when one is in the will of God.
Topics: What causes a person to think about suicide? | What is depression? | Who is the King and Owner of your Life? | What is suicide? | How do I avoid ideas of suicide?
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Dagg Manual of Theology (and links to this work in various other formats).
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Problems with Total Depravity or Inability examines the flaws and errors of the Calvinist teaching of Total Depravity (which is really total inability, man is not responsible for his own actions and sins, because he cannot choose sin or obeying God). This is a short article about this point of Calvinism.
The argument of the Calvinists breaks down completely when we examine the Bible and find examples of various individuals that did please God with their lives. Calvinists says that there is nothing at all that any person can do to please God. Yet God views our lives, and in the Bible, certain people did please God like Noah. Maybe the difference was Noah’s life was "better" than everybody's else's wicked lives, but even from that standpoint, God still acted greatly because of Noah's faith and daily relationship with God. When God saves you and your family and kills everybody else on planet earth, that means something.
The bottom line: Calvinism does not take into consideration the places where God looked with approval on various people's lives. Their "system" is fatally flawed, therefore. Good works never save anybody, we can affirm this as true. But the "bottom line" here is that God does approve and disapprove different people's lives. Salvation is only by faith in Jesus Christ the Savior. But what you are depends on what you do. God judges every person, even the elect, and He rewards them as such. Things that God dislikes, God chastises those in hell, for the saved, God causes the elect to lose some of their heavenly rewards for their sins, if not also causing them problems in earth before they die.
Problems with Total Depravity or Inability.
Author Archives: DavidCox
Pastor Cox – the Holy Spirit
Pastor Cox – the Holy Spirit is a single introductory chapter from Pastor David Cox’s book on the Holy Spirit. Continue reading
Total Depravity: 4. Counter Example of Daniel
In this post, we examine the counter example to total depravity as seen in the life of Daniel. Continue reading
Total Depravity: 5. Righteous men delivering their own souls
This post is the “kicker” to the series in that God attributes their deliverance or salvation of their souls to their own righteousness. Continue reading
God as Creator
God as Creator Continue reading
We are not Saved by Baptism
We are not Saved by Baptism is an article looking at salvation in baptism, and outside of baptism. People saying they are saved because of baptism. Continue reading
Is doing good works the same as being righteous?
Is doing good works the same as being righteous? Examines a fine issue in our thinking, is doing good works the same as righteousness? No. Continue reading
Cults: Double Standards and Hypocrisy
Cults: Double Standards and Hypocrisy is a post about how cults have double standards, but the true work of God does not. Continue reading
Cults: Biblical Definition of a Cult
Cults: Biblical Definition of a Cult is a post on some thoughts about identifying what is a cult from what is a good church. Continue reading
What is your Gospel?
In this study, I examine the Calvinist twisting of “the doctrines of Grace” as their principle “gospel” or doctrine, rather than concentrating on the Gospel as given by Jesus and the apostles. In this study I examine the lack of “Grace” (election is what the Calvinist means by grace) in the Gospels and Acts, and I examine each occurrence of the word grace (caris in greek) in both the Gospels and Acts. Continue reading
Good Shepherd Sacrifices
In this article we examine what it means to be a good shepherd like Jesus our Good Shepherd. Here the idea is to be beneficial to the sheep. Continue reading
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