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How To Build A Strong Christian Family

How does a parent build a strong Christian family? The church should instruct families how to begin and grow a Godly heritage in each family, but we cannot expect our church to build it for us. It must be done at home. We cannot expect our schools or a sports ...

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Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People?

To say one is “good” is a very subjective statement. Good by whose standards? Good compared to whom? We judge goodness by a standard of living. Those who live right and try to serve God, we consider to be “good people.” Unfortunately, that is not an appropriate standard by which ...

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Wearing the Helmet of Salvation

In Ephesians 6:11-13 the apostle Paul gives us this exhortation: “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness ...

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Women in Church Leadership: Part 2

This article is the follow to my previous article: What Role Should Women Play in Church Leadership? It further examines the convoluted and controversial role of women in pastoral leadership within church. Previously we discussed Rev. Libby Lane, the first woman Anglican bishop within the Church of England. The 20th (and 21st) ...

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The Need For Circumcision

circumcision, circumcision of the heart,

When God entered into covenant with His people Israel, circumcision, the removal of the male foreskin, represented what was fleshly being cut away. The Hebrew word for covenant, in fact, means “to cut.” The physical act of circumcision was to be symbolic of a greater reality for God’s people–that which was ungodly and ...

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