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In Mark 8:34-38, Is Jesus Teaching How to be Saved or How to be A Better Christian?
This passage (along with companion texts in Matt 16:24-26; Lk 9:23-26; Jn 12:24-26) is frequently taught today as a post-conversion...

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Does Romans 13 Demand Unlimited Subjection to the Government?
Last year I read an article published in a Mennonite daily devotion ( Beside the Still Waters ) that encouraged practical and passive...

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Does “Simplicity in Christ” (2 Cor 11:3) Refer to a Simple, As In Easy, Gospel?
Did Paul mean that if the gospel isn’t simple then it must be corrupt? Simple as in easy, uncomplicated, basic?

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Attacking Spiritual Warfare by Misusing Scripture Such As, “Touch Not the Lord’s Anointed"
One of a number of tactics that preachers or others often utilize in order to remain above reproof and discipline, is the misapplication...

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The Parable of Two Sons Who Hated Their Father (Luke 15)
In Luke 15 we have a story of two sons, neither of which loved their Father, both rebelling against Him. They hated Him and did not know...

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Does John 15 Teach that Saved People May Not Abide in the Vine, in the Lord Jesus Christ?
In John 15:1-6 the Lord Jesus Christ declares, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me that beareth...

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The Call to Discipleship is a Call to Salvation
When the Scriptures speak of denying self, losing ones life, taking up the cross, forsaking all, and following Christ, such as found in...

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How Did Jesus Evangelize and Did He Invite?
These are two important questions that must be considered, since Jesus is God and He would certainly know best on evangelizing and...

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There are Only Two Classes or Categories of People in God’s Word, Not Three
God’s Word presents only two categories or classes of man, not three as often unscripturally taught. This two-fold-only theme is found...

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There are Only Two Sides and You Have to Choose One - You Can't Straddle Both
The Lord Jesus preached in the Sermon on the Mount: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other;...

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Romans 9, Election, and Calvinism
I find Scripture keeps getting in the way of being a Calvinist, and Rom 9 is one area. If we were supposed to be Calvinists, the Bible...

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Misinterpretation of 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 to Produce the Erroneous Teaching of "Carnal Christianity"
Frequently one hears this passage being misused and misinterpreted as to bring “carnal” into the nature of a saved person and that...

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The Gospel is More than 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, and Repentance is an Important Component of It
Most “evangelical” and “Baptist” churches today either preach no repentance or a false repentance, so a false gospel (2 Cor 11:4; Gal...

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False Labels Followed, to the Tune of the Pied Piper — Labels Misused Towards Professing Believers that Only Apply to False “Believers"
Out of convenience for a system that corrupts salvation and sanctification, labels are applied and used towards professing believers that...

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"Unbelief" is Only a Characteristic of Unsaved People, Not the Saved
The teaching of "unbelief" towards true believers is a fairly common component of certain branches of Christendom, especially those who...

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Losing Salvation is a False Gospel Propagated by False Teachers
Though this teaching may be popular, it is far from the truth of Scripture, and nothing even remotely hints at it. Worst, it‘s a...

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A Critical Analysis of Reg Kelly and His Sermon “Crucified with Christ.”
In times past I met Reg Kelly, who pastors a church in southern Missouri, at a revival conference preached by him. There are a number of things praise worthy in his ministry and preaching that we could list. In particular, we appreciate his stand against the evils of our day without fear of man, his rejection of the man-centeredness that runs rank everywhere and his exposure of modern Bible perversions. We certainly need more of that. Nevertheless, being a pastor and placing

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What is True Biblical Love?
Some time ago someone from the Mennonite evangelical denomination of EBMC or EMC (they were frolicking between the different churches...

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Galatians 5:19-21; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 15:50; Ephesians 5:5-8, and the Flesh
Saved people do not live after the flesh. They did that before they were saved (Rom 6:1-2, 6-22; 8:1-9; Eph 2:1-3). The “old man IS ...

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The Bible Teaches Only One Rest, Not Two, Including in and Especially Matthew 11:28-30
When God saves a sinner, He gives immediate and eternal rest. The sinner turned saint enters into God’s glorious rest. Perfect rest that...

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