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| – Church Life Issues – THE ADORATION OF GOD IS THE ESSENTIAL CENTREPIECE OF CHURCH LIFE ♥ TO ALLOW THE MIND OF THE LORD TO RULE WITHIN ITS FELLOWSHIP  |
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• The Christian Church: The New Testament perspective as a corrective to common misrepresentations today. | |||
| • The Continuity of Authentic Christianity: How do we know? Apostolic succession, or true doctrine, or neither? | ||||
| • The Mystery of the Kingdom: The distinction between the presence and the appearance of God's Kingdom. | ||||
| • The 'Body of Christ': This metaphor of the Church is highly significant and unique to the apostle Paul's letters. | ||||
| • Christian Baptism: a very brief overview of the subject. | ||||
| ♥ The Sign of Identity!: The essential central factor of Christian identity. | ||||
| • Most Sacred Celebration: 'Access Reserved' often stands at the doors to the Lord's Supper. — Is this right? | ||||
| • Symbols that Strengthen: Three symbols with profound significance for the meaning of our Christianity. | ||||
| ♥ The Attitude of God: His example awaiting our application today! |  |
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| • Elect in Christ: God's pre-creation elect of the believer and its implications, put briefly. | ||||
| • Christian Discipline: The healing discipline within the Church family. What? Why? When? How? | ||||
| ♥ Her Heart's Unknowing: An intense and intuitive poetic expression of the indescribable union. | ||||
| • Church Meeting Dynamics: How should our services be? Or is there no 'right' liturgy? | ||||
| • Church Leadership: The pastoral office is not a chaplaincy! | ||||
| • The Structure of Church Ministry: Ministry Financing – Church Organization – Leadership Structure? | ||||
| • The Christian Pilgrimage: A growing chronology of the Christian journey through history. (Always unfinished). | ||||
| • A short poem of the Cry of God among His people: They Are Lost; Lord – Hear Them! | ||||
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| • The Bible | A detailed chronology of the English translation of the Holy Bible: from 735 AD to 2001 AD. |  |
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• Understanding the Bible: How to understand this Book of books, as it was meant to be understood! | |||
| • Misused Scriptures: Bible verses abused – sincerely, or otherwise. | ||||
| • Bible Codes?: In irrefutable rebuttal of a modern deception! | ||||
| • Biased Translation:A sampling of bias in the English translation of our Bible. | ||||
| • Falsification of Bible Texts: Even our Bible's oldest manuscripts show the scars of human failure. | ||||
| • The 'Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research' exposed!: Exposé of a disturbingly perverse attempt in Bivin and Blizzard's book, 'Difficult Words of Jesus', to discredit the New Testament by pretended scholarship.* (Zipped PDF file of 25 page pre-publication copy). | ||||
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| Remember: | Jesus confronted the religious leaders of His time with – "have you not read what God spoke to you" (Matt.22:31). | |||
| — concerning the relevance of Holy Scripture to all subsequent generations — | ||||
| Evolution of Doctrine | Newness in knowing His Word. Should doctrine really develop? | |||
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Casting out Demons | What, and how, with practical guidance: Akathartos Pneuma – Yes? / No? – Why? | ||
| The Trinity of God | A deeper view of the God who loves you! | God Loves All | ||
| Bizarre Behaviour | Unusual phenomena sometimes associated with Christian ministry. | DO YOU? | ||
| Encouragements | Short words of spiritual encouragement on various issues. | Even Your Enemies? | ||
| Head Covering | Doesn't it just reflect female subservience in antiquity? Or what? | Love Means: Committed To Their Welfare Whether They Like It Or Not! |
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| Predestination | A very short biblical definition. | |||
| Reconciliation | The restoration of fellowship between God and humanity. | |||
| Laughter? | Hilarity in church services? – unruly behaviour? Or worse? | |||
| Intrusion! | Corruption of Christ's Church through that which seems good and right in each time and place. | |||
| Miracles | Where are they, today? | |||
| Giving | Tithes, offerings – the 'yes' and 'no' of Christian giving. | |||
| Hell | The basics, without myth and speculation. | |||
| :: MINISTRY IN ALL FORMS IS AN OUTGROWTH OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF GOD'S PEOPLE AS CHRIST'S CONGREGATION, HIS BODY, AS REPRESENTED IN ITS LOCAL INSTANCE :: :: THEREFORE NO INDIVIDUAL MINISTRY CAN EVER BE INDEPENDENT OF THE LOCAL FELLOWSHIP OF GOD'S PEOPLE :: |
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 A Church Behaviours Menu |
Chronologies of strange Church behaviour (the Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, etc.). | |||
| John Philip – A Political Missionary | A South African Missionary of the London Missionary Society. | |||
| The 2nd Temptation Is Among Us | The Words of Christ's Second Temptation are among us today! | |||
| The Serpent's Dual Deception | A coordinated double-deception to disable the confidence of God's people in Holy Scripture. | |||
| Your Church's Raison D'être? | Do Christian denominations have a right to exist, or should we leave them? If not, what next? | |||
| Common 'Christian' Fallacies | A very brief correction of many sincerely held myths among many Christians. | NEED DIRECTION? ⇐  READ THESE, THINK, CHECK YOUR BIBLE |
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| Augustine's Corruptions | A disturbing corruption of Christianity which still stains church life today. | |||
| Calvinism's Corruptions | A legacy that still misleads the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ today. | |||
| The Serpent's Subtlety | The half-truth methodology of the enemy of God. | |||
| Animism in the Church | Animism in Christ's Church today! | |||
| Why Am I Not Healed? | If God heals and I believe, why does He not heal me? | |||
| TODAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY |
Slavery in Christianity | An issue of social morality that reflects the state of the Church at that time. | ||
| Pageantry in Worship | Flag-waving and banners in church worship which have become in-vogue among some. | |||
| Ordination of Women | Liberals say yes; conservatives say no. What does the Bible really say? | |||
| Apostolic Succession | Does it exist? What does the Bible say? | |||
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The Evangelical Lie |
An exposé of Christian misrepresentation concerning the State of Israel and Christ's return! | ||
| Remnant Mentality | A misunderstanding which negates the liberty of Christ's Church. | |||
| Church Ordination | The religious event of appointing to leadership office. | |||
| The Hagee Heresy | His crude zionism is a serious violation of God's impartial love for all; apart from his twisting of the Word of God! | |||
| Law versus Grace | Conflicting, or combined, or neither? Remember, the New Covenant is not new because the Old is old! | |||
| The Israel Heresy |
The insidious error that has enchanted many evangelicals today and is making a fool of many of God's people. | |||
| A Seduced Bride | A spiritual flirtation that has ruined many lives and ravaged Christianity's historical character. | |||
| The Cell-Church | Ralph Neighbour's erroneous diagnosis of Church life and his therefore misleading remedy. | |||
| The Sabbath | Why? When? How? And much misrepresented, for It was never meant to be a religious day! | |||
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| Jesus warned: 'Truly I tell you, in that you did it to one of the least important of these My brothers, you did it to Me' (Matt.25:40, 45) | ||||
| And in correction of John Hagee's misrepresentation, these "brothers" have no racial identity (they are not Jewish), for as Jesus had previously explained, not even His own mother qualified as family unless she lived in obedience to God's revelation in Him! | Matthew 12:48-50. Hallelujah! |
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— BEWARE OF THOSE WHO FARM THE PEOPLE OF GOD! — |
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