By Donald F. Ames Someone once said that the sad thing about being a parent is that by the time you finally got some experience, no one wanted to listen to your advice. I suppose all of us, as parents, have made our share of mistakes in the process of rearing our children, and have probably …
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Sometimes Sin’s Consequences Don’t Fade With Time
By Michael L. Dollose When Adam and Eve transgressed God’s law, sin entered the world. That sin immediately separated them from God. They were spiritually dead. That was the first, and by far the greatest of the consequences of their sin. They were also driven from the garden of Eden and barred from re-entering so that …
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Obedience: “Because Of,” Or “In Order To”?
By Larry Ray Hafley (1) The Alien Sinner. Baptists and others have argued for “lo, these many years” that, “We do not work (obey) to be saved, but because we are saved. ” Obviously, this cannot apply to the alien sinner. He has to obey in order to be saved. “Not every one that saith unto …
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Fall Down Jericho
By Keith Hamilton As Israel passed into the land of Canaan (promised land) they came to the city of Jericho. The people there had inhabited and possessed a land that had been promised to Israel for a possession. If they were allowed to remain, their idolatrous and unrighteous life styles would have a damaging effect upon …