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Jan 10
AM I READY FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH?
Local congregations are made up of Christians! Christians are people who have obeyed the gospel of Christ! In simple terms, they are those who have obeyed the gospel of Christ, which means: that one has understood the gospel enough to believe it (Mark 16:16); has believed it enough to change his mind about the life …
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Jan 03
A NEW YEAR’S LOOK AT THE BARNES CHURCH OF CHRIST
The New Year 2015 has arrived; it gives us the opportunity to look backward, or to look forward. As one who serves as an elder of this congregation, I prefer to look forward. Yet, the New Year does not stand alone disconnected from the year just past, no, it stands upon it. What we plan …
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Dec 27
JESUS (4)
His mission was to change the world by changing the mind of mankind. He desired to conquer the world with no bloodshed, but his own! How different from all those before him and all those to follow him, who desired to conquer the world. His greatest teaching was done from the side of a mountain, …
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Dec 20
JESUS (3)
As a historical character Jesus stands alone, even though his life was but thirty-three and a half years. His work was only three and a half years, yet he changed the world! His life was viewed so important to the world, that the way we refer to time was changed, in the year of our …
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Dec 13
JESUS (2)
When the subject is “Jesus of Nazareth” many things may be written and said, but the key word is “savior.” Before his birth “the angel of the Lord” appeared to Joseph and said to him: “fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy …
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Dec 06
JESUS (1)
What do you know about Jesus? Would it surprise you to read, that he is the most famous person to have ever lived? Then, how about these thoughts: that more songs have been written about him than any other; that more paintings of him, as mankind portrays him to look, have been made of him …
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Nov 29
“God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform”
It was forty-eight years ago that I first heard of Jude chapter two. It was in a Bible class in the Linda church of Christ in Marysville, CA. The preacher/teacher was Clint Lovelady and someone had asked him where something was in the Bible. He answered, “It is in Jude chapter two.” Being a very …
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Nov 22
SIT STILL, GOD WILL DO IT FOR YOU
The religion of today and for years past is expressed in the title of this article: “Sit still, God will do it for you.” Truth is, God will not do it for you! God loves you and he has done for all of us what we could not do for ourselves; and this is evidenced …
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Nov 15
WATCHING THE DALLAS COWBOYS ON SUNDAY
It may be that you have no use for the Dallas Cowboys or football in general; in fact, you may not like sports at all, but whatever it is that you like to do, let us say you are doing it on Sunday morning. It happened to me on Sunday, November 9, 2014. Yes, there …
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Nov 08
TRUTH OR NOTHING (4)
It must be understood that some laws are universal truths. In Genesis God gave the law of kind; in that he said: “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good”(Gen.1:12) …
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