Date registered: January 9, 2014
Feb 13
Is there a case of “re-baptizing” in the New Testament? In other words, is there a case where a person was taught wrong, baptized, then, taught right and baptized a second time? There are some who might even laugh at such questions, yet, the very idea of baptizing a person a second time is scorned …
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Feb 06
First, on the mind of a student of the New Testament and the subject of baptism should be that of John, the first person found to be baptizing. The subject in this series of articles is that “taught wrong, baptize biblically.” John and some who came to him to be baptized will serve us well …
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Jan 30
In the early years as men were “searching for the ancient order of things” questions came up, articles were written, sermons were preached, and debates were conducted, and even division resulted over a number of subjects. One subject was that of baptism! As truth was learned on one subject, it was put into practice, but …
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Jan 23
The question has been and still is being raised, even among members of the churches of Christ, is baptism necessary to salvation? Yet, through the years preachers in the churches of Christ have debated this subject hundreds of times; while affirming that baptism is necessary unto remission of sins. It may also be said, that …
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Jan 16
There is a practice among us to quote the early preachers (1800 – 1900), those who were “searching for the ancient order of things,” and to use them as authority. As one who teaches, “The history of the churches of Christ in America” (Having changed the term by which his period is identified because of …
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Jan 09
Luke wrote of the church in Troas: “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight” (Acts 20:7). The events of the day were both normal and unusual, as in regard to …
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Jan 01
Many times we start talking about doing something and before we know it, we have talked so much and the subject has become so large, we have long left the original subject and have no idea what we started talking about. As a small congregation, we may not be able to do large things, but …
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Dec 26
We are not there yet, but we sure are approaching it and it is a good time to look both back and forward. There are at least two reasons for looking in both directions: 1) to see the blessing of the past year and to see the shortcomings; and 2) to correct and do better …
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Dec 19
Life in general, life lived through the years, and life lived daily, sometimes has bad events that must be faced. Yet, these bad events may be used for good or bad, and this depends on our character! There is nothing new about this; bad times are common to all of us. Do they make or …
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Dec 12
Have you ever thought there is one God, one Christ, one Holy Spirit, one Bible and one hope, but the same folks who will agree with these five great truths; stop and balk like old Charley’s mule when someone says: there is one faith, one church, and one baptism! Just what is it that happened …
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