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Biblical Church Leadership VI
This is the final installment of the Biblical Leadership series. If you haven’t read the previous installments please start with the original: Biblical Church Leadership I Objections Considered The initial objection that I have heard from several people with whom I have shared these thoughts is the idea that Timothy and Titus were the pastors…
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Through the Bible: Deuteronomy
This is a continuing series of my reading through the Bible in 2008. I am reading according to a chronological schedule found here: Chronological Bible Schedule. This week I noticed a few things in Deuteronomy that I found interesting and since these posts are just as much for me as they are for anyone else…
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Biblical Church Leadership V
This article is a continutation of my study on Biblical church leadership, if you haven’t started from the beginning I suggest you start there: Biblical Church Leadership I
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Biblical Church Leadership IV
The beginning of this series is found here: Biblical Leadership. Please start there if you haven’t read the previous posts in this series. This post will look into the role of the Deacons.
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Biblical Church Leadership III
Continuing my posts on Biblical Church Leadership let me again warn the new reader that this is a continuation and it is recommended that you begin with the original post to fully understand the content. WARNING: Up to this point most people will probably have been in agreement with the major thrust of this series,…
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Biblical Church Leadership II
This is a continuation of a previous post, if you haven’t read Biblical Church Leadership I suggest you first read it to make sure completely understand the context of this post. Today we will examine the elder.
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Biblical Church Leadership
I have recently started down a road of examining ecclesiology, or how the church is structured. Although I was taught a little about it in Bible College I have been challenged on the Biblical veracity of some of those teaching and so I began to study the concept. I understand that we all come into…
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The Parable of the Soils
I just read a section of a new book, “Organic Church” by Neil Cole, which book has me doing some introspection. He had a very interesting section on the Parable of the Sower, or as some call it “The Parable of the Soils”. I like this second name better as the parable seems to say…
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Ash Wednesday
I completely didn’t realize this is ash Wednesday!!! How could I have not realized that, I guess I am not paying attention. I don’t have anything deep to say about it just that I forgot.
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Pride again rears its head.
Pride The other day, in the middle of a somewhat heated debate via email, I realized another aspect where my pride hiders my ability to follow Christ and for that matter to be a good friend. I was so tied up in the idea of being right and clever that I refused to even consider…