“If you divorce and remarry you will surely go to hell.” “God hates you for divorcing your wife” “If your marriage breaks down you no longer have a calling from God” This list can be extended for a considerable length and I can vouchsafe that lots of stronger invectives have Continue Reading
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The unspeakable gift of God, and our “tithing”
”Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!” On the issue of tithing in the Church of Christ One of the recurring themes in almost every Church assembly is the matter of finances. Rare is the Church that does not now and then find that the commitments of the organisation outrun the Continue Reading
Men in action
”How Should We then Live?” First: the matter penned down How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! Those more than well-known words from Psalm 133 form the arrowhead of a quest for some basic life parameters for any group of believers. But especially for Continue Reading
Saved to serve
Saved in order to serve I have recently been aware of a rather faulty teaching within many parts of that which is called Christian Churches. This awareness is by no means new, but came to the fore through a sermon on serving God. It asked the question of people who Continue Reading
With hearing ears they hear not
“With hearing ears they hear not” On of the most perplexing mysteries of this ministry of the word is the frequent reality of “word upon word and precept upon precept” with little to show for it other than more words about words. Although the promise is made by God in Continue Reading
Grace and the gifts of Grace. “Charis and Charisma”
The doctrine about Grace and the Grace of God as it is. ‘The doctrine of grace is sometimes upheld at the cost of Grace itself. ‘ For some time now I have been guided to reread the available literature about some very large events in Church History. I say ’guided’ in a Continue Reading
Have the spiritual gifts come to an end?
The end of spiritual gifts in the Church of Christ Has that really come? Few things excite such overall ’hot under the collar’ discussions as the issue of the Gifts of The Spirit in the Church. It should be noticed at the outset that nothing causes the love of God Continue Reading
The Tongue is a fire
”And the tongue is a fire” A few notes on the issue of the speaking in tongues. It may seem odd to start a discussion about the vexed matter of ’glossolalia’ from the letter of James. But I think that you will see the sense of that when you read Continue Reading
The Christian and His Pride?
The sliding slope A sure sign of the gradual defection from the Word of God and a living faith in God is the vagueness and often deliberate mumbling about all issues relating to the Pride movement and the HBTQ and Transgender issues that have rapidly become a new version of Continue Reading
“The Axe is laid to the root.”
Transformed or conformed. A life and death issue. Do I hear the sound of the axe? Over the years certain impressions grow very slowly. So slowly that one does not really notice them. Then one day something changes the configuration of the thought patterns and the result is a jolt Continue Reading