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Some people think that _the_ way to get married is to have a preacher declare you married. That's part of our culture, but it isn't Bible or doctrine or anything like that. If we read in the Old Testament, to get married to a virgin, and Israelite would pay the bride price for virgins. We...

I notice a fairly widespread problem among Christians and others to authoritatively speak out their assumptions and speculations about God as if they were fact. I see people making declarations about what God is like, what God has planned, what God feels, what God thinks, what God has done...

Acts 14:23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. I notice that most church traditions I am familiar with bring in elders from outside the congregation. A committee hires a pastor, for example...

Acts 14:23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. I notice that most church traditions I am familiar with bring in elders from outside the congregation. A committee hires a pastor, for...

I Corinthians 12 mentions the 'word of knowledge' among the gifts of the Spirit? What is this gift? How does it differ from the gift of prophecy? 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another...

1. Actively teach people the word of God about fornication from a very young age (Deuteronomy 31:11-12, I Thessalonians 4:3-7.) 2. Look diligently among us to see if there is a fornicator to keep many from being defiled (Hebrews 11.) 3. Delivering fornicators in the congregation over to...

In pre-tribulational rapture teaching, is Jesus supposed to come as a 'thief in the night' at the rapture, the second coming, or both? I don't see multiple returns of Christ in scripture, so I can't make the distinction since I don't see it in scripture. But what does pre-trib eschatology...

In the Old Testament, if a man wanted to marry a virgin, he had to give her father the bride price for virgins. If a man raped or seduced a virgin and she was betrothed, he was to be executed in the case of rape, and both of them executed in the case of seduction. If she was not betrothed, he...

There was a man in Corinth who had his father's wife. It doesn't say whether his father died and he took her as his own wife, or if his father divorced or abandoned her, or what happened. It doesn't call her his mother, but his father's wife. This was forbidden in the Old Testament. Having...

Back in the 1990's, I came across Ray Comfort's website on the relatively new world wide web. I corresponded with him a bit. He had a book "Hell's Best Kept Secret." Nowaydays, he has quite a media ministry showing his street witnessing, and he works with former teen TV star Kirk Cameron...

'Jesus loves Me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so.' is a children's song. I think that was probably the song I heard most as a very tiny child. Does the Bible ever directly state that Jesus loves everyone, or that Jesus loves all the little children? He wouldn't let the disciples...

I've heard preachers preach on the sin of homosexuality. Some might even say homosexuals are going to Hell, gays are going to Hell, lesbians are going to Hell, etc. When I grew up, the way 'homosexual', 'gay', etc. was used was to refer to people who did 'gay stuff'-- meaning sexual acts. So...

I read a comment on one of the forums here by a single person about doing something really bad, like having sex. It makes sense for a single person to think that. But for married folks, can't it be a sin to not have sex? I Corinthians 7 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due...

The Bible mentions angels food. Try to guess without looking it up. What is it? The answer is the question. I heard that in a Bible study.

Many years ago, I turned on the TV to see an image of Zeus being paraded around at the beginning of the Olympics.

Preaching seems foolish to the world, and the idea that God could save through preaching must seem foolish to some. Paul wrote, in I Corinthians 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe...

In Deuteronomy 18, the LORD said that he would put His words in the prophets mouth. We see countless examples of messages spoken in the first person on behalf of God, sometimes preceded by 'Thus saith the LORD.' Prophecies could be about present, past, or future-- whatever God wanted to say...

Jesus said when you give your alms, do not let your right hand know what your left hand does. The implication is that Christians are to give alms. Some of us don't hear that word much-- alms. But back then, there were beggars asking for money. Peter had no silver or gold with him in the...

1Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1Co 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: I know of no scripture that says that believing Jesus...

What Did Jesus Want Preached and Done God chose Abraham and the people of Israel as His inheritance. God promised Abraham that all the kindreds of the world would be blessed in him. He gave him a promise about his Seed, which refers to Christ. In the Psalms, God tells the Messiah to ask and...