Banned from the Church
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 : By Dan Miller
This past Sunday Jeff Stables handed me a Wall Street Journal article entitled, Banned from the Church. The article presented a freakish view into the lives of people who have been disciplined by pastors across the Country in all types of churches. The writer, Alexander Alter, frames the church somewhere between a ravenous monster and an anemic institution trying to scrap together an authoritative stance in the lives its parishners. Frank Turk replies in an effort to create distance between churches that abuse their authority while maintaining the value that expelling people for sinful activity has in the life of a church.
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God’s Justice, Jealousy, and Wrath
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 : By Ken Rutherford
The Doctrine of God: Week 13
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem.
Chapter 12, The Character of God: “Communicable” Attributes (Part 1)
This week we continue to examine the “communicable” attributes of God (those which He has shared in part with us) as we continue to discuss His ‘moral’ attributes as we discuss His Justice, Jealousy, and Wrath.
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Freedom, Part 7
Sunday, January 6th, 2008 : By Dan Miller
The Bible says that it is for freedom Christ has set us free (v.1). In our last teaching time we saw the game-plan (Gal. 6:1-2) to deal with people who call themselves followers of Christ (“Christians”) yet are displaying the works of the flesh (5:19-21). Today, we will look at three things that hold us back from helping people who are spiritually unhealthy and some specific signs to look for when a person has been restored to spiritual health again.
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