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How Faithful Is Faithful to Church
What constitutes “faithful to church?” What says Scripture? Hebrews 10:25 clearly states: “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” This verse says that we should never miss. Never? Never. Let’s look at the verse […]
Happy Funeral
We had a wonderful homegoing celebration for Carlos Lalisan today. About 150 attended. Quite a few former Bethel members attended and it was good to see them all. Special music was fantastic: Bethel Christian Academy school choir, my son on the trombone, Renee Prophet solo, church choir sings Psalm 23 from our psalter, and Zion’s […]
Tax Break for Rich
A few days a year are Planet Taxes for me. My world is perforated IRS forms torn out of an exciting page turner. I really don’t want to say much more about that for fear that agents scan blogs for future audit targets. Actually, I’m not afraid of an audit; I’ve been audited. It’s an […]
The Wrath of God
Our church practices a non-age-segregated Sunday School. We start at 9:45am with a song. By the way, I recommend The Trinity Hymnal, Baptist Edition, as the closest hymnal to Scriptural worship as there is. I’ll blog separately again on that sometime. We sing out of that. Then we meet for fifteen minutes in small groups […]
Further Debate Fodder: Revelation 22:18, 19, the Book of Life, and the Holy City
A major argument against eternal security is Revelation 22:18, 19 and Mr. Hafley used this during the debate. It didn’t turn out well for him because the passage doesn’t teach that someone can lose his salvation. Revelation 22:18, 19 reads: “18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of […]
More on the Debate: The Big If
One COC man wrote me to say that Mr. Hafley had good arguments that I avoided by using “original language arguments.” That made me smile. The Bible was witten in Hebrew and Greek. When I made an argument using the original languages, I wasn’t making anything other than a Bible argument. What it says in […]
Perspective
In the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, Solomon illustrates vanity with the rising and setting of the sun. In Lamentations, Jeremiah sees the same event and writes, “Great is thy faithfulness.” They both saw the same scene with two contradictory reactions. One has the horizontal view and the other vertical. When I looked down at Carlos […]
Church Member, Friend, Dies
One of our men died tonight. I was with him, his wife, and son and Jun and Sonia Balatbat in the emergency room. Carlos Lalisan. Carlos and his family came to our church 16 years ago and have been faithful members, all three of his children graduating from Bethel Christian Academy. This last summer, his […]
What Was I Supposed to Do?
It gets to be a little much. You know what a humble Baptist is to a COC member? On his back with a COC shoe on his neck. Humility isn’t timidly admitting that the false prophet is right. I’ve been getting these letters from COC people telling me that it was a different debate than […]
How the Arguments Hashed Out
Here is a chart with the texts of his arguments and then mine. His passages are on the left and mine on the right after the dashes. These are just the arguments and whether they were answered. This does not deal with how poor his arguments were, so poor that they shouldn’t really even be […]
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