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Transition

I’m in the process of transitioning this site over to a new host.  The site should pretty much look the same, but the new host gives me more powerful blogging options.  You can now view this site @:  www.hereitcconfessions.my-wp.com.
I’ve recently added two more posts entitled:

The Prosperity Gospel Revisited (Part 1)
The Kingdom Has Come (Part 1)

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I used to be pretty anti-prosperity Gospel.  I never subscribed in a “poverty Gospel either,” but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the subject after reading the following (found here):
Anyone who knows me, knows of my disdain for the prosperity gospel. The people who preach this gospel are wolves in sheep’s clothing.  Watch this video [...]

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The other day as I was sitting in “church,” the thought came to me, “this just isn’t practical.” The message was on spending time with God early, every morning. The pastor talked about how important and vital to life this discipline was in becoming more than an overcomer.  But instead of feeling motivated to go [...]

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Tolerance is not approval.  What the world today is looking for is approval, not tolerance.  They have confused the two.
Tolerance is not saying that what someone does is ok, because some things just aren’t ok.  Tolerance is not saying that someone is right, because they could be wrong.  Tolerance is not saying that truth is relative, because [...]

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Turn the Light On

Imagine, if you will, going into a dark room and trying to gather up all of the darkness and push it out the door. Would you start in the darkest corner, and try to sweep all of the darkness out?  Or get a net and try to catch it all?  The images create a pretty [...]

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It’s true!  I don’t believe they exist.  There is no such thing as someone who doesn’t believe in a sovereign god.  I don’t care how much evidence you want to provide trying to validate their existence – I cannot believe that any person is a true atheist. 
Atheists do not exist.  They’re not real.  If there [...]

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Do Not Forbid . . .

There seems to be a lot of judgment within the body of Christ between different denominations, churches and even within churches themselves.  The kind of judgment I am referring to here is judgment based upon differences of opinion.  Where someone states that someone cannot be a Christian or follower of Christ for differences of opinion, differing [...]

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After reading a book on church discipline where the author suggested that there were certain sins that were considered insufferable, I began wondering if this was true.  Are there certain sins that if committed can disqualify someone from church leadership or membership indefinitely?  More accurately stated – forever?
I know that there are certain qualifications for [...]

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Get A Job!

My mom and I have this ongoing debate about my responsibility to provide for my family.
She says: “the Bible says that if you don’t have a job you don’t eat!”
But I respond:  “I thought it says if you don’t work you don’t eat?”
In America we think of work as getting a job. 
But God’s command is to [...]

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In CT there is an article entitled “Jesus and the Sinner’s Prayer,” questioning the current popular view of how to obtain salvation.  The sinner’s prayer.  The article notes that Jesus never invites or instructs someone to pray a “sinner’s prayer” or “invite Him into their hearts.”  In fact in 2 different instances Jesus says to obey [...]

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