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What Must All Christians Believe? Part II
Last week I introduced the term “ant language”. If you accept my premise and explanation it will allow you to identify and faithfully...
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Could Many of Our Theological Differences Simply Be “Ant Language” Part I
“When two denominations, or theologians who love God deeply and both have a high view of scripture, disagree on a doctrinal issue, the...
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Mar 177 min read
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How Much Bad Theology Can You Believe And Still Be Saved?
Forty years ago as a brand new follower of Jesus I attended a two day conference in the Super Dome in New Orleans entitled World...
clareword
Mar 103 min read
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Is It Wrong to Have Sex Before Marriage?
As an Elder I was co-leading a new members class at my Church last month when I was asked, "Where in the Bible does it say sex before...
clareword
Mar 35 min read
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The Economics Of Church Planting In The U.S.
I don’t know if you’ve ever thought about the reasons for the disconnect between how churches were planted in the New Testament and how...
clareword
Feb 244 min read
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Christian Business Reimagined
The term Christian Business is odd. Can businesses actually be "Christian?" Obviously not. However businesses can be run using many...
clareword
Feb 174 min read
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U.S. AID: What Would Jesus Do?
Every day for the last week there’s another story about Trump and Elon Musk dismantling U.S. AID, the 40 billion dollar agency tasked...
clareword
Feb 104 min read
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Holy Bravery, How Christian Men Act Like Men.
I ran across this blog on the Desiring God website. Men, how do we obey the command to “be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like...
clareword
Feb 39 min read
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California Wildfires: Moral, or Natural Evil?
Literally since Adam and Eve, humans have been trying to figure out who to blame for one problem, or another in their life, or the world....
clareword
Jan 273 min read
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