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    What Religion Was Saint Augustine?

    A noted (but not great) Manichean philosopher who was thoroughly in the grip of sexual sin, Augustine was forced to convert to Catholicism under threat of the death penalty. He regarded Christianity as an inferior religion that needed to be blended with pagan religions to form a new and better...
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    The History of Saint Augustine

    Folks, I have known for decades that Saint Augustine's conversion to Catholicism (he never converted to Christianity) was fake. But I hadn't known that he said so himself. This Christian site explains from Augustine's own words that he never believed that he was converting to Catholicism...
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    REALLY Bizarre Question?

    Brethren, this just came up, and we could be on to something. Why did Jack Hyles succeed? Please leave out the idealism (Anything good about Jack Hyles is evil, even if true. Anything bad about Jack Hyles is good, even if false) and answer the question. Why did Jack Hyles succeed?
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    The History of Unconditional Election

    During the third century AD, Mani announced that a gigantic angel had given him a new religion. The religion taught that Christianity and other religions were false, but by combining that best of all of them, you could get a new and better religion. Part of Mani's new religion was unconditional...
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    The Blessings of Romans 2:1

    Romans 2:1 is easily the most-hated verse in this entire forum, so I want to show some blessings from it. The most obvious is that it tells us that scorners are describing themselves, not the people they are attacking. When several members broke off, blaming Ransom for his hateful posts, I was...
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    We Did It!

    Hoover and I walk over 3 miles to the lake and back every morning. This week we passed the 1,500 mile mark. You're all invited to see the tropical paradise where we live. https://www.facebook.com/vincent.massi.1
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    You Might Have a Medium-Sized Church if...

    People like Twisted keep pointing out that you are no longer a small church. Believe it or not, Folks, after the initial humor, I have some real stuff.
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    When We Fail

    I recently posted about a woman in our church trying to illegally seize her baby during a church service. After a judge removed ALL her custody and visitation rights, she began posting pictures of herself with the baby on Facebook, where she explains the principles of successful love. With...
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    Interesting Church Service

    Had an interesting day at church today. A couple are going through an ugly divorce. During the service, the wife came in and snatched their baby, whom the father has legal custody of. Big deal outside. I wouldn't let go of the baby's arm and kept asking people with cell phones (who were filming...
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    Abandon Ship!

    When and how do you get out of your church? "When God tells you to," someone replies, but he can quote no Scripture to back that statement. Although I'll be using the story of Paul's shipwreck from the Book of Acts as GUIDELINES, all comments, warnings, suggestions, etc., that will help...
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    Shut down HAC?

    Change its name to Trump University
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    Homosexual fight

    For about a week now, Bob Gray has been covering some sort of conflict between himself and Steve Anderson. There is a belief that the homosexuals condemned by Paul are temple prostitutes, and that the Biblical condemnations of homosexuality apply only to these prostitutes. Somebody in Gray's...
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    Traditors, Commies, and HACkers

    We learned about the Traditors in Church History class. Around 304 AD, the Romans demanded that Christian leaders surrender Scriptures to be burned. They also had to turn in the names of Christians. And most of them did. A few decades later, with many of the Traditors forgiven and restored...
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    Understanding a False Rumor

    At least this one is harmless. Robby the Robot became a science fiction legend in the 1956 film, Forbidden Planet. He's so popular with science fiction fans that he has appeared in a variety of films and TV shows. And someone thought they saw him in the background of Watto's junk shop in the...
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    A Little Humor, Folks

    I'm ahead of the curve. I've been boycotting Budweiser since 1970.
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    Pilgrim`s Regress by C.S.Lewis

    I read it about 30 years ago, but it went something like this. John, an unsaved Anglican, dreads and fears God but is forced to love Him. On his walk to the heavenly isle, he encounters another traveler, named "Virtue." Virtue is as sincere and honest as a man can get. He condemns all man-made...
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    Thank you, Dr. Vineyard

    Praise the Lord for 22 kids in children's church today! And another Praise: I was taught by Jim Vineyard that the bus captain is completely responsible for the safety of the kids (who often don't take time to think). When closing a van door, I always look at the door to make sure that all kids...
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    Bob Gray Blog

    Bob Gray?s Blog  January 11, 2017 Let me share something that burdened Dr. Hyles. Although he trusted the leaders of his schools, I heard him say on more than one occasion that it concerned him how many who worked in the schools tried to control the students by making up new rules. He had no...
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    Whose Side Were They On?

    When the controversy between modernists and Christians produced the fundamentalist movement, many Christians chose to stay in their compromise denominations and try to be a good influence. Both Charles Spurgeon and C.S.Lewis did this. However, this eventually started the "Evangelical" movement...
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    What Did He Call Me?

    In the late 1970?s, Bob Jones Jr. started pushing "Secondary Separation," commanding God's people to separate from born-again Christians who weren't separated from compromise denominations. And Jones announced that if you would not obey this unscriptural command, you were not a fundamentalist...
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