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Don’t Let False Teaching Deceive You!
In his book ‘Be Faithful’ Warren Wiersbe comments that “it is unfortunate today that we not only have ’vain jangling’ (’meaningless talk,’) in teaching and preaching, but also in music. Far too many songs not only teach no doctrine, but m …

The law reveals sin but doesn’t take it away
At the heart of the Jewish Law was the ten commandments. Yet apparently, as dogmatic as these false teachers were, they really didn’t understand God’s law. God’s law is like a medicine prescribed by our doctor. If we use the medicine the way its prescribed, it w …

Can a person be forgiven for murder?
General Oglethorpe once said to John Wesley, “I never forgive and I never forget.” To which Wesley replied, “Then, Sir, I hope you never sin.” (Source unknown). …

Paul’s experience on the Damascus road
Perhaps the famous preacher John Newton explained it best when he said, When I get to heaven I shall see three wonders there. The first wonder will be, to see many people there whom I did not expect to see. The second wonder will be, to miss many people whom I did expect to see; …

Like it or not we are in warfare
It is sometimes helpful to pick out certain verses of a biblical passage which summarize in concise terms what the passage is all about. The phrase that, perhaps, best summarizes this entire letter is “Wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience” (vv. 1 …