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Today's Church
Contributed by Bob Faulkner on Sep 8, 2015 (message contributor)
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1. Issues With Rome
Contributed on Sep 21, 2015
Here are some separate topics that can be included in one message about Romanism, and how it is quite different from Biblical Christianity. Celibacy, Mary, Inquisition and more.
Biblical vs Romanist Approaches to Celibacy (Presentation given at annual AFEC conference) When I was first assigned this topic, several questions occurred to me, the answers to which form the heart of the following message. I trust they are your questions too. Question ONE: What is celibacy, ...read more
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2. The Scriptures In Today's Church
Contributed on Sep 8, 2015
Is the Bible still being laid as the foundation-word for the church, or is something else supplanting it? Individual messages addressing this critical question.
1. Of Christian Foundations Has the foundation for the Christian faith been laid once for all, or do we look for new foundations to be poured in every generation? To ask such a thing is to answer it. The idea of digging up the old foundation of a building every forty years, so as to lay a new one ...read more
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3. The Spirit And Today's Changing Leadership
Contributed on Sep 9, 2015
There is more and more talk about the Spirit in our day, and a shifting of emphasis upon what makes a spiritual leader.
THE SPIRIT 7. Does God Speak Today? If I told you that God speaks to me, would you be offended, amused, intrigued? Well, does not the Scripture teach that His Spirit is to live in us? Then should it not be assumed that He will speak? You say, He already spoke, through the Bible. Yes, He did, ...read more
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4. Strange Things We Hear In The Church Today
Contributed on Sep 10, 2015
The claim to apostleship, "rhema" words, storming Hell, your destiny, revealing of the Sons of God, dominion, the 7 mountains... and more
THE STRANGE THINGS WE HEAR 15. "Apostolic" Misinterpretations I believe the Lord has made it clear to me often that I am never to come against something He may be doing. That's pretty dangerous. So my task today is to work under the umbrella of Ephesus, that exposed people who said they were ...read more
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5. Things They're Doing In Church Today
Contributed on Sep 11, 2015
Jeans, falling down, gifts, music. The modern church does look a little different, you have to admit
THINGS THEY'RE DOING IN CHURCH TODAY 27. Gifts Or No Gifts? Whether there are gifts of the Spirit in the church today is not decided by what men believe about the subject, but the fact remains that there is a wide variety of opinions about it. Among the two billion persons calling themselves ...read more
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6. Are We In Revival?
Contributed on Sep 13, 2015
Many claim we are experiencing revival today, yet so much of the church seems to be in retreat. Where is the gut-wrenching repentance of former revivals? Where is the confession of sins by entire church populations? This all happened when revival came...
ARE WE IN REVIVAL? 33. What Does Bible Revival Look Like ? In the 600's BC, in a day when Babylon threatened to devour the once godly kingdom of Judah and the labors of the Patriarchs, the Conquerors, the Kings and Priests of many hundreds of years, Habakkuk the prophet cries out to God, ...read more
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7. The Cry For Liberty
Contributed on Sep 14, 2015
Short messages having to do with freedom in Christ, and how that freedom is being interpreted today.
THE CRY FOR LIBERTY 38. The Monster of the Old Testament One can see just how far liberty can be taken when one views the wild rantings of “liberal” scholarship. They are not a new phenomenon. We have forever had unbelief among us. But it is always fascinating to see just how far ...read more
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8. Women In Ministry Today
Contributed on Sep 17, 2015
Oh how things have changed. Oh how far we have veered off course. The church has copied the world's program for women and is not the better for it.
ABOUT WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP 42. Rise Up, Men of God! I’m a Man and happy about it. “Proud” is not a politically acceptable word in the church, so I will stay with “happy.” Or satisfied. Content. Fulfilled. In other words, there’s absolutely nothing wrong ...read more