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  1. NewCreation435

    canceling New Years services

    I have thought about it just to experience the difference. There is a Lutheran church about 3.5 miles from us. I actually spoke at the Lutheran church once when I was a chaplain. I was involved in a ministerial alliance group where we met on Thursdays at different pastors churches and often...
  2. NewCreation435

    canceling New Years services

    If a vote was taken by leadership then I am unaware of it. I still want to go to church that Sunday, but not sure where I would go
  3. NewCreation435

    What Bible do you use and why?

    I use NASV most of the time. I bought one for myself back in 1984 and have continued to use it over the last 33 years. Every once in a while I will look at the NIV.
  4. NewCreation435

    Who is the Greatest

    I am being critical of him. Though he is probably not even alive now. He was old back then and it has been 25 years since then. What I have always heard taught in the Baptist churches I attend is that deacons are servants of God and the church. But, what the Bible says and reality are often...
  5. NewCreation435

    Who is the Greatest

    Every ordaination service I have ever heard in a Baptist church was about being a servant first. the problem isn't that Baptist deacons are a member of a governing board. The problem is that a worldly mentality has crept into the church and that is what it has become. So, the position...
  6. NewCreation435

    Who is the Greatest

    He was thinking of himself as on a board of trustees. They very much ran the church from a business perspective. The other church I was in when I was ordained as a deacon had a deacon family ministry plan and had members assigned to a deacon who would minister to them and help them in times of...
  7. NewCreation435

    canceling New Years services

    I have expressed my unhappiness to church leadership about this. Not that they will listen to me, but I shared my thought to them
  8. NewCreation435

    Who is the Greatest

    Years ago, when I worked in a church in Petersburg, Virginia, a deacon came up to me and showed me a chart of the leadership of the church. He had the deacons above everyone else. He was trying to tell me that this was his understanding of church leadership that he was in charge. I replied...
  9. NewCreation435

    canceling New Years services

    When I was preaching on Sundays I would preach whether I was sick or well. I remember one lady going to get a glass of water and gave it to me while I was speaking she could tell I was not feeling well. We didn't have but about 50 attenders and there wasn't anyone else who could speak on short...
  10. NewCreation435

    canceling New Years services

    The church doesn't have a traditional Sunday School hour, but has small groups that meet during the week. The thing is, that the small groups all discuss the pastor's sermon and if there is no sermon then they probably won't meet either. The group I attend isn't meeting again until January 10...
  11. NewCreation435

    canceling New Years services

    The weekend of New Years the church I attend decided to cancel Sunday services for that weekend. When I asked why they said they wanted to give the hundreds of volunteers who help out a break to spend time with their families. I think this is a horrible decision and has upset me. I wonder...
  12. NewCreation435

    We were dead in transgressions and sins

    I doubt that given what they believe about the Lord's Supper :=D:
  13. NewCreation435

    John 15:1-6

    I don't remember the exact verse, but somewhere it says that it is impossible to please God without faith.
  14. NewCreation435

    John 15:1-6

    John 15:1-6, NIV "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prune so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as...
  15. NewCreation435

    Rapture or something else

    why would it be considered heretical?
  16. NewCreation435

    Rapture or something else

    I Thessalonians 4:16-18 says 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them...
  17. NewCreation435

    We were dead in transgressions and sins

    Colossians 2:13-15 says 13 "When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to...
  18. NewCreation435

    5 prayers in the Bible

    This article was written five years ago but is still good. it talks about 5 prayers that teach us how to talk to God. I would add these comments in Colossians 1:9-12 where Paul tells the Colossian church what he is praying for them 9 "For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have...
  19. NewCreation435

    Whats the weather like where you live? (part 3)

    We are suppose to get an inch of rain today and temps in the 50's
  20. NewCreation435

    the buzz about alcohol

    I remember in college a lot of the guys in my dorm house drank. Then the drinking age was 19 and then it changed during college to 21. During finals week the hallway would be trashed with pizza boxes and beer cans. I came back from the library one day and found a keg in the shower. I didn't...
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