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O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge," for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.- 1 Timothy 6:20-21I am amazed at how Paul begins these last few lines of his letter to Timothy with the words of a father pleading with his son, "O Timothy." There seems to be such urgency in his writing to Timothy. In fact, in the last ch...

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.- Hebrews 12:4For it, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.- 2 Peter 2:20I have often watched people whom I knew who were committed disciples of Jesus begin to drift from the things...

I have been reading a book by Richard Cherok entitled, Debating For God, which covers the life of Alexander Campbell’s defense of Christianity during the 19th century against various attackers but the most famous being Robert Owen, the man who launched the socialist revolution in England that spread to become modern-day Europe and communism in general. Campbell was a master debater. To use a phrase familiar to Southerners, he took Owen t...

Where were you on December 31, 1999? I remember where I was. I was on my face at Pavilion Ministries in Columbia, South Carolina. We rang in the new milliniuem by seeking God in prayer and praise. What a memory that is for me. I remember we were praying for the nations when the new year rang in. There had been fear of Y2K and all the now bogus news that we had about that day but we rang in 2000 with praise to Jesus for all that He had done ...

My boys make me feel like a king. In my boy's eyes I am the following:StrongestHandsomeIntelligentCan fix just about anythingHave the best storiesHardest worker everAlways reading my BibleTells the best jokesIn the eyes of my boys I can do no wrong. How I wish all that true. I don't want to paint a picture of perfection to my boys since I know that I am not so I try to tell them often that I am a sinner and I need a Savior and have found one in...

One of the problems that I have with the teaching on eternal security or the perseverance of the saints is that it seems that the teaching wants to remove Jesus from the equation. It seems that those who want to defend unconditional eternal security seem to want to make salvation something that is simply given to us by God apart from being in Christ. In fact, being in Christ or remaining in Christ doesn't seem to be the real issue but rather it...