The Pastor's Dilemma - Weighing Between Grace & No Grace
I recall, from my youth, using a platform trip scale, similar to modern weight scales found in doctor’s offices, where you slide a weight along a rail until the trip lever raises…
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The Vortex of Voices
Elder J.L. Groce 5/04/12 “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.” 1 Cor. 14:10 Picture, if you will, the…
The Preacher & What Determines His Ministry
In reality every preacher has several facets that ultimately determines the make up of his ministry....several of these determiners are: I. HIS THOUGHTS To me the thinking process of man is an…
The Cuckoo Syndrome
There is a bird, the cuckoo, who is a common in England and many other parts of the world. The first sign of spring is that bird’s call. The cuckoo never builds…
Ben, Look Again.... Could it be.... A Setting Sun?
I am made to wonder, after reading several books on the founding fathers and their original feelings and thoughts concerning the Constitution, if those men would be both amazed and indignant about…
Life Changes, Not Land Captured
Vietnam was a war like no other war that American forces had ever been engaged in previously. Unlike World War I or World War II where geographical gains (or loses) were determinate…
Standards Are a Root, Not a Leaf
“Standards” are a prescribed order of action or conduct. In the biblical sense “holiness standards” are God’s prescribed order of conduct for His people. Standards prescribe what one wears externally, but its…
The Fight Over The Origin Of Holiness Standards Or The Spiritual Monkey Trial
It was officially known as Scopes v. State, but history remembers it as The Scopes Monkey Trial. For two weeks in the summer of 1925, in a crowded courtroom in little Dayton…
A Voice not a Vote!
God’s church was meant to function with a voice not a vote. It is a “voice crying in the wilderness” and not a “consensus of the multitude” that progresses the church of…
Uniting Requires Untying
Regardless of what some people may hope for or advocate, in this life anyway, there will and can be no perfect agreement of men in certain vital areas. No matter how loud…
Little Foxes - Large Failures
“It’s the little foxes that spoil the vine.” On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, an SST Concorde, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on…
The Ocular Has Overtaken the Oral
Few today can recall the “Fireside Chats,” as they were fondly called, between then president Franklin Roosevelt and the American public. During the tremulous times of a second world war and a…