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My Journey Through The Ecclesiastical Maze - written 2008 - 2009

Part 1 - Preface, Coming Into This World, What Does Ecclesiastical Mean?
Part 2 - The Standard Church
Part 3 - The Free Methodist Church - Jesus Meets Us In The Basement 
Part 4 - The Sunday Meeting
Part 5 - Our Youth Group
Part 6 - Coming Of Age
Part 7 - The Gospel To Get
Part 8 - The Sovereignty Of God And They Holy Spirit
Part 9 - The Baptism In The Holy Spirit And Tongues 
Part 10 - The Segregated Church
Part 11 - The Community Of Christ 
Part 12 - Koinonia 
Part 13 - The Horizontal and the Vertical 
Part 14 - Introduction To Cults 
Part 15 - Healing Divides The Maze
Part 16 - The Jesus People Movement  
Part 17 - The Last Big Purchase Of My Life  
Part 18 - Demons Divide The Maze
Part 19 - Introduction To Shepherding 
Part 20 - Some Practicalities Of Shepherding 
Part 21 - Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way
Part 22 - Let's Make A Covenant 
Part 23 - The Christian Conservative Right 
Part 24 - Legalization of Church
Part 25 - I'm All Meetinged Out
Part 26 - Divine Friendships In The Midst Of Disaster  
Part 27 - Super-apostles In The Apostolic Movement  
Part 28 - Distinctives That Divide  
Part 29 - Three Tries At Traditionalism 
Part 30 -  Home Groups
Part 31 - The Fundamental Problem From My Prophetic Perspective  
Part 32 - Jesus Wants His Church Back 
Part 33 - The Birth Of The Church 
Part 34 - Jesus, Head Of His Body 
Part 35 - The Institutionalization Of Relationships  
Part 36 - Functional Relationships 
Part 37 - Three Men On A Relational Journey
Part 38 - Christian Leadership 

Is Tithing For You - written 2008

Part 1 - Our Practice
Part 2 - 10% For God 90% For You
              Giving To Get
              Abraham And Jacob Tithed
Part 3 -  Other Things Existed Before The Law Too
              Do Christians Understand The Law
              Three Tithes
              Where Did The Tithe Go 
Part 4 - God  Was Robbed - Malachi 3:8
              Who Was Robbing God?
              How Was God Being Robbed
              Final Thoughts On Malachi 3:8 
Part 5 - What Does The New Testament Say?
              Jesus And The Pharisees
  
Part 6 -  The Law And Christians
Part 7 - Jesus Comments On The Ten Commandments
              2 Cor. 9:6-7
Part 8 - 1 Cor. 16:2, 2 Cor.8:2-4, The Poor Widow, The Macedonians
Part 9 - The Acts 15 Solution, Intelligent Giving
Part 10 - Who Should We Give To?,  Concluding Thoughts

 

Hermeneutics - The Lost Art     - written 2007

                  The Art of Biblical Interpretation 
                  The Inspiration of Scripture 
                  Biblical Context 
                  Historical Context
                  No Presuppositions 
                  Admit To Your Interpretation 
                  Scripture Interprets Scripture  
                  Importing Scripture Into Scripture 
                  Reading Between The Lines
                  So-called Holy Spirit Interpretation 
                  Allegorizing 
                  Proper Use Of Allegory  
                 The Problem With Word Studies 
                 Verse By Verse Exegesis      
                  Our Personalities
                  Original Languages 
                  Idioms
                  Pet Doctrines
                  The Old Testament Is Our Example
                  Types And Shadows In The Old Testament
            
     The Old Testament Is Prophetic
                 The Fulfillment Of The Law
                  The New Meaning Of The Law
                 The Law Was Nailed To The Cross
                 The Law Is Obsolete 
                 Jesus Obeyed The Law
                 Jesus Redefined The Ten Commandments
                 The Divorce Laws  
                 Law, Grace Or License
                The New Testament View Of Old Testament Prophecy
                God Doesn't Change - His Ways Of Dealing With Man Do
                The Cross
                Culture In Scripture
                Faulty And Flimsy Premises 
                Defining Word By Its Contest
                In Conclusion  

                                                                       

Rethinking The Baptism in the Holy Spirit   - written 1993   
     - approx. 13,100 words.  Somewhere between the
       Pentecostal view and the non Pentecostal view
       is what I see as the Truth about this subject.      

The Galatian Problem - It Is Our Problem Too   written 1993 
    -approx. 16,000 words.  Self reliance, it is still our
      problem today.  

Our One And Only Door Of Faith   written 1994
     -approx. 10,000 words.  There is one way to be saved
       and there is only one way to get unsaved. 

The Trinity  written 1995
     -appox. 17,500 words.  A very uplifting and orthodox
     view of the Trinity.

So You Really Want To Be Organized    written 1993
     approx. 17,000 words.  This is a  humorous attempt 
     to help put organizational skills in a cluttered  life.
     Maybe you will get a few laughs, and maybe pick up
     few good ideas at the same time.

My Story   written 2003
     approx. 6,000 words.  This is the short version of the
     testimony of my life.  

The Indisputable Essence Of The Gospel written 2003- 
approx. 18,300 words -  Learn what the key doctrines of Salvation are - truths you must believe in order to be a Christian  

     Section 1-Introduction
                    -Definitions  
                    -Who Is Jesus?
                    -What About Man?
     Section 2-Law
                    -The Blood Sacrifice That Replaced The Law              
     Section 3-What Happened To Jesus On The Cross
                    -The Resurrection Of Jesus   
     Section 4-Repentance, Our First Response To The Cross
                    -Faith, Our Second Response To the Cross
                    -Receiving The Holy Spirit
     Section 5-Conclusion
                    -The Call 

 

   
     


        

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