Category: Q&A
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Why is the Apocrypha included in the Roman Catholic Bible but not in the Protestant Bible?
Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. The Apocrypha, a word meaning “secret writings,” is a collection if intertestamental works (written between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible) that were not included in the Hebrew Old Testament and do not meet the criterion for the New Testament.…
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Do Women Really Have To Remain Silent? (1 Timothy 2:12)
Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. This question was left over from a Stump the Elders panel at The Church at Sunsites and is not a new one, but it has been recently revived in our own culture and in a few societies around the world. Sadly, many…
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Do We Believe in Limited or Unlimited Atonement, and Why?
Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn This question was asked in response to something that someone either heard or read from Charles Swindoll. While I could not find anything that Swindoll said about unlimited atonement, it is clear that he is a proponent of the free grace view.…
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Why have none of the Dead Sea Scrolls Been Added to Scripture?
Ask your questions by using the contact form, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Linkedin. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran between 1947 and 1956 is one of the most significant finds for modern Christianity. In the many fragments found were manuscripts of the Biblical text, bills of sale, the Apocrypha, calendars, Biblical…
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Stump the Elders- June 2019 @ The Church at Sunsites
Before we take time this morning to answer some questions, and I wish we could get to every question that was asked, I wanted to take a moment and orient our attention toward the Good Shepherd. As a body of elders, Scripture teaches that we are under-shepherds of God’s church. That simply means that we…
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Hunger for the Explicit Word
Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn. In the sermon this last Sunday, we observed how the Bible describes and prescribes prophecy so that we know what Samuel is being ordained for as we walk through the narrative. During the course of the sermon, I made a statement that…
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Is Arminian Doctrine Heresy?
As your questions using the contact form on this site or on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. This question came from a church member of ours and I want to answer it in three parts. First, we will define what is meant by “Arminian.” Second, we will see how Arminianism has been developed and treated…
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Will there be intimate relationships in heaven?
Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter This question came through the blog last week. The question referenced a book by Patricia Beattie Jung, which explores the possibility of sexual relationships in heaven and, by indication of the title, hopes to apply heavenly sex as an ethic by which earthly…
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Is It Okay To Make Vows To God?
Submit your questions using the contact page, on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. This question came up as we have been walking through Scripture together on Sunday mornings. We spent three Sundays preaching verse-by-verse through 1 Samuel 1. This is the story of God’s miraculous work in and through Hannah. While the main idea in the…
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Everyone is forcing his way into the Gospel?
Submit your questions using the contact page, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Well, it finally happened. Someone asked a question through the blog and I had to pull out my Greek textbooks and relearn the passive and middle indicative. I know, that means much to you. You don’t care about the indicative mood! The question…