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Thoughts on Judges 3

March 4, 2010

We’re reading through Judges at Oak Tree Church, and I’m posting some observations from my daily readings here. I’d love for you to join in the discussion. Thoughts on Judges 3 These were the nations the LORD permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel– he wanted to test all those who had not [...]

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Jonah (intro)

April 7, 2009

Continuing through the Old Testament Minor Prophets, we come to the short – but packed – story of Jonah. Outside of this little book, the prophet Jonah appears in the Bible only twice. The first is an obscure reference in 2 Kings 14:25 The only other reference to Jonah is in the New Testament (Matthew [...]

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Winning friends and influencing people

February 4, 2009

No, this isn’t a review of that classic book, or the title would have started with “Book Review”. Actually, I was reading Proverbs 3 yesterday, and verses 3-4 caught my attention. Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will [...]

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Baptism, Part 5

February 3, 2009

This is the last post in a series on water baptism. In Part 1 and Part 2 we explored what water baptism is and how the early church performed it. Part 3 introduced the teaching that water baptism can provide salvation – a teaching that we thoroughly debunked in Parts 4a, 4b, and 4c. Based [...]

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Baptism, Part 4a

January 28, 2009

We’re working through a study of water baptism. In Part 1 and Part 2 we saw that water baptism in the New Testament was used as a public expression to identify a person as a believer in Jesus Christ. The early Christians baptized people by immersing them in cold, flowing water (like a river or [...]

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