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A Contract of Marriage

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Marriage is many things, but unlike the way it is practiced today, it is not a legal contract between two parties that can be nullified on a whim simply by filing the right piece of paperwork. In fact, marriage as practiced in the Bible really has no paperwork at all.  If you’re a Christian, you’ve probably heard it said many times that marriage is a covenant and perhaps assumed that covenant is simply the Biblical word for an agreement or a contract of some type.  A covenant is a little more than that, however, when you consider that, for a covenant you are putting something forward to guarantee the fulfillment of the contract.  You have to put up collateral, and the collateral of a covenant is your own life.   In a covenant, one party offers the covenant, and they can either offer terms with the covenant, or, as God did with Abraham, the offering party can leave all of the requirements on their own end to perform.  The accepting party either agrees to the...
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Have You Received the Love of the Truth?

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  When He appeared before Pontius Pilate for judgment, Jesus Christ had a revealing exchange. Questioned by Pilate about whether He was a king, “Jesus answered, ‘You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.’ Pilate said to Him, ‘What is truth?’” (John 18:37-38). Indeed, what is truth? We live in a world so filled with lies that it can be hard to know. At times, it seems as if almost everything you hear is a lie. Politicians lie, scientists lie, doctors lie, the news media lie, “influencers” lie, and many people you interact with will simply parrot whatever lies they’ve been brainwashed into believing. Worse still, many lies seem to be mixed with an element of truth. A few elements of the narrative can often be verified as fact, causing people to believe the rest. God spoke of ancient Israel, shortly before sending her into captivity, ...
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What are Deacons?

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We’ve covered this particular topic previously on the blog , but I’m studying through the subject of church leadership again, so I thought I’d take the time to do a quick overview of the subject of deacons. There are a few major questions that pop up to create division in the body, the calendar and Holy Days being two of the main ones, ironically.    Now, as far as the leadership structure in the church goes, there is really only one level of government: the elders, who do the work of oversight.  We’re not getting into that today; we’re only going to look at what a deacon is, because many Churches have made the role of deacon into a rank above the rest of the body or a title, which it is not.  First, every man and woman should be God’s deacon. It may surprise you to hear me say that, given what I’ve written about men and women in the past, but it’s true.  John 12:26 NKJV - "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. ...
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