God's Curse

Posted by on Jun 3, 2006 in Ask the Pastor | 0 comments A recent visitor to our website asks a very simple but very important question: “Are we still under God’s curse?” * * * * * * * * * * Dear friend, That is a question to which I’d have to give a “yes and no” answer. If we live apart from God’s grace through Christ and are left in our sins, then the answer is “yes” – we are still under...
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Playing Cards

Posted by on Mar 24, 2006 in Ask the Pastor | 0 comments Lynn, a visitor to our website, writes: “Some people make comments about ‘playing cards’ as something that’s ‘not Christian’. What does the Bible say about this?” * * * * * * * * * * Dear Lynn, Thanks for writing. First of all, we’d have to say that there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with a deck of cards. They’re simply pieces of paper...
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Dreadful Stories

Posted by on Jan 3, 2006 in Ask the Pastor | 0 comments A member of our church family writes: “I believe by faith that all of the Bible is God-breathed; but I wonder why some of the accounts were important enough to God that He would ensure them to be recorded for all history. For example, tonight I read Judges 19:1-30, which is the account of the Levite and his concubine. It was such a wicked, horrid and vulgar story. Why do you think that...
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Too Young for Communion?

Posted by on Dec 15, 2005 in Ask the Pastor | 0 comments I have heard many pastors say that one should not take communion unless one truly believes in the meaning behind the ritual. How does this apply to children? I believe that very young children cannot comprehend the depth of Christ’s sacrifice; while they can believe in God and Jesus, they are not mature enough to understand what His sacrifice means to us. 1 Corinthians 11:26 says,...
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Sins of the fathers?

Posted by on Aug 4, 2005 in Ask the Pastor | 0 comments A visitor to our website writes: “During a recent Bible study group session, we were reading 2 Chronicles 25:4; where it forbids that “the children be put to death for their fathers”. All of us recalled reading Exodus 34:7; where it says that God visits the iniquities of the fathers on the children. We’re questioning the contradiction between these two books and verses;...
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