Confession of Sin

While you do not lose your salvation each time
you sin, your personal growth and effectiveness
are stifled as long as there is a rift in your
fellowship with God. This rift is healed when
you personally confess to God the sin which
caused the breach.

Doctrine of Confession of Sin:  https://goo.gl/78qLvT

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Warren Doud
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On Being a Busybody

Plutarch, On Being a Busybody: “Just as a cook prays for a good crop of young animals, and fishermen for a good haul of fish, in the same way a busybody prays for a good crop of calamities or a good haul of difficulties that he, like a cook or fisherman, may always have something to fish out and butcher.”

A busybody is a person who inserts himself uninvited into some else’s life, who meddles or pries into the affairs of others. The Bible is very clear that this is wrong, totally inappropriate behavior, especially in a local church congregation.

Synonyms for “busybody”: meddler; interloper; quidnunc; kibitzer; buttinsky. (You probably have more synonyms of your own.)

Full doctrinal study:  https://goo.gl/9kAswC 

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Spirituality vs Christianity

Understanding the difference between spirituality and carnality, and learning how to live as a spiritual Christian, is the most important aspect of Christian living!

Doctrinal study by Bob Bolender, Austin Bible Church, Austin, Texas.

https://goo.gl/Xkkazs

Shi'ite and Sunni Belief and Practice

.. a comparison of Islamic Shi’ite and Sunni belief and practice.  Very much of current interest.

https://goo.gl/BX9S0L

The Hazards of Negative Volition

The apostle Paul issued a stern warning to mature Christian believers living at Ephesus when he told them to beware of falling into a state of indifference to, or antagonism to, the word of God. He stated that if they were to become to become negative to the Lord's teachings, their lives would very quickly become indistinguishable from those of unbelievers in terms of fruitfulness and Christian character.

Ephesians 4:17-19
"This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness."

Link to article: https://goo.gl/zokim9

Warren Doud

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